HSTR 347A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Kazi Nazrul Islam, Indirect Rule, Shared Experience
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Money and resources at first, really supportive of the war, but by the end, radically change and reversed. As long as they did not challenge primacy of british empire : could do whatever they want indirect rule. Unlike gandhi whose family have work for princily state, many of them have happy relationship with europe. Idea was that if indian force, after the war they would be something = along the line of. Dominions, somekinf of self gov with br empire gandhi is critiquing this idea but the general nationalism was behin this ideas. Indians in the world war i : 800 000 men sent from india, 17 million of anmmunition, 42 millions garments, 60 000 indian casualties, 600 000 rifles, machine guns. War hospitals protect the imagine of empire from colonized not want to see the misery. Ottoman sought they were loyal, some did not fight against other muslim. Indian are writing a lot about war effort.