This book explores India's involvement in the Great War and the way the war impacted upon the country from a variety of different viewpoints including case studies focusing on key individuals who played vital roles in the war.

Introduction: India and the Great War, A Centennial Assessment, Roger D. Long 1. The View from Government House: Sir Michael O'Dwyer's War, Nick Lloyd 2. The Bombay Presidency's 'Home Front', 1914-1918, Sarah Ansari 3. Wartime in an Imperial City: The Apocalyptic Mood in Calcutta (1914-1918), Suchetana Chattopadhyay 4. The Tribal Belt and the Defence of British India: The North-West Frontier during World War I, Salman Bangash 5. India and the African Experience in the Great War, Lindsay Frederick Braun 6. 'Subalterns' at Mesopotamia: Battle, Siege, and Captivity, Santanu Das 7. In the Shadows: Contextualizing Cholera Outbreaks in the Indian Army during the Great War, Rachel Constance 8. The War Got in the Way: Annie Besant, the Contingencies of the Great War, and the Course of Indian Nationalism, Marc Jason Gilbert 9. Gandhi's Great War, Faisal Devji

Roger D. Long is Professor of history at Eastern Michigan University. He writes on the Pakistan Movement and is the biographer of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan.

Ian Talbot has written extensively on the history of the Punjab as well as the history of India and Pakistan since 1947. He is professor of History at the University of Southampton, UK.