Leadership in the Indian Army
Leadership in the Indian Army

Author: V.K. Singh

Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 935708360X

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Unlike traditional biographies of combat leaders, which focus primarily on military operations or regimental histories, in this book Major General V.K. Singh concentrates on personal accounts, anecdotes and reminiscences in order to highlight these leaders’ personalities, and to draw out the human face behind the military facade. Through the stories of these twelve military leaders, the book also throws new light on several historical events and the role of political leaders during India’s fight for independence and the partitioning of the subcontinent. He gives an overview of India’s military history after independence, including major operations, and describes many hitherto unknown or little-known incidents concerning smaller operations like Nathu La in 1967 and Goa in 1962. Written records tend to glorify the actions of battalions as well as individuals, Singh says, magnifying achievements while suppressing the mistakes and glossing over failures. Leadership in the Indian Army provides a truer picture of the strength of character and convictions of each of these leaders. A must-read for anyone interested in India’s military history.

Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914
Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914

Author: Richard Holmes

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2011-10-06

Total Pages: 856

ISBN-13: 0007370342

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Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.

Soldiers of Empire
Soldiers of Empire

Author: Tarak Barkawi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-08

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1107169585

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Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.

The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars
The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars

Author: Gajendra Singh

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-01-16

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1780938209

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In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial policemen? The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters, Gajendra Singh traces the evolution of military identities under the British Raj and considers how those identities became embattled in the praxis of soldiers' war testimonies – chiefly letters, depositions and interrogations. It becomes a story of mutiny and obedience; of horror, loss and silence. This book tells that story and is an important contribution to histories of the British Empire, South Asia and the two World Wars.

Army of Empire
Army of Empire

Author: George Morton-Jack

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2018-12-04

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 0465094074

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Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I While their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite their sacrifices, Indian troops received mixed reactions from their allies and their enemies alike-some were treated as liberating heroes, some as mercenaries and conquerors themselves, and all as racial inferiors and a threat to white supremacy. Yet even as they fought as imperial troops under the British flag, their broadened horizons fired in them new hopes of racial equality and freedom on the path to Indian independence. Drawing on freshly uncovered interviews with members of the Indian Army in Iraq and elsewhere, historian George Morton-Jack paints a deeply human story of courage, colonization, and racism, and finally gives these men their rightful place in history.