Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change. Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform, fighting in

"First published in Great Britain in 2015 as The Raj at War by The Bodley Head"--Title page verso.

More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian Army as part of Britain’s imperial war effort. These men fought

This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.

Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I While their story is almost always overlooked, the 1