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India, Empire, and First World War Culture : Writings, Images, and Songs

By: Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge Univeresity Press 2020ISBN:
  • 9781108829359
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.354 DAS
Contents:
Introduction; Part I. The Restless Home Front; 1. The imperial-nationalist self: anti-discrimination, aspiration, and anxiety; 2. Sonorous fields: recruitment, resistance, and recitative in the Punjab; Part II. Race and Representation: 3. Five shades of brown: the sepoy-body in visual culture; 4. Imperial antibiotic: sepoy and the Raj; Part III. The Sepoy Heart: 5. Touching feeling: letters, poems, prayers, and songs of sepoys in Europe 1914-18; 6. 'Their lives have become ours': occupation, captivity, and lateral contact in Mesopotamia 1914-1918; 7. Transnational lives and peripheral visions; Part IV. Literary and Intellectual Cultures: 8. Literary imaginings; 9. The Indian English war novel: Across the Black Waters; 10. Post-war world and 'the future of mankind': Aurobindo, Iqbal, and Tagore
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Introduction;
Part I. The Restless Home Front;
1. The imperial-nationalist self: anti-discrimination, aspiration, and anxiety;
2. Sonorous fields: recruitment, resistance, and recitative in the Punjab;
Part II. Race and Representation:
3. Five shades of brown: the sepoy-body in visual culture;
4. Imperial antibiotic: sepoy and the Raj; Part III. The Sepoy Heart:
5. Touching feeling: letters, poems, prayers, and songs of sepoys in Europe 1914-18;
6. 'Their lives have become ours': occupation, captivity, and lateral contact in Mesopotamia 1914-1918;
7. Transnational lives and peripheral visions;
Part IV. Literary and Intellectual Cultures:
8. Literary imaginings;
9. The Indian English war novel: Across the Black Waters;
10. Post-war world and 'the future of mankind':
Aurobindo, Iqbal, and Tagore