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Informationen zum Autor Hugh Purcell worked for many years producing history programmes for BBC Radio and Television. Prominent among them were 'The Roads to War', the obituary of Oswald Mosley and the BAFTA-winning 'American Civil War'. His previous books include Lloyd George, The Spanish Civil War, Revolutionary War and a biography of Tom Wintringham, The Last English Revolutionary. He is Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and an FRSA. Klappentext Bikaner was Oone of the last Indian princes to play an important part in global politics Zusammenfassung The story of the Indian soldiery in the Great War needs a new telling and one important chapter of it will be about the Maharajah of Bikaner: Dashing, autocratic and a formidable public speaker, commander his own camel corps, he fought on the Western Front and in Egypt, became the first Indian general in the British Indian army. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Prologue: 1919 Part I: The Life and the Land 1. The Maharaja of Bikaner and the Indian Princes 2. The Indian Army in the First World War 3. SP Sinha and the Indian National Congress 4. The Imperial War Cabinet and Conference! March-May 1917 5. The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms Part II: The Paris Peace Conference 6. The Call to Peace 7. The Paris Peace Conference - India and The League of Nations 8. The Paris Peace Conference - India and the Ottoman Empire Part III: The Legacy 9. Reform and Revolt! 1919-24 10. Towards Independence: the Rise of the Congress Party 11. Towards Independence: Bikaner and the Fall of the Princes Notes Chronology Further Reading Picture Sources Index ...
