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020			_a9781107441590
082			_a940.31 DAS-S
100			_aDas, Santanu
245			_aIndia, empire, and first world war culture : _bwritings, images, and songs / _cSantanu Das
260			_aUnited Kingdom _bCambridge University Press _c2018
300			_a466 p.
365			_aGBP _b19.99.
500			_aBased 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, streetpamphlets, letters, diaries, sound-recordings, folksongs, testimonies, poetry, essays, and fiction - to produce the first cultural and literary history, moving from recruitment tactics in villages through sepoy traces and feelings in battlefields, hospitals, and POW camps to post-war reflections on Europe and empire. Combining archival excavation in different countries across several continents with investigative readings of Gandhi, Kipling, Iqbal, Naidu, Nazrul, Tagore, and Anand, this imaginative study opens up the worlds of sepoys and labourers, men and women, nationalists, artists, and intellectuals, trying to make sense of home and the world in times of war.
650			_aWorld War (1914-1918)
650			_aSocial aspects
650			_aImperialism
650			_aIndigenous peoples
650			_aHistoriography
650			_aRace relations
650			_aEurope
650			_aArmed Forces--Colonial forces