The testimonies of Indian soldiers and the two world wars : between self and sepoy

Content: That "Jungian thing": Defining the colonial soldier --
Reading soldiers' testimonies --
Emplotting the witness --
In Search of Colonial Negatives: Martial Race Theories, Recruiting Handbooks and the Indian Army, c.1890-1945 --
Fulfilling colonial fantasies in pursuit of the martial race --
The dangers of being both black and a lion: Sikhs --
From noble frontiersman to debauched tribal: The Pathan --
Rediscovering the oldest of the martial classes: The rural Brahmin --
Conclusion: Following the negative --
More Like Brothers and Fathers to the Sepoys: Welfare, Discipline and Censorship in the Army --
The origins and evolution of Indian military law --
These men have defecated in their dhotis through sheer fright: Welfare, war trauma and dealing with the Indian insane --
It is by the terror which it inspires that it produces good: Discipline in the Army --
Conclusion: The paternal need to regulate sipahis' speech --
The Perils of Oriental Correspondence: Sipahis, Letters and Writing at the Crossroads --
Re-envisaging the colonial gaze through Asian eyes --
Eating sweetmeats in Brighton: Traversing sexual frontiers and the Kitchener Indian Hospital --
What you've all got to go through for the Emperor: Contracts, self-mutilation and malingering during World War I --
I dreamed and dreamed of getting back to India ... but the dream ended in nothing more than a dream: Famine and falling houses during World War II --
Conclusion: Casting a shadow (imperfectly) over Lalu --
Throwing Snowballs in France: (Re- )writing a letter and (re- )appraising Islam, 1915-1918 --
Circulating the words of the Prophet(s): Chain letters, German propaganda and Ahmadi missionaries --
Shaping Snowballs in France: (Re)reading and (re)writing the Snowball letter --
Could a man be so perverted to lose his religion for the sake of a woman?: Sex, intercourse and religion in France --
Show the frenzy of Islam in the fight, Oh Musalmans!: Jazirat-al-Arab, 15th Lancers and mutiny in Mesopotamia --
Conclusion: (Re- )writing a letter and (re- )appraising Islam --
Mutiny, Fabricating Court Testimony and Hiding in the Latrine: The 5th Light Infantry in Singapore --
L'audace toujours L'audace: The objectives of the Court of Inquiry --
Silences, ciphers and buying tins of milk: The testimony of Feroze Khan --
Naming all the thieves as the Court's approver: Fazal Azim's testimony --
If you wish to save your life, run!: The deposition of Sazawar Khan and embracing victimhood --
Occupying the margins and being the outsider: The testimony of Dost Mohamed --
Conclusion: Remembering to act like what we are --
Breaking the Chains with Which We Were Bound: The Interrogation Chamber, the Indian National Army and the Negation of Military Identities, 1941-1947.