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Summary:

"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, 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." -- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 'Only connect': fragments, feeling and form
• The imperial-nationalist self: anti-discrimination, aspiration and anxiety
• Sonorous fields: recruitment, resistance and recitative in Punjab
• Five shades of 'brown': the Sepoy body in Western visual culture
• Imperial antibiotic: the Indian Sepoy in British war writing
• 'Life-writing' from below: letters, poems, prayers and songs of Sepoys in Europe, 1914-1918
• 'Their lives have become ours': occupation, captivity and lateral contact in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918
• Transnational live: peripheral visions of the war
• Literary imaginings: from Tagore and Naidu to Guleri, Nazrul and Nand Singh
• Across the black waters: emotion, experience and 'Pigeon-English'
• Post-war world and 'the future of all humanity': Aurobindo, Iqbal and Tagore
• The colour and contours of war memory.

Author/Creator:

Das, Santanu , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

India, Empire, and First World War culture: writings, images, and songs [by Das, S.]

Subjects:

World War, 1914-1918 — India

World War, 1914-1918 — Social aspects — India

World War, 1914-1918 — Participation, East Indian

World War, 1914-1918 — Literature and the war

World War, 1914-1918 — Songs and music

India — Armed Forces — Recruiting, enlistment, etc. — History

India — Social life and customs — 20th century

India — Civilization — 20th century

World War (1914-1918)

1900-1999

War and literature

Recruiting and enlistment

Manners and customs

Civilization

Social aspects

India

Genres:

History

Songs and music

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-454) and index.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 466 pages, 4 unnumered pages of plated : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

DS480.4 .D35 2018

ISBNs:

9781107081581 (hardcover)
1107081580 (hardcover)
9781107441590 (paperback)
1107441595 (paperback)
9781108628976 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018287295

OCLC Numbers:

1053796209