South Asia

Overview

Publications and archival collections at Hoover document social, political, and economic changes in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal, especially during World War II and the independence and partition of India.

Robert D. Lichty Papers

Photographer, US Air Transport Command, India, 1942 –44

Evelyn Trent Papers

US journalist and wife of M. N. Roy, founder of the Communist Party of India.

Terence White Collection

Photojournalist and author, A Taste for Hot Steel: Frontline Encounters of a Foreign Correspondent

Alex Inkeles Papers

US sociologist

Frank Farner Papers

Education adviser, World Bank, 1976–89

Bolshevik Leninist Party Of India Bulletin

Central Committee materials, 1947

Dainika Ittephāka

Newspaper published in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Indian Subject Collection

Miscellaneous materials

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Ernest Easterbrook's World War II China-Burma-India Theater Diaries Available Online

Ernest Easterbrook began this account of his experiences in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater in 1944, when he became General Joseph W. Stilwell's executive assistant in Burma. Later, as commander of the 475th Infantry Regiment, he led it behind enemy lines to clear northern Burma and reopen the Burma Road.

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"MERRILL'S MARAUDERS: GENERAL STILWELL'S INFANTRY FIGHTING WORLD WAR II IN BURMA, 1944"

The exhibit will showcase information regarding General Stilwell's infantry fighting in Burma, in 1944

September 24, 1998 STANFORD
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