India, empire, and First World War culture : writings, images, and songs / Santanu Das.

Das, Santanu
Call Number
940.3/54
Author
Das, Santanu, author.
Title
India, empire, and First World War culture : writings, images, and songs / Santanu Das.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 466 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Sep 2018).
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.
Subject
War and society India History 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 India.
World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects.
World War, 1914-1918 Literature and the war.
India Politics and government 1857-1919.
Multimedia
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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.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Sep 2018).
Subject
War and society India History 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 India.
World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects.
World War, 1914-1918 Literature and the war.
India Politics and government 1857-1919.
Multimedia