Indian Army in the Two World Wars

Kaushik Roy, Ph.D. (2001) in History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, is Reader of History at Jadavpur University and Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War at Peace Research Institute Oslo. Kaushik Roy has written and edited fourteen books and forty-three essays in various peer reviewed journals and edited volumes.

• List of Maps ... ixPreface ... xiList of Abbreviations ... xiiiGlossary ... xviiNotes on Contributors ... xxiIntroduction: Warfare, Society and the Indian Army during the Two World Wars ... 1Kaushik RoySECTION ITHE INDIAN ARMY AND CONVENTIONAL WARFARE1. The Indian Cavalry Divisions in Somme: 1916 ... 33David Kenyon2. Command in the Indian Expeditionary Force D: Mesopotamia, 1915–16 ... 63Andrew Syk3. Logistics of the Indian Expeditionary Force D in Mesopotamia: 1914–18 ... 105Ross Anderson4. The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917–18: An Imperial Turning Point ... 145Dennis Showalter5. The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force: Palestine 1918 ... 165James Kitchen6. Indian Cavalry from the First World War till the Third Afghan War ... 191Kaushik Roy7. From the Desert Sands to the Burmese Jungle: The Indian Army and the Lessons of North Africa, September 1939–November 1942 ... 223Tim Moreman8. The War in Burma, 1942–1945: The 7/10th Baluch Experience ... 255Daniel Marston9. The Officer Corps and the Training of the Indian Army with Special Reference to Lieutenant-General Francis Tuker ... 285Alan Jeffreys10. The Prime Minister and the Indian Army’s Last War ... 311Raymond CallahanSECTION IITHE INDIAN ARMY AND INTERNAL SECURITY OF INDIA11. The Indian Army and Civil Disorder: 1919–22 ... 335Nick Lloyd12. The Indian Army and Internal Security: 1919–46 ... 359Rob Johnson