India, Empire, and First World War Culture :
Das, Santanu,
India, Empire, and First World War Culture : Writings, Images, and Songs / Santanu Das, King's College London. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2018. - xxiii, 466 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-454) and index.
Introduction; Part I. The Restless Home Front 1. The imperial-nationalist self: anti-discrimination, aspiration, and anxiety 2. Sonorous fields: recruitment, resistance, and recitative in the Punjab Part II. Race and Representation 3. Five shades of brown: the sepoy-body in visual culture 4. Imperial antibiotic: sepoy and the Raj Part III. The Sepoy Heart 5. Touching feeling: letters, poems, prayers, and songs of sepoys in Europe 1914-18 6. 'Their lives have become ours': occupation, captivity, and lateral contact in Mesopotamia 1914-1918 7. Transnational lives and peripheral visions; Part IV. Literary and Intellectual Cultures 8. Literary imaginings 9. The Indian English war novel: Across the Black Waters 10. Post-war world and 'the future of mankind': Aurobindo, Iqbal, and Tagore.
Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914-1918 conflict and their socio-cultural, visual, and literary worlds. Around 1.5 million Indians were recruited, of whom over a million served abroad. Das draws on a variety of fresh, unusual Read more.
9781107081581 1107081580 9781107441590 1107441595
World War (1914-1918)
1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
Social aspects.
War and literature.--India.--Social aspects--India.--Participation, East Indian.--Literature and the war.--Songs and music.
India.
Music.
940.354 / DAS
India, Empire, and First World War Culture : Writings, Images, and Songs / Santanu Das, King's College London. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2018. - xxiii, 466 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-454) and index.
Introduction; Part I. The Restless Home Front 1. The imperial-nationalist self: anti-discrimination, aspiration, and anxiety 2. Sonorous fields: recruitment, resistance, and recitative in the Punjab Part II. Race and Representation 3. Five shades of brown: the sepoy-body in visual culture 4. Imperial antibiotic: sepoy and the Raj Part III. The Sepoy Heart 5. Touching feeling: letters, poems, prayers, and songs of sepoys in Europe 1914-18 6. 'Their lives have become ours': occupation, captivity, and lateral contact in Mesopotamia 1914-1918 7. Transnational lives and peripheral visions; Part IV. Literary and Intellectual Cultures 8. Literary imaginings 9. The Indian English war novel: Across the Black Waters 10. Post-war world and 'the future of mankind': Aurobindo, Iqbal, and Tagore.
Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914-1918 conflict and their socio-cultural, visual, and literary worlds. Around 1.5 million Indians were recruited, of whom over a million served abroad. Das draws on a variety of fresh, unusual Read more.
9781107081581 1107081580 9781107441590 1107441595
World War (1914-1918)
1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918
Social aspects.
War and literature.--India.--Social aspects--India.--Participation, East Indian.--Literature and the war.--Songs and music.
India.
Music.
940.354 / DAS