![]() ![]() So far it is only one of the two known first-hand accounts of Indians soldiers who fought in World War I. Originally in Gujarati, Karkaria’s account of the Great War was titled Rangbhoomi par Rakhad and has only recently been translated into English by Murali Ranganathan as The First World War Adventures of Nariman Karkaria. ![]() They fought in France and Belgium, Egypt and East Asia, Gallipoli, Palestine and Mesopotamia.” Nariman Karkaria, a Parsi from Navsari in Gujarat, was one of the few soldiers who not only saw action on three different fronts, lived to tell the tale, but also left a first-hand account of the War. ![]() Jarboe in the introduction to his book Indian Soldiers in World War I: Race and Representation in an Imperial War writes, “More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed overseas to fight on behalf of the British Empire in the Indian Army during World War I. The India Gate, located in the epicentre of the new capital built by the British, stands to commemorate those Indian soldiers who lost their lives in this war. ![]() In spite of that several Indians fought on various fronts of the war owing to the fact that India was a British colony then. The Great War, as the First World War came to be known, is widely considered to be a European conflict. ![]()
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