The First World War, Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India, 1914-1924

ISBN-13: 9780367786281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 218 str.

Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury

Opis

This book presents a multifaceted picture of Indian politics at a time when total war and resurgent anticolonial activism were reshaping assumptions about state power, culture, and resistance.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction　

Chapter 2: "Those Long Months in the Hideous Flat": Recasting Indian Landscapes in Mesopotamia　

Chapter 3: Moderates and the Mother Goddess in Mesopotamia: The Bengali War Effort　

Chapter 4: Imagining Indian Landscapes after Jallianwala Bagh, 1919

Chapter 5: Conclusion: Homelands, Holy Lands, and Official Gardens of Nationalism　

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O autorze

Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury teaches in the Department of History at Queens College, the City University of New York. Her research areas are in twentieth-century world history, modern European and Indian history. She is also active in digital humanities pedagogy and training.