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39 Fletcher F. World Aff. 77 (2015)
India Looks Back on the First World War

handle is hein.journals/forwa39 and id is 77 raw text is: India Looks Back on the First World War SHASHI THAROOR One hundred years after the guns of August boomed across the European continent, the world has been steeped in commemorations of that seminal event. The Great War, as it was called then, was described as the war to end all wars. Ironically, the eruption of an even more destruc- tive conflict twenty years later meant that it is now known as the First World War. Those who fought and died in the First World War would have had little idea that there would so soon be a Second. While the war took the flowers of Europe's youth to their prema- ture graves, snuffing out a generation of talented poets, artists, and others whose genius bled into the trenches, it also involved soldiers from faraway lands who had little to do with Europe's bitter traditional hatreds. The roles and sacrifices of Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, and South Africans have been celebrated for some time in books and novels, and even rendered immortal on celluloid in award-winning films like Gallipoli and Chinook Bair. Of the 1.3 million Indian troops who served in the conflict, however, we hear very little. As many as 74,187 Indian soldiers died during the war, and another 67,000 were wounded. Their stories-and their heroism-have long been omitted from popular histories of the war, or relegated to footnotes. India contributed a number of divisions and brigades to the European, Shashi 1haroor is an author, politician, and former international civil servant. He is currently a second-term Lok Sabha Member of Parliament in India, following a twenty-nine-year career with the UN, where he rose to the rank of Under-Secretary General. Dr. Tharoor obtained a PhD in 1978 at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and served as a founder and first Editor of The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. He is the author offourteen books, most recently Pax Indica: India & The World of the 21st century. VOL. 39:1 WINTER 20 15

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