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Callahan, Raymond - The Prime Minister and the Indian Army’s Last War

Keywords:

Indian Army | Indianization | Prime Minister | Raj | Winston Churchill | World War

Abstract:

This chapter sketches out to the degree to which Winston Churchill as the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense shaped - and at times distorted - the last great martial effort of the Raj. Churchill's relationship to India at war can be broken into two areas for consideration: his impact on Indian politics and governance during the war, and his strategic direction of the Indian war …