Torn between the nation and the world: D. F. Karaka and Indian journalism in the Second World War
Journal: Modern Asian Studies
Year: 2023

Abstract Focusing on wartime journalism and nonfiction, this article analyses how nationalist Indians made sense of the war’s political and moral causes and goals, and how such understandings shaped the war’s longer historical resonance in India. The article centres on the wartime publications of the writer and journalist Dosabhai Framji Karaka, juxtaposing them with those of his colleagues in the nationalist newspaper, the Bombay Chronicle . Tracing the unfolding of the war through Karaka’s eye