When India sent scores of prisoners to Iraq as sweepers during World War I
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 sold...
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