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India, Empire, and First World War Culture : Writings, Images, and Songs / Santanu Das, King's College London.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2018.Description: xxiii, 466 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781107081581
  • 1107081580
  • 9781107441590
  • 1107441595
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 940.354 23 DAS
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-454) and index.

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