The betrayal of popular political aspirations by the colonial state, followed by…

Initially, medical arrangements for Indian troops in France and England were poo…

This article details the historiography of South Asian involvement in the First …

Of the 1.4 million Indians recruited for the First World War, some 563,369 were …

In spite of the global turn in First World War historiography, the colour of the…

Although India was not a theatre of war, World War I produced a major inflexion …

In 1914, the Indian army was a modest colonial force of 159,134 serving Indian t…

The decades between the two world wars seethed with tumultuous and momentous eve…

India hosted a vibrant and active wartime press: one that while generally suppor…

During the First World War South Asian combatants and non-combatants were taken …

Responses to the war in British India (comprising today’s India, Pakistan, Bangl…

Revolutionary movements in India haunted the imagination of post-war British off…

Indian soldiers were sent to Europe in 1914, and some of them were to serve ther…

This article reconsiders the military role and performance of the British Empire…

Some 1.5 million Indians served in the Indian Army during World War I and, of th…

This article recovers the wartime experiences, writings, and songs of women from…

This entry explains the Amritsar Massacre of 13 April 1919. It charts the events…

During the First World War, Berlin became an organisational hub for Indian natio…

Annie Besant (1847-1933) was a British supporter of Indian nationalism. During W…

Virendranath Chattopadhyaya belonged to the transnational networks of Indian pol…

Har Dayal was one of the chief architects of a quixotically sketched blueprint t…

World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of …

Although sometimes characterized as a quixotically hatched scheme to overthrow B…

This entry historicizes myths of the Gurkha in contemporary Britain, India and N…

Hindostan was a propaganda periodical for South Asian prisoners of war in the so…

Evelyn Berkeley Howell was appointed Chief Censor of Indian military corresponde…

An Indian Expeditionary Force was sent to France and Belgium in September 1914 a…

By December 1919, India had raised a total of 877,068 combatants and 563,369 non…

The Khilafat movement was an agitation by Indian Muslims, allied with Indian nat…

Lascar seamen and other sailors from the British Empire were deployed on vessels…

The notion of “martial races” was formally developed and codified in the wake of…

Although not directly involved in military operations, Portuguese India was link…

This entry revisits the political upheavals that swept across several towns and …

Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend commanded the 6th (Poona) Division in Mesopot…

The wake of the Great War saw mobilizations against empire across the world, wit…