Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: India and the Great War, a centennial assessment / Roger D. Long -- The view from government house: Sir Michael O'Dwyer's war / Nick Lloyd -- The Bombay presidency's "home front", 1914-1918 / Sarah Ansari -- Wartime in an imperial city: the apocalyptic mood in Calcutta (1914-1918) / Suchetana Chattopadhyay -- The tribal belt and the defence of British India: the north-west frontier during World War I / Salman Bangash -- India and the African experience in the Great War / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- "Subalterns" at Mesopotamia: battle, siege, and captivity / Santanu Das -- In the shadows: contextualizing cholera outbreaks in the Indian Army during the Great War / Rachel Constance -- The war got in the way: Annie Besant, the contingencies of the Great War, and the course of Indian nationalism / Marc Jason Gilbert -- Gandhi's Great War / Faisal Devji.