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‘Of the 1.4 million Indians who participated in World War I, over half a million were non-combatants’ January 8, 2021, 7:28 AM IST
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The critical role of Indian Army in World War I is well-known. What’s little known is over 5.5 lakh non-combatants- porters, cooks, sweepers, blacksmiths and others- were an important part of the ecosystem. Historian
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Two decades after her last book on crime and justice in early colonial India, Radhika Singha is back with a second book on the Indian Army coolies whose services in the World War 1 remain unacknowledged.
Titled The Coolie’s Great War, the book has been published by Harper Collins. Singha, who is the professor of Modern Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, tells us how it was a paper on Indian non-combatants during World War I that culminated into this book.
Why and how did you choose this subject for your book?
It was 2004, and protests had erupted against proposals to send an Indian contingent in support of the American occupation of Iraq. This was what sent me to the National Archives Delhi to look up the story of the Indian Expeditionary Force sent to Ottoman Iraq (Mesopotamia) in World War I. I discovered that of the 6,75,391 Indian personnel sent here at the behest of British Empire, over half (3,48,735) were in fact non-combatants or ‘