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Author | : Patrick Rose |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317027639 |
The sheer size and influence of the British Indian Army, and its major role in the Allied War effort between 1939 and 1945 on behalf of a country from which it was seeking independence, maintains its fascination as a subject for a wide variety of historians. This volume presents a range of papers examining the Indian Army experience from the outbreak of world war in 1939 to the partition of India in 1947. With contributions from many of those at the forefront of the study of the Indian Army and Commonwealth history, the book focuses upon a period of Indian Army history not well covered by modern scholarship. As such it makes a substantial contribution across a range of subject areas, presenting a compendium of chapters examining Indian Army participation in the Second World War from North Africa to Burma, plus a variety of other topics including the evolution of wartime training, frontier operations, Churchill and the Indian Army, the Army's role in the development of post-war British counterinsurgency practice, and of particular note, several chapters examining aspects of the partition in 1947. As such, the book offers a fascinating insight into one of the most important yet least understood military forces of the twentieth century. It will be of interest not only to those seeking a fuller understanding of past campaigns, but also to those wishing to better understand the development and ethos of the present day military forces of the Indian subcontinent.
Author | : Patrick Rose |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317027647 |
The sheer size and influence of the British Indian Army, and its major role in the Allied War effort between 1939 and 1945 on behalf of a country from which it was seeking independence, maintains its fascination as a subject for a wide variety of historians. This volume presents a range of papers examining the Indian Army experience from the outbreak of world war in 1939 to the partition of India in 1947. With contributions from many of those at the forefront of the study of the Indian Army and Commonwealth history, the book focuses upon a period of Indian Army history not well covered by modern scholarship. As such it makes a substantial contribution across a range of subject areas, presenting a compendium of chapters examining Indian Army participation in the Second World War from North Africa to Burma, plus a variety of other topics including the evolution of wartime training, frontier operations, Churchill and the Indian Army, the Army's role in the development of post-war British counterinsurgency practice, and of particular note, several chapters examining aspects of the partition in 1947. As such, the book offers a fascinating insight into one of the most important yet least understood military forces of the twentieth century. It will be of interest not only to those seeking a fuller understanding of past campaigns, but also to those wishing to better understand the development and ethos of the present day military forces of the Indian subcontinent.
Author | : Lieut-Colonel E W C Sandes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-01-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781474536998 |
A very thorough and readable history for the WW2 period: the work of the corps at home and overseas, and the impact of Partition. The maps, and detailed index, are exceptionally helpful. The Indian Engineers were a part of every division in the army. The Engineers corps started the war with two army troops companies, 11 field companies and one field park company. Expansion during the war took the totals of Engineers to five army troops companies, 67 field companies, six independent field squadrons, 20 field park companies and two independent field park squadrons. The Indian Army began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men. By the end of the war it had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945. Serving in divisions of infantry, armour and a fledgling airborne force, they fought on three continents, in Africa, Europe and Asia. The Indian Army fought in Ethiopia against the Italian Army, in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia against both the Italian and German Army, and, after the Italian surrender, against the German Army in Italy. However, the bulk of the Indian Army was committed to fighting the Japanese Army, first during the British defeats in Malaya and the retreat from Burma to the Indian border; later, after resting and refitting for the victorious advance back into Burma, as part of the largest British Empire army ever formed.
Author | : Chris Kempton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780854202386 |
Author | : Chris Kempton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2004-04 |
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ISBN | : 9780854202331 |
Author | : Daniel Marston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521899753 |
A unique examination of the role of the Indian army in post-World War II India in the run-up to Partition. Daniel Marston draws upon extensive archival research and interviews with veterans of the events of 1947 to provide fresh insight into the final days of the British Raj.
Author | : James Gordon Elliott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Author | : Kaushik Roy |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2011-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 900418550X |
This collection of seventeen essays based on archival data breaks new ground as regards the contribution of the Indian Army in British war effort during the two World Wars around various parts of the globe.
Author | : Chris Kempton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2004-04-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780854202232 |
Author | : James Gordon Elliott |
Publisher | : London : Cassell [1965] |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : India |
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