My Kahanni

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It makes me proud of my heritage, which is very important to me because for most of my childhood I was told my forefathers were "just immigrants leeching of British resources". This is something I really wish I knew when I was younger.
I definitely think increasing education about the British Indian Army and their role in the war is necessary. The younger generation need to know about their heritage and an almost forgotten part of history.

Samah18

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I knew that they helped in the war because they were part of the British colony but to the extent of they did, I didn’t know that much and it was quite good listening to the war veteran. I enjoyed that quite a lot. It was a bit inspirational in a way. There is something to relate to in a way because it’s someone that is obviously the same ethnicity as you and I didn’t know that before so it’s good. That was quite disturbing but it was good to listen to and I think he deserves credit as well for what he did and his battalion and his country.

Luqmaan16

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People do not know about the British Indian Army contribution here in Scotland and the UK. I know for a fact than in both primary school and high school, we always did WW1&2 but it was from the western perspective. I probably didn’t know there were South Asians soldiers in the war until I got into uni and actually they wanted to look at that side of things as well and I think it’s really important that we get to know because it’s part of our shared history. A lot of people don’t know about it because I have been sharing these facts and figures and they had been like ‘what’…

Puravi24

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If you look at the 21st century now and if you look at 2019, we are living in a time where there is quite a lot of racism and there is quite a lot of ignorance and hate and fear and I think if people were to know just how much these Indian soldiers gave, they spilt blood for this country for little more than pride, I think there will be a lot less of that. So there is not enough education on that and actually quite funnily when I uploaded some information on my social media sites, the amount of people that were voting to say they had never heard about any of it was quite shocking, quite upsetting actually.

Yusuf21