Forgotten wars freedom and revolution in Southeast Asia First Edition by Christopher Alan Bayly, Timothy Norman Harper ISBN 0674057074 978-0674057074
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ISBN 10: 0674057074
ISBN 13: 978-0674057074
Author: Christopher Alan Bayly, Timothy Norman Harper
In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb–and with it, the Japanese empire–Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent of land that stretched from India through Burma and down to Singapore, and with troops occupying the French and Dutch colonies in southern Vietnam and Indonesia, Britain’s imperial might had never seemed stronger.
Yet within a few violent years, British power in the region would crumble, and myriad independent nations would struggle into existence. Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper show how World War II never really ended in these ravaged Asian lands but instead continued in bloody civil wars, anti-colonial insurrections, and inter-communal massacres. These years became the most formative in modern Asian history, as Western imperialism vied with nascent nationalist and communist revolutionaries for political control.
Forgotten Wars, a sequel to the authors’ acclaimed Forgotten Armies, is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people: the poor and bewildered caught up in India’s Hindu-Muslim massacres; the peasant farmers ravaged by warfare between British forces and revolutionaries in Malaya; the Burmese minorities devastated by separatist revolt. Throughout, we are given a stunning portrait of societies poised between the hope of independence and the fear of strife. Forgotten Wars vividly brings to life the inescapable conflicts and manifold dramas that shaped today’s Asia.
Table of contents:
Prologue: An Unending War
1. 1945: Interregnum
The New Asia
The last journey of Subhas Chandra Bose
Nations without states
Three weeks in Malaya
The fall of Syonan
2. 1945: The Pains of Victory
Burma intransigent
India: the key
Bengal on the brink
The reckoning
3. 1945: A Second Colonial Conquest
‘Black Market Administration’
A world upside down
Liberal imperialism and New Democracy
‘Malaya for the Malays, not the Malayans’
4. 1945: The First Wars of Peace
The crescent regained Britain’s forgotten war in Vietnam Britain and the birth of Indonesia Freedom or death in Surabaya
5. 1946: Freedom without Borders
The passing of the Malayan Spring Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat British and Indian mutinies Dorman-Smith’s Waterloo A new world order?
6. 1946: One Empire Unravels, Another Is Born The killing begins Britain’s terminal crisis in Burma The burial of the dead Business as usual in Malaya
7. 1947: At Freedom’s Gate
The last days of the Raj
The crescent fragments: Bengal divided
Tragedy in Rangoon
Disaster approaches
8. 1947: Malaya on the Brink
The crescent fragments: orphans of empire Malaya’s forgotten regiments The strange disappearance of Mr Wright ‘Beware, the danger from the mountain’ A people’s constitution
9. 1948: A Bloody Dawn
Boys’ Day in Burma
The genesis of communist rebellion
A summer of anarchy
Karens and Britons
India recedes, India reborn
10. 1948: The Malayan Revolution
A third world war?
The frontier erupts
Calls to arms
Sten guns and stengahs
The road to Batang Kali
11. 1949: The Centre Barely Holds
Britain, India and the coming of the Cold War
The centre barely holds
The battle for the ulu
Freedom and revolution
The generation of 1950
Epilogue: The End of Britain’s Asian Empire
Freedom, slowly and gently
Freedom from fear?
Flawed memories
A flawed inheritance
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