British historian David Omissi collected the letters of Indian soldiers away from home in his book 'Indian Voices of the Great War'.
These eloquent letters offer a poignant glimpse into the lives of these Indian soldiers, whom history forgot.
You can hear David Omissi at the next free symposium this weekend at SOAS. Here is a taster of what's on offer:
A wounded Sikh writing to his father (in Gurmukhi script), Brighton Hospital, 18th January 1915
Tell my mother not to go wandering madly because her son, my brother, is dead. To be born and to die is God’s order. Some day we must die, sooner or later, and if I die here, who will remember me? It is a fine thing to die far from home. A saint said this, and, as he was a good man, it must be true.
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