India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs

by Santanu Das

Book Overview

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 sources - objects, images, rumours,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107081580
• ISBN13: 9781107081581
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 8.4"