ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys the recent diversification and deepening of the historiography of South Asia’s world war entanglements. It begins by recapitulating the proportions of South Asian world war participation and of the disruptive entanglements these wars engendered in the spheres of economy and society. The chapter then retraces the expanding boundaries of military-institutional histories towards new experiential and intellectual histories of South Asian war participation. In conclusion, the wider ramifications and the dynamic impact of the wars on polities and society are examined during the final decades of British rule in South Asia.
