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As an American, we learn so little of this aspect of WWII, that is an error and a injustice to those brave men of India. Glad I watched this an learned something. So much more I need to learn.
If you would like to know the things that are not often portrayed in the world, then I think this may help you.There is a problem in the West. They always portray fascism and communism as the only enemy of the global peace, but it's absolutely wrong. The West may have committed less crimes in the Cold War compared to the radical communists, but they were almost equally responsible for the atrocities committed by them compared to the ones by Axis. The crimes of the victors barely appears but the crimes committed by the losers are always shown. Before the Cold War, the Allied nations also committed a lot of horrible genocides and violated human rights. Like ill treatment of the "blacks", exploiting their colonies and even serious crimes which will be too painful to listen. In a lot of cases, US and UK also preferred to let the fascists stay in power in order to avoid a communist takeover. Subhash Chandra Bose was never radical in terms of ideology. However, he was forced to collaborate with the Axis and turn a blind eye from their atrocities because he knew none of the sides are better. He trusted the British in WWI in hopes of becoming their promise of making India independent true. But it was a lie. So, he decided to side with the Axis this time after seeing the same old treatment of the British. He never opposed democracy from his heart, but he had to do it as it was the only way he can fight the war. I am not an Indian but in India, he is mostly hailed as a hero. He was really great as a human. He put his life and everything below his country. He reportedly cried when any INA soldier died in a battle. He even didn't slept the night he heard that WWII was over. This side is often overshadowed by his choices, which is very wrong because all sides of a story should be shown. The West says that they support democracy, but in a lot of times, they supported autocracy over democracy, like in Korea and Afghanistan in 80s. While the West may be the most kind now, no one is actually 100% right. One RUclips comment is not never enough to explain everything. So, I did as much as I can. You can watch the insanity of Bose in this move dedicated to him. If you are someone who is interested in history and also to know the largely unknown sides of WWII, then I can definitely say that you are going to learn something from this movie. ruclips.net/video/WczVepo7fKw/видео.html
Subhash Chandra Bose is often portrayed as the radical Indian in WWII. However, this is far from the truth. This person saw the dream of an independent India. He even decided how would India be after he would liberate it. He even decided the police network of India. His German co-workers said that his visions were ahead of his time. He sacrificed everything, his life, family, his comfort, his home just to liberate his nation. He always put his country ahead of everyone. He loved his country more than anyone else.
He even decided his IAS service, the civil service jobs under the British Indian government, in which he scored 4th. Even after getting such a great score, he didn't accept the jobs because he wouldn't work for Britain. You can see the Golden watch in the movie which was gifted to him by his father for this score.
And speaking of respect, Griffin himself also doesn't know about it. Most of the Indians hail him even today as a hero. You can see his statues, his name everywhere in India. Even the Kolkata airport is named after him. You can see in the movie how the Indians felt when they saw him. They would touch his feet for blessing and one women in the movie even said that what she had done for him is nothing compared to his service to the country. In a lot of police station, you can see his portrait hung on the wall. He is far from being hated in India. I was even kicked out of the Discord server with another person for sheding light onto such things. One moderator was so toxic that he continued to insult us for no reason in DMs. However, there is not always one side of a story. Everyone should know about both of the sides before making an opinion. I know that the Allied victory was important for the general wellbeing of the world, but we have also lost a lot of jewels like Subhash Chandra Bose in the process.
thank you for covering this, the contributions India and other colonies are often not given the attention they need. It is worth noticing that India had the largest volunteer army in WW2, the british indian army.
Churchill did what was necessary to win the war. I think Indians consider that if Churchill didn't divert resources then there would be no suffering in India. But the reality is that Britain would've starved to death, and then Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan would've come for India. Indians would've been slaves to the nationalist regimes of Japan and Germany and suffered much worse than they did under the Raj.
India sent millions to fight against fascism & the veterans get little credit by both their own country & the Allies. The British Indian Army consistently fought valiantly & with great determination to win.Thank you for covering this!
Millions of Slavs central Asians Jews and Muslims sent to fight fascism and the west takes credit for liberation of Europe. Also yea India fought hard but while we starved by the millions building war machines sending our fathers and sons by the hundreds of thousands Churchill wanted to be a little bitch boy and open the second front when we needed few more months to reach the polish German border instead of it being sooner in 43 and yet still with the Americans takes credit for freeing europe
no they didnt fight agaist fascism( in india they didnt hate or admire the nazis ), they fought against the axis because they were forced, many leaders like Bose and the INA joined the axis forces to fight the Raj
But Britain was fascist itself. They put Indian soldiers to die for a nation that massacred their people. I don't understand why people don't see this angle
In Australia and New Zealand, we were not taught that India provided more troops than Australia, New Zealand and Canada combined to defend the British empire.
They are many things that are not taught in Anglo countries, because they know what horrific crimes they did. And they don't want their credits to be taken away & want to portray themselves better than Hitler's Germany when they were even worse.
