India's War

SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016''Authoritative, expansive and incisive...helps restore India to the global twentieth century'' Sunil KhilnaniBetween 1939 and 1945 ...

SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016''Authoritative, expansive and incisive...helps restore India to the global twentieth century'' Sunil KhilnaniBetween 1939 and 1945 India changed to an extraordinary extent. Millions of Indians suddenly found themselves as soldiers, fighting in Europe and North Africa but also - something simply never imagined - against a Japanese army threatening to invade eastern India. Many more were pulled into the vortex of wartime mobilization.Srinath Raghavan''s compelling and original book gives both a surprising new account of the fighti