Status Updates From Indias War

I picked this up just as I was leaving the library having decided I did not find anything I really wanted to read. One page into the cover and I was hooked. It’s an aspects of Indian history that no one focuses on - the WW2 years are either about the traditional actors, or in India about the freedom movement. Yet Indian participation in the war had profound effects on both - something I hope to better understand.

Diving deep into the Indian army campaigns that fought in Asia and Africa in the Second World War.However, this book aims to go one step beyond this front'? How did gearing up for total war, and the rapid re-purposing of the Indian state affected the economy and impacted lives of many Indians who were pulled into the vortex of wartime mobilization.

Documenting trials of Imperial Indian armed forces in Africa and Middle East during world war 2.

The relaxation of the Martial Races theory and contribution of Dalits and Adivasis to British Indian Army recruitment during WWII is mentioned.