The Politics of Provisioning: Feeding South Asian Prisoners During the First World War |
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Authors: | Nadja Durbach |
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Affiliation: | Department of History, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
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Abstract: | During the First World War, the German and British Governments supplied culturally appropriate rations and secured special facilities for food preparation and consumption for South Asian prisoners of war whose loyalty both governments sought. The food provided in POW camps to South Asians serves as an index of the political status of colonial subjects at a moment when the future of European empires was far from certain. The British Government’s approach to feeding its South Asian servicemen held by the enemy thus reveals this population’s place within Britain’s wartime national and imperial imaginary and in its post-war planning. |
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Keywords: | First World War prisoners of war South Asians food Britain dietary |
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