India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War 9780199753499

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Автор: Khan Yasmin
Название: India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War
ISBN: 9780199753499
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0199753490
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 496
Вес: 0.73 кг.
Дата издания: 01.10.2015
Язык: English
Размер: 236 x 158 x 41
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: США
Описание: World War II was a global catastrophe. Far broader than just the critical struggle between Allies and Axis, its ramifications were felt throughout the world. It was a time of social relocation, reorienting ideas of patriotism and geographical attachment, and forcing the movement of people across oceans and continents. In India at War, Yasmin Khan offers an account of Indias role in the conflict, one that takes into consideration the social, economic, and cultural changes that occurred in South Asia between 1939 and 1945-and reveals how vital the Commonwealths contribution was to the war effort.
Khans sweeping work centers on the lives of ordinary Indian people, exploring the ways they were affected by a cataclysmic war with origins far beyond Indian shores. In manpower alone, Indias contribution was staggering; it produced the largest volunteer army in world history, with 2.5 million men. Indians were engaged in making the raw materials and food stuffs needed by the Allies, and became involved in the construction of airstrips, barracks, hospitals, internee camps, roads and railways. Their lives were also profoundly affected by the presence of the large Allied army in the region, including not only British but American, African, and Chinese troops. Madras was bombed by the Japanese and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were occupied, while the Bengal famine of 1943-in which perhaps three million Bengalis died-was a man-made disaster precipitated by the effects of the war.
This authoritative account offers a critically important look at the contributions of colonial manpower and resources essential to sustaining the war, and emphasizes the significant ways in which the conflict shaped modern India.

India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War, Khan Yasmin