India in the Second World War

• Verfasst von: Gupta, Diya [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: India in the Second World War
• Titelzusatz: an emotional history
• Verf.angabe: Diya Gupta
• Verlagsort: London
• Verlag: Hurst & Company
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Illustrationen: illustrations
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 22, 2023)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-775632-4
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197694701.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Warfare and Defence
• Sach-SW: European history
• K10plus-PPN: 1868809773
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

In 1940s India, revolutionary and nationalistic feeling surged against colonial subjecthood and imperial war. Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War, while 3 million civilians were killed by the war-induced Bengal Famine, and Indian National Army soldiers fought against the British for Indian independence. This history shines a spotlight on emotions as a way of unearthing these troubled and contested experiences, exposing the personal as political. Diya Gupta draws upon photographs, letters, memoirs, novels, poetry and philosophical essays, in both English and Bengali languages, to weave a compelling tapestry of emotions felt by Indians in service and at home during the war.