TY - BOOK AU - Roy,Kaushik TI - Indian Army and the First World War: 1914-18 T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780199093939 (ebook) : AV - D547.I5 U1 - 940.354 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Great Britain KW - Army KW - British Indian Army KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Campaigns N1 - This edition previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - The Indian Army which was the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia functioned as an imperial fire brigade force during the Great War. The 'brown warriors' of the Raj defended the British Empire from Belgium and France in the west to Singapore in the east. The Indian Army fought the Kaiserheer and the Ottoman Army in diverse theatres. Further, Indian society was mobilized to provide military and non-military manpower as well as economic assets in order to sustain the British imperial war effort UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199485659.001.0001 ER -