In The Raj At War: A People’s History Of India’s Second World War, Yasmin Khan showed how the British war effort was collective; it was the British empire that fought the war. To be sure, more than 300,000 British troops were evacuated from Dunkirk, and the number of troops of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps in Dunkirk amounted to a few hundred. In doing this, he disobeyed an order from one of his superiors to abandon his Indian troops. It contributes to a false narrative about the British empire. Partial reading of British history does a huge disservice to the British people.

Source: Mint July 27, 2017 00:22 UTC