India's War. The Making of Modern South Asia. 1939-1945

Great Britain: Allen Lane. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2016. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 9781846145414 Harcover Hardcover. First Edition. 1846145414 India's War. The Making of Modern South Asia. 1939-1945. The author's compelling and original book gives both a surprising new account of the fighting and of life on the home front. For Indian nationalists the was has tended to be seen as a distraction from the quest for national independence - but Raghavan shows that in fact the war lay at the very heart of how and why colonial rule ended in South Adia. By seeing the Second World War through Indian eyes, the author transforms our understanding of the conflict, with famous battles such as those in North Africa and Iraq reinterpreted, as well as fascinating and little-known campaigns such as the destruction of Italian northeast Eafrica. Time and again, it was Indian troops that made Britain into a global power and, as the war came to an end, it was the Indian army that fought the final battles which marked the end both of the Japanese empire and of the British. Illustrated. 554 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .