World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia
by
Srinath Raghavan
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change. Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform, fighting in the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe and-something simply never imagined-against a Japanese army poised to invade eastern India....