Between Two Worlds

<I>Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army 1905-21</I> describes two societies in early twentieth century colonial India-the British governmental and military society and the regional Rajasthan aristocracy. The book portrays the pioneering experiences of Captain (later Major-General) Amar Singh an aristocrat of Jaipur State in the peacetime cantonments of Mhow (1906-14) and New Delhi (1918-19) on the Western and Mesopotamian fronts of World War One and on the Northwest Frontier (1919-21) during the Pathan uprising. Singh's personal story revealed through his diary details Indo-British cultural collaboration.