Forgotten Men: Post-war memory of Indian Prisoners of War of the Japanese in World War Two by Noles, K

“…<p>During the Second World War some sixty-seven thousand Indian personnel of the British Indian Army were captured by Imperial Japanese forces, including a large number at the surrender of Singapore in February 1942. …”

Beyond famines: wartime state, society, and politicization of food in colonial India, 1939 – 1945 by Sarkar, A

“…It argues that the war necessitated actions on the part of the colonial state to secure food supplies to a vastly expanded British Indian Army, to the foreign Allied troops stationed in India, and to the workers employed in war-industries.…”