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India in the Second World War
- An Emotional History
Engelsk Hardback
India in the Second World War
- An Emotional History
Engelsk Hardback

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Shortlisted for the 2024 Gladstone Book PrizeIn 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 captivating new 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. She brings to life an unknown sepoy in the Middle East yearning for home, and anti- fascist activist Tara Ali Baig; a disillusioned doctor on the Burma frontline, and Sukanta Bhattacharya''s modernist poetry of hunger; Mulk Raj Anand''s revolutionary home front, and Rabindranath Tagore''s critique of civilisation. This vivid book recovers a truly global history of the Second World War, revealing the crucial importance of personal documentation in challenging a traditional focus on the wartime experiences of European populations. Seen through ordinary Indian eyes, this was not the ''good'' war.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9781787389458
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1787389456
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
2 mar 2023
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
242mm
Højde:
167mm
Forlag:
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
2 mar 2023
Forfatter(e):
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