The British Empire at War Research Group

India and the Second World War Workshop

Kellogg College Oxford 1000-1730 17 January 2013

0930 Arrival

1000 Welcome from Ashley Jackson and Yasmin Khan

1030 Alan Jeffreys (Imperial War Museum) ‘Training the Indian Army during the Second World War’

1100 Coffee

1130 Andrew Muldoon (Metropolitan State University Denver) ‘The British Army and Colonial Prestige in Wartime India’

1200 Yasmin Khan (Kellogg College Oxford) ‘Women in India’s Second World War’

1230 Vipul Dutta (King’s College London) ‘The Making and Unmaking of Indian Armed Forces Institutions, 1940-1950’

1300 Buffet lunch

1345 Alexander Wilson (King’s College London) ‘The Indian Army in Africa and the Mediterranean, 1939-45’

1415 Catherine Wilson (Hull) ‘Churchill and the Indian Army’

1445 Antonia Strachey (Nuffield College Oxford) ‘The Political Economy of Food in Second World War India’

1515 Tim Hicks (Birmingham) ‘The Indian Army: An Institution Under Stress, 1939-1947’

1545 Tea

1615 Tarak Barkawi (New School for Social Research, New York) ‘Soldiers of Empire: Army and Society in Postcolonial Perspective’

1645 Anuradha Bhattacharjee (Jamia Milia Islamia) ‘The History of Polish Refugees in India, 1942-48’ (presented by Ashley Jackson on Anuradha’s behalf)

Pub

We are grateful for the interaction of a number of scholars who work on aspects of India and the Second World War who could not join us today, but who support this initiative, including David Omissi (Hull), Steven Wilkinson (Yale), Rob Johnson (Oxford), Daniel Spence (University of the Free State), Raymond Callahan (Delaware), Daniel Marston (Australian National University), Gajendra Singh (UC Dublin), Matthew Carnell (Sheffield), and Chandar Sundaram.

This event is sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the British Empire at War Research Group, Kellogg College Oxford, and King’s College London

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