The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War

The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced a volunteer army of two million - the largest in world history. This account reveals the hidden history of the country during the conflict. Through the voices of ordinary people - soldiers nurses peasants labourers and prostitutes - it shows how mobilization introduced seismic economic social and cultural change that shaped the war hastened the unravelling of the British Empire and set the course of Indias future.