Poppies for the forgotten: Armistice Day, imperialism, and the war that never ended

India , Journalism , War Nov 11, 2018 No Comments

Well, that went quickly, didn’t it? Today, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day and all that, we marked a hundred years since the guns fell silent on the battlefields of WWI. This year, for obvious reasons, the commemorations took on an especially resonant tone.

They did so for some less obvious reasons as well. In the lead-up to today’s events, one group, British Future, spearheaded the ‘Remember Together’ project, which aimed to increase awareness of the role that people of different backgrounds played in the Allied war effort. “The armies of 1914–18 looked more like the Britain of 2018 than that of its day,” the initiative’s website reads. “British troops fought alongside soldiers of different colours and creeds from across the Commonwealth, including over a million Indian soldiers, 400,000 of them Muslims from present-day Pakistan.” This latter group included Khudadad Khan, a Muslim who was the first Indian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

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Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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