India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945 - Tapa blanda

Raghavan, Srinath

 
9780241957592: India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945
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ISBN 10: 0241957591 ISBN 13: 9780241957592
Editorial: Penguin Books, 2017

Sinopsis

SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016

’Authoritative expansive and incisive...helps restore India to the global twentieth century’ Sunil Khilnani

Between 1939 and 1945 India changed to an extraordinary extent. Millions of Indians suddenly found themselves as soldiers fighting in Europe and North Africa but also - something simply never imagined - against a Japanese army threatening to invade eastern India. Many more were pulled into the vortex of wartime mobilization.

Srinath Raghavan’s compelling and original book gives both a surprising new account of the fighting and of life on the home front. For Indian nationalists the war has tended to be seen as a distraction from the quest for national independence - but Raghavan shows that in fact the war lay at the very heart of how and why colonial rule ended in South Asia.

By seeing the Second World War through Indian eyes Raghavan transforms our understanding of the conflict - with famous battles such as those in North Africa and Iraq reinterpreted as well as fascinating and little known campaigns such as the destruction of Italian northeast Africa. Time and again it was Indian troops that made Britain into a global power and as the war came to an end it was the Indian army that fought the final battles which marked the end both of the Japanese empire and of the British.

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Srinath Raghavan is professor of international relations and history at Ashoka University. He is the author of several books, including The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia (Penguin Random House India, 2018).

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Penguin Books
Año de publicación
2017
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ISBN 10 
0241957591
ISBN 13 
9780241957592
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