German Soldiers in Colonial India

Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi is Guest Researcher at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, where he is working on a project entitled German Auxiliary Troops and the Colonialism Discourse of the Eighteenth-Century. This work grew out of his PhD dissertation published in 2009 as Der romantische Mythos vom Ursprung der Deutschen: Friedrich Schlegels Suche nach der indogermanischen Verbindung.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Fighting for England; Chapter 2 Reporting India; Chapter 3 Travel Books; Chapter 4 Changing Attitudes; conclusion; Conclusions;