The Indian Army in the Two World Wars
Biographical note
Kaushik Roy, Ph.D. (2001) in History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, is Reader of History at Jadavpur University and Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War at Peace Research Institute Oslo. Kaushik Roy has written and edited fourteen books and forty-three essays in various peer reviewed journals and edited volumes.
Readership
All those interested in British imperial history, modern Indian history, and history of modern warfare, especially in the two World Wars.
Table of contents
List of Maps ... ix
Preface ... xi
List of Abbreviations ... xiii
Glossary ... xvii
Notes on Contributors ... xxi
Introduction: Warfare, Society and the Indian Army during the Two World Wars ... 1
Kaushik Roy
SECTION I
THE INDIAN ARMY AND CONVENTIONAL WARFARE
1. The Indian Cavalry Divisions in Somme: 1916 ... 33
David Kenyon
2. Command in the Indian Expeditionary Force D: Mesopotamia, 1915–16 ... 63
Andrew Syk
3. Logistics of the Indian Expeditionary Force D in Mesopotamia: 1914–18 ... 105
Ross Anderson
4. The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917–18: An Imperial Turning Point ... 145
Dennis Showalter
5. The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force: Palestine 1918 ... 165
James Kitchen
6. Indian Cavalry from the First World War till the Third Afghan War ... 191
Kaushik Roy
7. From the Desert Sands to the Burmese Jungle: The Indian Army and the Lessons of North Africa, September 1939–November 1942 ... 223
Tim Moreman
8. The War in Burma, 1942–1945: The 7/10th Baluch Experience ... 255
Daniel Marston
9. The Officer Corps and the Training of the Indian Army with Special Reference to Lieutenant-General Francis Tuker ... 285
Alan Jeffreys
10. The Prime Minister and the Indian Army’s Last War ... 311
Raymond Callahan
SECTION II
THE INDIAN ARMY AND INTERNAL SECURITY OF INDIA
11. The Indian Army and Civil Disorder: 1919–22 ... 335
Nick Lloyd
12. The Indian Army and Internal Security: 1919–46 ... 359
Rob Johnson
Preface ... xi
List of Abbreviations ... xiii
Glossary ... xvii
Notes on Contributors ... xxi
Introduction: Warfare, Society and the Indian Army during the Two World Wars ... 1
Kaushik Roy
SECTION I
THE INDIAN ARMY AND CONVENTIONAL WARFARE
1. The Indian Cavalry Divisions in Somme: 1916 ... 33
David Kenyon
2. Command in the Indian Expeditionary Force D: Mesopotamia, 1915–16 ... 63
Andrew Syk
3. Logistics of the Indian Expeditionary Force D in Mesopotamia: 1914–18 ... 105
Ross Anderson
4. The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917–18: An Imperial Turning Point ... 145
Dennis Showalter
5. The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force: Palestine 1918 ... 165
James Kitchen
6. Indian Cavalry from the First World War till the Third Afghan War ... 191
Kaushik Roy
7. From the Desert Sands to the Burmese Jungle: The Indian Army and the Lessons of North Africa, September 1939–November 1942 ... 223
Tim Moreman
8. The War in Burma, 1942–1945: The 7/10th Baluch Experience ... 255
Daniel Marston
9. The Officer Corps and the Training of the Indian Army with Special Reference to Lieutenant-General Francis Tuker ... 285
Alan Jeffreys
10. The Prime Minister and the Indian Army’s Last War ... 311
Raymond Callahan
SECTION II
THE INDIAN ARMY AND INTERNAL SECURITY OF INDIA
11. The Indian Army and Civil Disorder: 1919–22 ... 335
Nick Lloyd
12. The Indian Army and Internal Security: 1919–46 ... 359
Rob Johnson
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