HIDDEN HISTORIES
Mar 19, 2020
2 minutes
“In 1916, brothers who had fought on opposing sides were reunited”
Even now, a century after the conflict ended, the role that soldiers from the Indian subcontinent played in the First World War remains largely forgotten.
This was underlined recently when actor Laurence Fox referred clumsily to the “oddness of the casting” when director Sam Mendes showed a Sikh soldier in 1917. Search more carefully though, and you’ll
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