Indian Voices of the Great War
Subtitle: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-18
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 12, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780312220617
Subjects: Military History - World War I; Military Personal Narratives; Literary Criticism; History - Military / War; Military; Asia - India; Military - Veterans; Military - World War I; Biography; History / Military / World War I; History-Asia - India; History-Military - Veterans; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General; Campaigns; Correspondence; France; India; Personal narratives, Indian; Soldiers; World War, 1914-1918
Description: "Indian soldiers served in France from 1914 to 1918. This book is a selection of their letters. By turns poignant, funny, and almost unbearably moving, these documents vividly evoke the world of the Western Front - as seen through 'subaltern' Indian eyes. The letters also bear eloquent witness to the sepoys' often unsettling encounter with Europe, and with European culture. This book helps to map the imaginative landscape of South Asia's warrior-peasant communities."--Jacket.