Description
This book addresses the important global role of the Indian Army during
the First World War. It is an academic reassessment of the army by both
established and early career scholars. It looks at the historiography of the
army—taking into account recent work (particularly on the Western Front
in 1914–1915). This edited volume covers the traditional areas of the Indian
Army in France and Belgium, Palestine, Mesopotamia and the defence of
the Suez Canal. There are also chapters on combined operations; Indian
prisoners of war in Germany; the expansion of the officer corps; the role of
Islam in the army; the Sikh experience and the demobilisation of the army,
1918–1923. Three additional chapters are related to the theme, on the
mobilisation of the equine army, the Territorial Army in India and Winston Churchill’s portrayal of the Indian
Army during the Gallipoli campaign in his account World Crisis.