WW1. Around 1.4 million Indians served during the war with around 74,000 fatalities. But other than manpower, India offered a substantia amount of financial and material aid which again is not well profiled in the history books or the press.
The contributions from Indian revenues towards the cost of the war amounted to £146.2 million to the end of 1919-20. In today’s terms these would amount to around £14 billion.
Two and a half million Indians also fought for British forces in the Second World War, by the end of which £1.25bn of Britain's total £3bn war debt was owed to India, which was merely the tip of the iceberg that was colonial exploitation.
It still hasn't been paid.
In 1943, Churchill diverted food away from India to allies in Europe, resulting in a famine in India that killed 4,000,000 people.
These are facts that people like PeterDev are ignorant of, or forget in triumphalist, ignorant nationalism. He also is ignorant of the causes of WWII which came from WWI...
Too many Brits are so ignorant of history that we are bound to repeat the mistakes...
Those who least need to listen to the following speaker will probably listen to the following, whilst those mist needing to listen will be busy expressing their ignorance.