- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
by Amit Roy AS THE nation marks the centenary of the end of the First World War, historian Dr Kusoom Vadgama has expressed concern that the Indian soldiers are being split up according to religion – Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus. She has a point when she asserts: “They did not fight as Muslims or Sikhs or Hindus. They fought as Indian soldiers.” It may be politically expedient to pick out, say, Muslim achievement as a way of countering allegations of Islamaphobia in contemporary Britain, but that is to twist history. For example, Khudadad Khan is now projected as the “first…
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