Well, they never get past the aboriginal history lessons so it figures as much. And before you say there were lessons on war as well, I know, but they are mainly overshadowed by the aboriginal history. A lot of rasism and stuff.
In fairness, India had many times more people than Australia, New Zealand and Canada combined even with our current populations compared to their ww2 era population. They still did good.
It's crazy how the sacrifice of an entire generation of men is forgotten , I wish they taught me more about these men who served . If it wasn't for my Grandpa who told me the stories , I wouldn't have felt indebted to them
Lol forgotten? Here's another fun fact. When Pakistan invaded Bangladesh in 1971 and killed millions of Bangladeshis, untold attrocities committed against 100000+ women, it was Indian army that liberated them. Now the same Bangladeshis have joined in their islamic brotherhood with pakistan and keep spewing hate against India with their propaganda. The ungrateful lot have the audacity to order India to separate the state of kashmir otherwise they will remain ungrateful apparently, a state in which Islamists committed mass genocide of Hindus in 1991 in the majority hindu Indian country itself.
Before we give them credit the British should probably repay all the money and resources it "borrowed" just before quitting India, on-top of reperations of course
My grandpa, a Bengali, was 15 at this time. He told all of the Japanese Bombing stories. It seemed like a horror. This documentary reminded me of him. Edit: Thanks for all the wonderful replies, and yes, my grandpa is still alive today.
It is my great yet saddening respect for the people of the great generation they have suffered for a better world and a great world is what they shall have, maybe the heaven for now may they rest in peace. 🇧🇩✊
Thank you for making a video on this. My grandfather fought on the Burma front against the Japanese. In his later years, he'd share that he was fighting an enemy he didn't hate, and fighting for British who he didn't love. Crazy times, conveniently forgotten too.
My friend's grand Dad was also there with the Eastern Africa king's African riffles.... He told us they carried all the weight on their backs through the mud and were used as canon fodder
One time I got my hands on some old family photos and saw my British great grandfather stationed in New Delhi, Calcutta and later Mandalay between 1942-1944. That knowledge is honestly very dark, I have no reason to think he did anything wrong, but I have no reason to think he wasn’t a part of the atrocities that went on in Bengal. I am shocked Britain doesn’t acknowledge this more, but more personally I find it so strange that 4 generations ago my ancestors could have done that.
The Indians have definitely been through a lot and after all our government did to them over the years, to still be loyal and fight for us speaks volumes that's why I have always respected them.
My dad was a child in Bengal during WW2 and he remembers the terrible famine. Desperately hungry people would eat grass. Thousands of corpses littered the roads and villages. This was almost as terrible as the Holocaust in Europe.
The Famous quotes of Dr Shashi Tharoor-"No wonder that the Sun never set on the British Empire because even GOD couldn't Trust the English in the Dark''
England will reign over the world as we always have ...... LONG LIVE BRITISH EMPIRE !!! THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE OF ALL TIME !. we had colonized half the world in our prime and we can do it again if someone decides to look at us with dirty eyes.
An old man in our village who fought against the Japanese said, that after the Japanese would win a battle they would go around finding anyone that was still alive. If they were white/english they would get a bullet in the head if they were brown/indian they would be let go. The Japanese would let them go believing that the Indians were fighting as slaves and that taking their lives was meaningless. I remember him saying the Japanese were ruthless in all aspects but still spared him cause he fit in the same category as a slave basically. Edit: There's some disagreements going down in the comments so I'm editing for the sake of clearing one point up. Most of the Indians that were captured and let go saw the invading Japanese forces as saviours, saving them from Colonial Rule. Most of these soldiers saw this as compassion from the Japanese hence they picked up arms against the British and their own country men.
@@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404 No sadly you are mistaken, he wasn't my grandfather. Also if slave mentality is what saved the old fella then props to him for making it out alive.
The fact we see so many comments from people around the world not knowing about this is so weird to me that even the history of around last 150 years can be or rather is twisted, hidden and sometimes straight up misrepresented.. Thanks for the video
What more do you expect buddy , almost every western institution have always kept india in dark , even now they won't highlight our scientific achivements, out of there superiority complex.
As an Indian, NATO needs to be stopped. Putin is a hero we dont deserve but desperately need. Cannot allow NATO to re-establish colonialism and world domination. They are just a bunch of imperialists in a trench coat. I would take nuclear winter over NATO expansion. The British are vile and subhuman. British, French, Americans and West Europeans can never be trusted.
Agreed. But it's RUclips comments, would not expect anything but relativisers and revisionists glorifying the British racial dictatorship in India and ignoring history, just like some people deny the Holocaust or Rape of Nanking.
What would u tell them bro even when our textbooks doesn't give details about them , from 6th to 10th we just study about foreign invasions (their good deeds) rather than their harsh policies
2013 Maharashtra was a drought not a famine and it was due to lack of rain. India hasn’t had a famine in decades since we became food production positive.
