Indian Soldiers in the First World War: Re-visiting a Global Conflict (War and Society in South Asia) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0367688107 ISBN 13: 9780367688103

Verlag: Routledge India, 2020

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This book explores the lives and social histories of Indians soldiers who fought in the First World War. It focuses on their motivations, experiences, and lives after returning from service to present a more complete picture of Indian participation in the war.

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Ashutosh Kumar is a historian of 'Global South' and Director of Centre for Alternative Studies in Social Sciences (CASSS), New Delhi. He has been a fellow at various prestigious institutions of the world including Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, the Centre for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University and Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. He has published many books, and articles in international peer reviewed journals including, Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830-1920', 2017.

Claude Markovits is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. A historian of modern India, with a particular interest in the economic and social history of the colonial era, he authored many books and articles in English and in French. Amongst his English publications are Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 1931-39: the indigenous capitalist class and the rise of the Congress Party (1985), The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama (2000) , The Un-Gandhian Gandhi: The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma (2003), Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs : Indian Business in the Colonial Era (2008) and India and the World : A History of Connections c. 1750-c. 2000 (forthcoming). His French publications include a history of the Indian Expeditionary Force in France during World War I entitled De l'Indus à la Somme: les Indiens en France pendant la Grande Guerre (2018).

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• Verlag: Routledge India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367688107
• ISBN 13: 9780367688103
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
• Herausgeber: Kumar Ashutosh, Markovits Claude
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