This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. This is a comprehensive history of South Asian humanitarian aid in the context of armed conflicts in the colonial period. Adopting an international and transnational approach, the book focuses on relief initiatives from the First World War to the Second World War and the early post-war years. Through five case studies, this book offers new insights into the history of volunteer societies and non-state organisations in British India. It enhances readers' understanding of late colonial public and political activism on the Indian subcontinent. The book makes a significant contribution to the global history of humanitarianism, offering a nuanced understanding of the subject. This is achieved through an in-depth, context-sensitive exploration of relief work in a non-Western setting, focusing on the significance of Indian actors for the development of a transnational civil society. This title is available Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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The book is a comprehensive history of Indian humanitarian aid in the context of armed conflicts in the colonial period.
List of Figures and Table; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations;
Introduction; Part I. Imperial Humanitarianism and Nationalism during the
First World War: Introduction;
1. Growing with and beyond the Red Cross
Movement: The Relief Work of the Indian St. John Ambulance Association during
the First World War;
2. 'Our Proud Privilege to Nurse the Indian Soldiers
Back to Health!': The Indian Field Ambulance Training Corps; Part II.
Anti-imperial Solidarity and Relief in the 1930s; Introduction:
3.
Humanitarianism as Tool of Anticolonial Emancipation: The Indian Medical
Mission to China; Part III. Intra-imperial Non-state Relief Work in the
Context of the Second World War and Early Decolonization: Introduction;
4. 'A
Remarkable Piece of Humanitarian Work': The Indian Comforts Fund;
5. National
Self-assertion and Anticolonial Emancipation: The (Medical) Relief Work of
the Indian National Congress in Malaya; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Maria Framke is a historian of modern South Asia based at the History Department at Erfurt University in Germany. Her research and publications cover the history of international organisations, humanitarianism and development, and gender in the 20th century. She co-edited the 2023 Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia.
