The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars: Between Self and Sepoy

TitleThe Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars: Between Self and Sepoy
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsSingh, Gajendra
Number of Pages295
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
CityNew York
Abstract

In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How much did their testimonies realize and reflect their own fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial policemen? The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters, Gajendra Singh traces the evolution of military identities under the British Raj and considers how those identities became embattled in the praxis of soldiers' war testimonies: chiefly letters, depositions and interrogations. It becomes a story of mutiny and obedience; of horror, loss and silence.

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