Philip Hensher

‘Help the British anyhow’

Srinath Raghavan shows how fighting with the Allies in the second world war would profoundly affect India’s future, for better or worse

issue 26 March 2016

  • India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939–1945

    Srinath Raghavan

    Allen Lane, pp. 608

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