Srinath Raghavan

So I would jump and then write, rewrite, uh, then forgetting the Kannada text, I used to, uh, read the text, how it reads in English.

And of course, uh, uh, NIF, uh, in-house editor Ryuka Israeli and the NIF, uh, trustee Professor Srinath Raghavan, they read the text.

You know, the non-Kannadigas reading the text and their feedback helped me, um, uh, helped my, my, my translation.

I, I tell you, it was totally frustrating experience.

Hi there, and welcome again to the Explaining History podcast.

I'm looking today at Srinath Raghavan's brilliant book, India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939 to 1945.

Now, um, India gets frequently overlooked when it comes to the Second World War.

Um, for the most part, Indian soldiers fought on, um, in, uh, a- you know, beyond India's borders in the Middle East, in Asia, and in Europe.

The, the key component that makes the British Empire run.

Um, so looking at India during the war, um, domestically, socially, economically, is hugely important.

So we're looking at, um, chapter nine, Coils of War, and Srinath Raghavan writes, "Speaking in Bombay before his incarceration in October 1940, Jawaharlal Nehru noted, 'The coils of war increasingly strangle the world.

What happens in Europe is of great consequence to America, to India, to China.