Mazumder, Rajit K. - From Loyalty to Dissent: Punjabis from the Great War to World War II
Keywords:
Ghadar | Punjabis | rural loyalty | World War II
ISFWWS-Keywords:
India | Home fronts | The French and British Empires | Politics | Soldiers and Combat | Violence against civilians
Abstract:
This chapter discusses the unique relationship between communities recruited from Punjab and the colonial state in British India between c.1914 and c.1947. It demonstrates the loyalty of enlisted groups, reciprocating decades of favourable treatment by t…