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Indian Army in World War II Kaushik Roy


Indian Army in World War II Kaushik Roy

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DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199791279-0159



Introduction

The Indian Army was the largest volunteer force during the Second World War. Without resorting to conscription, the British were able to recruit 2.5 million Indians in the colonial Indian Army. The Indian Army fought the three major Axis powers (Japan, Italy, and Germany) from Hong Kong in the east to Italy in the west. It displayed tactical virtuosity and organizational flexibility while fighting in varying terrains, from the swamps and jungles of Malaya and Burma to the rocky terrain of Eritrea, the sandy desert of North Africa, and the mountains of central Italy. The Indian Army deserves credit for crushing the Italian Army in East Africa and defeating the much vaunted Wehrmacht in Tunisia and Italy. The Imperial Japanese Army experienced its greatest defeat in Burma, where most of the Commonwealth soldiers were Indians. Strangely, the Indian Army experienced very few mutinies during the war. Nevertheless, both Germany and Japan were able to create pro-Axis satellite armies from captured Indian prisoners of war. However, after the Allied victory in August 1945, the Indian soldiers were demobilized and communal riots broke out. As the sword arm of the Raj disintegrated, India moved inexorably toward independence and Partition.


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Heathcote 1995 provides a longue duree general survey of British military adventure in the subcontinent, especially highlighting the evolution of army’s command bureaucracy. The modern Indian Army was the creation of the British. Menezes 1993 and Barua 2005 trace its roots back to the mid-18th century. Johnson 2014 and McClenaghan 2014 note that the Indian Army was an amalgam of Western military tradition and traditional Indian military culture.

The Indian Army was composed of regular Indian units, officered mostly by the British, and units maintained by the princely states. Together with the British contingents stationed in India, it formed the Army in India. Roy 2009 and Roy 2013 argue that strategic ambiguity on part of the British rulers and organizational elasticity on part of the Indian Army were characteristic features of the British military policy in India.

The Indian Army was the principal pillar of British rule in the subcontinent. In peacetime, the army consumed 33 percent of the government’s budget. Hence, military expenditure constituted the biggest item of government expenditure. Moreover, the Indian Army, by recruiting more than 20,000 volunteers annually, was the largest provider of government jobs in colonial India. During the two world wars, military expenditure exceeded 60 percent of the colonial state’s budget, and the size of the army exceeded one million during the World War I and more than two million during World War II.

During the 19th century, the Indian Army was geared for imperial policing within India, but in the first half of the 20th century, this colonial force was called upon twice to function as an imperial reserve beyond the Indian subcontinent during the two world wars. Marston 2007 argues that adaptation and adoption characterized the Indian Army’s successful organizational transformation during World War II.

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