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BIBLIOGRAPHY COMPILATION
BOOKS
Ahuja, Ravi, ‘The Corrosiveness of Comparison: Reverberations of Indian Wartime Experiences in German Prison Camps (1915-19)’, in Liebau, et al, (eds), The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia, Leiden: Brill, 2010, pp. 131- 166.
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Bhargava, M.B.L, India’s Services in the War, Allahabad: Standard Press, 1919.
Barrett, Michèle, ‘Afterword: Death and the Afterlife: Britain's Colonies and Dominions’ in Das (ed), Race, Empire and First World War Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 301 – 320.
Chakravorty, Upendra, Indian Nationalism and the First World War, 1914-1918, Calcutta: Progressive Publishers, 1997.
Chhina, Rana TS, The Indian Distinguished Service Medal, India: Invicta, 2001.
Collins, Joyce, Dr Brighton’s Indian Patients, December 1914 - January 1916, Brighton: Brighton Books, 1997.
Corrigan, Gordon, Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-15, Staplehurst: Spellmount, 1999.
Cunningham, Col AH, A Short History of the Corps of King George’s Own Bengal Sappers and Miners During the War, 1914-1918, 1930.
Das, Santanu, Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Das, Santanu, ‘Ardour and anxiety: Politics and Literature in the Indian Homefront’ in Liebau, et al, (eds), The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia, Leiden: Brill, 2010, pp. 341 – 368.
Das, Santanu, ‘Imperialism, Nationalism and the First World War in India’ in Keene and Neiberg (eds), Finding Common Ground: New Directions in First World War Studies, Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Das, Santanu (ed), Race, Empire and First World War Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Das, Santanu, ‘Indians at Home, Mesopotamia and France, 1914–1918: Towards an Intimate History’ in Das (ed), Race, Empire and First World War Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 70 – 89.
Dendooven, Dominiek and Piet Chielens (eds), World War I: Five Continents in Flanders, Ypres: Lanoo, 2006.
Dendooven, Dominiek, ‘Living apart together: Belgian civilians and non-white troops and workers in wartime Flanders’ in Das (ed), Race, Empire and First World War Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 143 – 157.
Duckers, Peter, The British-Indian Army 1860-1914, Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications, 2003.
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Harrison, Mark, 'The Fight Against Disease in the Mesopotamian Campaign', in Liddle and Cecil (eds.), Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced, Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1996, pp. 475-89.
Harrison, Mark, 'Disease, Discipline and Dissent: The Indian Army in France and England, 1914-1915', in Harrison & Cooter (eds.), Medicine and Modern Warfare, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 1999, pp. 185-205.
Honours and Awards: Indian Army 1914-1921, London: JB Hayward and Sons, 1986.
Hypher, PP, Deeds of Valour Performed by Indian Officers and Soldiers, During the Period from 1860 to 1925, Simla: Liddell's Press, 1927.
Jones, Heather, ‘Imperial captivities: colonial prisoners of war in Germany and the Ottoman Empire, 1914–1918’ in Das (ed), Race, Empire and First World War Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 175 – 193.
Koller, Christian, ‘Representing Otherness: African, Indian, and European soldiers' letters and memoirs’ in Das (ed), Race, Empire and First World War Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 127 – 142.
Kreyer, Maj JAC and Maj G Uloth, The 28th Light Cavalry in Persia and Russian Turkistan, 1915-1920, Oxford: Slatter & Rose Ltd, 1926.
Leigh, MS, The Punjab and the War, Lahore: Superintendent Government Printing, 1922.
Liebau, Heike, ‘Kaiser Ki Jay (Long Live the Kaiser): Perceptions of World War I and the Socio-religious Movement among the Oraons in Chota Nagpur, 1914-1916’, in Liebau, et al, (eds), The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia, Leiden: Brill, 2010, pp. 251 – 276.
Markovits, Claude, ‘Indian Soldiers' Experiences in France during World War I : Seeing Europe from the Rear of the Front’ in Liebau, et al, (eds), The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia, Leiden: Brill, 2010, pp. 29 – 54.
Merewether, Lt Col JWB and Sir F Smith, The Indian Corps in France, London: John Murray, 1918.
Omissi, David (ed), Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.
Omissi, David, The Sepoy and the Raj: The Indian Army, 1860-1940, London: Macmillan, 1994.
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Palit, D.K, Saga of An Indian I.M.S. Officer - The Life and Times of Lt Col AN Palit, OBE 1883-1972, New Delhi: United Service Institution of India, 2006.
Perkins, Roger, Regiments: Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth, 1758-1993, A Critical Bibliography of their Published Histories, Wiltshire: Antony Rowe Ltd, 1994.
Pradhan, S.D, Indian Army In East Africa 1914 – 1918, New Delhi: National Book Organisation, 1991.
