When Legions Thunder Past: The Second World War and India’s Northeastern Frontier

• Autores: Bérénice Guyot-Réchard
• Localización: War in history, ISSN-e 1477-0385, ISSN 0968-3445, Vol. 25, Nº. 3, 2018, págs. 328-360
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Between 1942 and 1945, the Patkai mountains of Assam and Manipur became India’s front line against Japan. This article charts the concatenation of political, cultural, and socio-economic transformations that the Second World War caused in a region that colonial authorities had tried to cordon off. The conflict had push-and-pull effects on the Patkai, intensifying direct state penetration yet reviving long-standing transregional ties with Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia. When ‘national’ borders appeared with Burma and India’s independence two years later, the effect was jarring. As such, the war was a watershed in the postcolonial evolution of northeastern India and northwestern Burma.