The Indian Army in the two World Wars / edited by Kaushik Roy.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

List of Maps; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Warfare, Society and the Indian Army duringthe Two World Wars; Section I The Indian Army and Conventional Warfare; Chapter One The Indian Cavalry Divisions in Somme: 1916; Chapter Two Command in the Indian Expeditionary Force D:Mesopotamia, 1915-16; Chapter Three Logistics of the Indian Expeditionary Force Din Mesopotamia: 1914-18; Chapter Four The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917-18: An Imperial Turning Point.

Chapter Five The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force:Palestine 1918Chapter Six Indian Cavalry from the First World War till theThird Afghan War; Chapter Seven From the Desert Sands to the Burmese Jungle:The Indian Army and the Lessons of North Africa, September 1939-November 1942; Chapter Eight The War in Burma, 1942-1945: The 7/10thBaluch Experience; Chapter Nine The Officer Corps and the Training of the IndianArmy with Special Reference to Lieutenant-GeneralFrancis Tuker; Chapter Ten The Prime Minister and the Indian Army's Last War.

Section II The Indian Army and Internal Security of IndiaChapter Eleven The Indian Army and Civil Disorder: 1919-22; Chapter Twelve The Indian Army and Internal Security: 1919-1946; Section III Warfare, Society and the Indian Army; Chapter Thirteen Morale of the Indian Army in the Mesopotamia Campaign: 1914-17; Chapter Fourteen Army, Ethnicity and Society in British India; Chapter Fifteen Allies to a Declining Power: The Martial Races, the Second World War and the End of the BritishEmpire in South Asia; Chapter Sixteen From Loyalty to Dissent: Punjabis from the GreatWar to World War II.

Chapter Seventeen "Breaking the Chains with Which We Were Bound":The Interrogation Chamber, the Indian National Army and the Negation of Military Identities, 1941-1947Select Bibliography; General Index; Military Unit Index.

There is no single volume which covers the Indian Army{u2019}s experiences during the two World Wars. And this is what the present edited volume attempts to do. This collection of 17 essays analyze the army as an institution and also touch upon the cultural ethos of the army and related social issues. Thus, this edited volume is a cross between {u2018}traditional military history{u2019} (study of campaigns, tactics, leadership) and {u2018}new military history{u2019} (impact of warfare on society and culture). While some of the essays take a pan Indian perspective, a few essays also focus on those regions within India (like Punjab) which were intimately related with the army. A few contributors also turn the spotlight on the overseas theatres like Mesopotamia, France and Burma, where the Indian Army played a very important role.