Rafiullah, Mohammed, Gwalior’s Part in the War, London: Hazell, Watson & Viney, 1920.
Ramnath, Maia, Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire, Berkeley+ and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011.
Rowcroft, CH, With Hodson’s Horse in Palestine, Bombay: Thacker & Co Ltd, 1919.
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Secretariat and other Sources, Patiala and the Great War: A Brief History of the Services of the Premier Punjab State, London: The Medici Society Ltd, 1923.
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PAPERS
Barrett, Michele, 2007, ‘Subalterns at War: First World War Colonial Forces and the Politics of the Imperial War Graves Commission’, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 9(3), 451-474.
Beckett, Ian FW, 1984, ‘The Singapore Mutiny of February 1915’, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, LXII, pp 132-153.
Fischer Tine, Harald, 2007, “Indian Nationalism and the ‘World Forces’: Transnational and Diasporic Dimensions of the Indian Freedom Movement on the Eve of the First World War,” Journal of Global History, 2(3), pp. 325-344.
Ganachari, Aravind, 2005, ‘First World War: Purchasing Indian Loyalties: Imperial Policy of Recruitment and 'Rewards'’, Economic and Political Weekly, 40(8), pp. 779-788.
Gardner, Nikolas, 2004, ‘Sepoys and the Siege of Kut-al-Amara, December 1915-April 1916’, War In History, 11(3), pp. 307-326.
Gardner, Nikolas, 2013, ‘Morale and Discipline in a Multiethnic Army: The Indian Army in Mesopotamia (1914–1917)’, The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 4(1), pp. 1 – 20.
Greenhut, Jeffrey, 1981, ‘Race, Sex and War: the Impact of Race and Sex on Morale and Health Services for the Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914’, Military Affairs, 45(2), pp. 71 – 74.
Greenhut, Jeffrey, 1983, ‘The Imperial Reserve: The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-15’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 12(1), pp. 54 – 73.
Jack, George Morton, 2006, ‘The Indian Army on the Western Front, 1914–1915: A Portrait of Collaboration’, War in History, 13(3), pp. 329-362.
Jain, Anurag, 2007, ‘Rudyard Kipling and The Eyes of Asia: Recruiting the Voices of Indian Soldiers for WWI Propaganda’, International World War One Studies Conference, Washington.
Jeffery, Keith, 1981, ‘‘An English Barrack in the Oriental Seas'? India in the Aftermath of the First World War’, Modern Asian Studies, 15(03), pp 369-386.
Kelly, Saul, 2013, ‘‘Crazy in the Extreme’? The Silk Letters Conspiracy’, Middle Eastern Studies, 49(2), pp. 162-178.
Levine, Philippa, 1998, "Battle Colors: Race, Sex, and Colonial Soldiery in World War I", Journal of Women's History, 9(4), pp. 104-130.
Manjapra, Kris K, 2006, "The Illusions of Encounter: Muslim ‘Minds’ and Hindu Revolutionaries in First World War Germany and After,” Journal of Global History, 1(3), pp. 363-382.
Martin, Gregory, 1986, ‘The influence of racial attitudes on British policy towards India during the First World War’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 14(2), pp. 91-113.
Meyers, Jeffrey, 1971, ‘The Politics of "A Passage to India"’, Journal of Modern Literature, 1(3), pp. 329-338
Omissi, David, 2007, 'Europe Through Indian Eyes: Indian Soldiers Encounter England and France, 1914-1918', The English Historical Review, CXXII (496), pp. 371 – 396.
Robinson, Catherine, 1996, ‘Neither East nor West: Some Aspects of Religion and Ritual in the Indian Army of the Raj’, Religion, 26(1), pp. 37-47.
Singha, Radhika, 2007, ‘Finding Labor from India for the War in Iraq: The Jail Porter and Labor Corps, 1916-1920’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 49(2), pp. 412-445.
Tinker, Hugh, 1968, ‘India in the First World War and after’, Journal of Contemporary History, 3(4), pp. 89-107
VanKoski, Susan, 1995, ‘Letters Home, 1915-1916: Punjabi Soldiers Reflect on War and Life in Europe and their Meanings for Home and Self’, International Journal of Punjab Studies, 2(1), pp. 43- 63.
Visram, Rozina, 1989, ‘The First World War and Indian Soldiers', Indo-British Review XVI, pp. 17-26.
Woods, Philip, 1995, ‘Film Propaganda in India, 1914–23’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 15(4): pp. 543–53.
DOCTORAL THESIS
Jain, Anurag, The Relationship Between Ford, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Wells and British Propaganda of the First World War, Doctoral thesis, Queen Mary University of London
Jarboe, Andrew Tait, Soldiers of empire: Indian Sepoys In and Beyond the Imperial Metropole during the First World War, 1914-1919, Doctoral thesis, Northeastern University
http://iris.lib.neu.edu/history_diss/11