كتاب
The Raj at war: a people's history of India's Second World War
| العنوان: | The Raj at war: a people's history of India's Second World War |
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| المؤلفون: | Khan, Yasmin, 1977- author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | xvi, 416 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, colored maps ; 24 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | World War, 1939-1945 -- India., World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, East Indian., World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- India., Social change -- India -- History -- 20th century., War and society -- India -- History -- 20th century. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | India -- History -- 1919-1947., India -- Social conditions -- 20th century. |
| الوصف: | The Second World War was not fought by Britain, but by the British Empire. In The Raj at War Yasmin Khan has revived the many lost voices of the war fought by India, at home and abroad, creating a rich portrait of a continent at war, told by the many Indian soldiers and civilians whose lives were upturned by war. The non-combatants, the lascars, the prostitutes, nurses, refugees and peasants. We hear from: Three soldiers, imprisoned as 'traitors to the Raj', released to a hero's welcome; A small Muslim boy arrested in Lahore for singing anti-recruitment songs; The cooks on board army boats, preparing chapattis on petrol burners on deck amidst howling gales; The family huddled round the wireless listening to illicit German radio broadcasts, with the shutters closed and a servant keeping guard; and, The first Indian soldier to receive the Victoria cross, Premindra Bhagat, writing to his sweetheart Mohini. It is a narrative of loyalty and rebellion, oppression and protection. India did indeed come to the aid of its colonial master, but it was the wartime transformation of India that ultimately led to Indian independence and the partition of the subcontinent, as the Raj unravelled under the pressure of war. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Machine generated contents note: 1.An Empire Committed -- 2.Peasants into Soldiers -- 3.Into the Middle East and North Africa -- 4.Free and Willing Human Beings -- 5.Not a Paisa, Not a Man -- 6.Bombed to Hell -- 7.Money Coming, Money Coming -- 8.An Empire Exposed -- 9.Urban Panic -- 10.The World at the Door -- 11.Thirty Months Too Late -- 12.Welcome to Bombay -- 13.Plantations and Paddy Fields -- 14.Living Dangerously -- 15.Scorched Earth -- 16.The Cogs in a Watch -- 17.Longing and Loss -- 18.Catalyst of Change -- 19.The Man-a-Mile Road -- 20.Insults and Discriminations -- 21.Empires, Lost and Found -- 22.Celebrations and Recriminations -- 23.The Sepoy's Return -- Chronology of Major Events -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn917289739 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-84792-120-8 1-84792-120-5 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-397) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014443603.5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9781847921208 1847921205 |
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