India at war
Subtitle: the subcontinent and the Second World War
By: Yasmin Khan
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780199753499
Subjects: War and society; East Indian Participation; World War, 1939-1945; Social conditions; Social change; History
Work titles: Raj at war
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2015 as The Raj at War by The Bodley Head"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-397) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: 1. An Empire Committed; title: 2. Peasants into Soldiers; title: 3. Into the Middle East and North Africa; title: 4. Free and Willing Human Beings; title: 5. Not a Paisa, Not a Man; title: 6. Bombed to Hell; title: 7. Money Coming, Money Coming; title: 8. An Empire Exposed; title: 9. Urban Panic; title: 10. The World at the Door; title: 11. Thirty Months Too Late; title: 12. Welcome to Bombay; title: 13. Plantations and Paddyfields; title: 14. Living Dangerously; title: 15. Scorched Earth; title: 16. The Cogs in a Watch; title: 17. Longing and Loss; title: 18. Catalyst of Change; title: 19. Man-a-Mile Road; title: 20. Insults and Discriminations; title: 21. Empires, Lost and Found; title: 22. Celebrations and Recriminations; title: 23. The Sepoy's Return; title: Chronology of Major Events .