The Indian Army, 1939-47

This volume examines the Indian Army between the outbreak of war in 1939 and the partition of India in 1947. With contributions from many of those at the forefront of the study of the Indian Army and Commonwealth history, the book makes a substantial contribution to a range of subjects, from the Indian Army's participation in the Second World War, to the evolution of wartime training, frontier operations, and its role in the development of post-war counterinsurgency practice. The volume concludes with several chapters examining the impact and legacy of Partition in 1947.

Patrick Rose received a PhD in War Studies from Kinga€?s College London for a thesis examining command culture in the British and Indian Armies between 1919 and 1945. He is a West Point Fellow in military history, and co-editor and contributing author of the forthcoming book Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945. He is currently a senior analyst in the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory of the UK Ministry of Defence. A member of the Defence Policy Analysis Group, he has recently deployed to support NATO campaign planning in Afghanistan. Alan Jeffreys is Senior Curator, Social History at the Imperial War Museum. He is the author of The British Army in the Far East, 1941-45 (2005) and Training the Indian Army, 1939-45 (Ashgate, forthcoming). He is also co-editor of an academic history series entitled 'India at War'.