yep fought on side of enslavers got a cheap medal for it.
Let us not disrespect a soldier because the glory of war is bought in blood.
India was colonized, its subject could only do what they were allowed by the presiding government. They enrolled in the forces of the ruling government to fight, and they fought well. Little did they know about the course of history as it is unpredictable and the solider is grave symbolizes one thing well - dedication to calling of duty.
Putting cheap comments and disrespecting the brave doesn't make your better rather it represents poor up bringing. Had it not been for identity confused politicians of the Indian subcontinent, the European powers would be bought to the moral compass for endangering the lives of 2.5 million citizens as mercenaries to fight their own war.
Thal Fort, 1919
The Hindustanee - Magzine
Sikh soldiers of 29th Indian Infantry Brigade in a trench during the Battle of Gallipoli 1915[480 810]
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Indian Army - Infantry Soldiers
Indian soldiers on rail protection duty in Basra, Iraq during WWI. In the background, you can see the desert, which created extremely difficult conditions for the soldiers on the Middle Eastern front. About 1.3 million Indian soldiers served in the British army, with more than 74,000 dying during the war.
Group Of Pashtun Warriors Anglo Afghan War
PEOPLE OF INDIA: Images of British India -Practice firing from the walls of a fort on the Northwest Frontier; photograph courtesy of the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge; 20th century. The Frontier was the loosely controlled area between British India and Afghanistan inhabited by various tribal groups. The British and Indian armies frequently operated in the region to maintain order and provide valuable military experience for the troops
Palay Khan (Pashto: پا لے خان ) Palay Khan was called, Palay Shah Khosti and was belonged to the Khosti syed tribe of Zhob. Khosti,s had migrated from Khost Afghanistan. He was a freedom fighter and chief of a freedom fighters' group, which fought against the British Raj, in 1930s, at Balochistan, Pakistan then the Baluchistan, a Commissionerate Province. Palay Khan never surrendered in agreement between his group and the British Raj against some compensation in favour of the earlier. The British promised him that they would accept the tribal laws as the constitution and laws for his land, that was announced for Zhob, the main area of his struggle.some versea of pashto epic poetry in praise of Palay Shah Khosti "Da Sarak ghary pa sray , Dalta khairat karai Palay" & "Zala tashty malashay , Da bam golai wali Palay."
Part of a large photo album of 1930's India and areas now in modern day Pakistan. The photos were taken by a British Soldier (name not known) and capture the some of the final years of the British Empire in India, prior to independence in 1947 partitioning establishing modern day India and Pakistan.Many photos are named and many seem to be related to the Leicestershire Regiment .
Officers of the Khyber Rifles
Indian Officers at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond, 1897
