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  title info:
    title: Farthest field
    sub title: an Indian story of the Second World War
  name:
    name part: Karnad, Raghu
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    edition: First American edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 300 pages : maps ; 25 cm
  abstract: "A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family. A young man from the sleepy south Indian coast, sensing adventure and opportunity, follows his brothers-in-law into the army--and onto the front lines of India's Second World War. His army fights for the British empire, even as his countrymen fight for freedom from it, and Indian soldiers end up on both sides of the vast conflict. The narrative travels from Madras to Eritrea, Iraq, and Burma, unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and devastated by its violence. The Farthest Field reveals how the war transformed India, its army, and the British empire that had ruled the country for so long and would, barely two years after the end of the war, abandon it to the horrors of partition. In penetrating nonfiction prose, Raghu Karnad retrieves from obscurity the epic of India's Second World War--a war the world reveres, but India would choose to forget"--Provided by publisher.
  abstract: A nonfiction epic narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family describes India's experience of World War II, discussing how the country, its army, and the ruling British Empire were transformed by the war.
  table of contents: Part one: Home. Everybody's friend : Calicut, 1936-39 ; Hukm Hai : Madras, 1939-40 ; Savages of the Stone Age : Miranshah, November 1941 ; The centre of the world : Madras, February 1942 ; Madras must not burn : April 1942 ; Things sacred between us : Mhow, August 1942 ; Do or die : Thal, August-October 1942 ; The King's own : Roorkee, August-December 1942 -- Part two: West. Second field : Baghdad, March 1943 ; The Jemadars' story : Eritrea and Libya, 1940-41 ; The lieutenant's story : El Alamein, July-November 1942 ; Kings of Persia : Baghdad, April 1943 -- Part three: East. Enter the hurricane : Imphal, May 1943 ; No heroes : Madras, May-June 1943 ; Fascines and Gabions : Calcutta, October 1943 ; The jungle book : Arakan, December 1943-March 1944 ; Fight with your ghost : Kohima and Jotsoma, April 1944 ; The cremation ground : Kohima, April 1944 ; The elephant : Tiddim Road, June-October 1944 ; The road ahead : Madras, November 1945.
  note: Raghu Karnad.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mugaseth, Bobby
      name part: 1919-1944
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Soldiers
    geographic: India
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Great Britain.
      name part: Army.
      name part: British Indian Army
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Great Britain.
      name part: Army.
      name part: British Indian Army
    topic: History
    temporal: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mugaseth, Bobby
      name part: 1919-1944
    topic: Family
  subject:
    topic: Social change
    geographic: India
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: War and society
    geographic: India
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: India
    geographic: Calicut
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: India
    geographic: Chennai
  classification: D767.6 .K346 2015
  classification: 940.54/1241092391411
  classification: 940.541254/092
  identifier: 9780393248098
  identifier: 0393248097
  identifier: 2015018733
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150518
    record change date: 20170928134047.0
    record identifier: in00003588664
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng