Santanu DasSantanu Das is Reader in English at King's College London. He is the author of 'Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature' (Cambridge, 2006) and the editor of Race, Empire and First World War Writing (Cambridge, 2011) and the 'CambridgeCompanion to First World War Poetry' (2013). A visual sourcebook 'Indian Troops in Europe, 1914-1918' (Gallimard: Paris/Mapin: Ahmedabad) was published in 2014 while 'India, Empire and the First World War: Words, Objects and Images' is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2017. He is currently directing a three-year collaborative research project 'Cultural Exchange in the Time of Global Crisis' (www.cegcproject.eu) and is about to edit the 'Oxford Book of First World War Empire Writing'. Read More Read Less