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When India sent scores of prisoners to Iraq as sweepers during World War I In ‘The Coolie’s Great War’, Radhika Singha writes about the British recruiting Indian prisoners and ‘criminal tribes’ to do menial jobs in Mesopotamia. Radhika Singha 12 December, 2020 9:46 am IST Text Size: A+ In the bleak spring of 1916, a note from Mesopotamia complained bitterly about the tardiness with which India was responding to desperate calls for military labour: Could there possibly have been a greater opportunity for India with millions of men not usable as soldiers, to take a larger share in the war, or even a larger share in helping its own Indian Army? From all accounts India was burning to get such a chance, yet what happened? The honour of India was upheld first by aborigines and then by convicts.

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