Full Description
The book is a moving account of about two thousand South Asians mostly sailors and soldiers from villages in Bengal, Nepal, the Northwest Frontier and Punjab, who were held for years in German prison camps. They attracted the close attention of army officers, diplomats and secret agents, of emigrant revolutionaries of India, of German artists, academics and industrialists. The book introduces and makes available rich German archives as yet unknown to the non-German speaking world.
Contents
IntroductionPart I: Histories of the Prisoners 1. Lost Engagements? Traces of South Asian Soldiers in German Captivity, 1915-1918: Ravi Ahuja 3. South Asian Civilian Prisoners of War in First World War Germany: Franziska Roy 4. The German Foreign Office, Indian Emigrants and Propaganda Efforts Among the 'Sepoys': Heike Liebau 5. German Perceptions of Enemy Colonial Troops, 19141918: Christian Koller6. South Asian Soldiers and German Academics: Anthropological, Linguistic and Musicological Field Studies in Prison Camps: Britta LangePart II: Histories of the Sources 7. Recordings of South Asian Languages and Music in the Lautarchiv of the Humboldt University Berlin: Jurgen Mahrenholz 8. Indian Prisoners of War in World War One- Photographs as Source Material: Margot Kahleyss 9. Hindostan - A Camp Newspaper for South-Asian Prisoners of World War One in Germany: Heike Liebau.Short Biographies
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