Thursday, 2 July 2015

Why the Indian soldiers of WW1 were forgotten

SOURCE: BBC UK Approximately 1.3 million Indian soldiers served in World War One, and over 74,000 of them lost their lives. But history has mostly forgotten these sacrifices, which were rewarded with broken promises of Indian independence from the British government, writes Shashi Tharoor. Exactly 100 years after the “guns of August” boomed across the […]

from idrw.org http://ift.tt/1JzjoNh
via IFTTThttp://idrw.org

No comments:

Post a Comment