NEVER. Griffin, I had never before been taught that India had suffered a famine that cost it 2.1-3 MILLION PEOPLE. Thank-you for freeing my mind. Thank-you for this sacrifice, Indian people. 🇺🇸🤝🇮🇳🇧🇩🇵🇰
@@TheBengal_Tiger yeah, he's doing precisely that. This video is bogus for making Indians, who were at best just cannon fodder, look like they willingly chose to die for Britain. Tell me is there any difference between the Allies or the Axis?
I am a Bengali from Bangladesh. We were learned 3 million Bengali were killied by Pakistani military in Bangladesh with geopolitical favor of US and Arab countries. Around 4.3 million Benglai died due to man-made femine by british colonial regime during WW II. We strongly believe that the death number was more than 2-3 millions during WWII in Bengal. By the way thankful to you for highliting the secrifices of Bengali for WWII.
@@seljukboiii1187 Crimes against Muslims? If we had to do crimes, we would have invaded Bangladesh long back. But we respect your people and sovereignty. Besides we saw what happened at ISKON temple in Dhaka and elsewhere. Never forget two things 1. Bangladesh exists because of India. 2. Your ancestors were Hindus who were brutally converted to Islam.
@Seljuk Gaming didn't know Bangladesh have propaganda too. Those who rule Bangladesh today are in cahoots with Pakistan, and were together responsible for the murders of 2.5 million Hindu Bengalis in the 1971 Holocaust That's what internet says
My grandmother’s father was a ww2 veteran. He had gone to Africa my grandmother said that the indian and British soldiers were seated separately in the truck. They were all given bun and a cigarette the indian soldiers would trade their cigarettes for buns with the brits. Her father was wounded but he came back and recovered.
Tho his narration on the begal famine is incorrect and a product of a mainstream idea. It has been proposed in many articles that the famine was caused not by "not enough food", but rather by unpayble prices caused by the english "increase" un demand.
As an English man, I look back on this stuff with distress. Aspects of what should be a shared pride for our hero's doing something to create a common history tieing different heritages together is tarnished by the elites and their attitudes, the common folk have no reason to see each other as different let alone dislike one another or worse. To not have good working & equally beneficial relations with places like India after they played such a crucial place in history is upsetting. India doesn't get enough credit and because of that, it has taken away from what it means to be British. I'm not sure how the future will play out but I've got nothing but respect for India. My heritage and values are not those of the past but I shouldn't distance myself from it, there should be room for pride and a heavy heart, every nation is home to a dark past they try to paint out of the books but education, acceptance and condolence when acknowledging the wrong is better than ignorance, protest and pretending to be something better than our ancestors as not only is it damaging but without acceptance, there isn't true compassion and we're doomed to repeat.
What a crock. The common people are the biggest supporters of such. Tell an average white person that a poc is trying to take away their rights and watch how they turn.
I am amazed at Churchill's callousness toward the starving Bengalis - it really makes him no better than Stalin, who was quite content to see Ukrainians starve in the Holodmor.
Churchill did send a relief shipment to India to help but was mostly sunk by the Japanese and so begged Roosevelt to send aid but he declined so what was Churchill to do? Famines have happened several times in Bengal and so this was just very bad timing and a perfect storm for a disaster.
@@crackajacka87 care to provide evidence where Japan sunk relief material sent by UK. Though churchill didn't intentionally kill bengalis, he didn't just didn't care either.
@@OfficialSilverMoon Churchill couldn't send aid though because he didn't have the ships to do it... He made several telegrams to the US president asking for help and to lend ships as he had the food in Australia but no way to get it to them... It's all misinformation to say that Churchill didn't try to help and that he just didn't care when this is not the case.
@@crackajacka87 the famines that Bengal went through was the brit's doing. The Bengali farmers were forced to cultivate indigo and poppy, as cash crops for the brits, while starving Bengalis had to die. And speaking of the help you are mentioning, do you care for well being of the cattles you slaughter ? That was exactly the case. We were just taken for granted and made scapegoats.
the Indians have some truly remarkable parts of their history, as all nations do. Do a video on Saragarhi. That battle was an amazing feat of bravery and mettle that goes almost unrivaled.
If you are amazed by the battle of Saraghari then hold on my friend search battle of Chamkaur in which 40 Sikhs along with 5 pyare, Shri Guru Gobind Singh ji, 2 Sahibzade(2 sons of Shri Guru Gobind Singh ji ) fought with the Mughal army of 1 million
@@armandeepsingh1843 was that the one where the signal officer asked permission to drop his signal mirrors and fight from the last untaken room in the fort?
As heroic the battle of Saragarhi may be, it was still a battle between British colonial state and Pashtoon freedom fighter. Which makes the pashtoon cause more righteous.
Very interesting video. As an Indian, I never learned or knew that most of these things happened. We learned about the freedom struggle of our country, but never the larger picture of the impact of the world wars or the sacrifices of Indian troops or the deaths of civilians under the hands of the British. Independence came at such a great price and I'm ever grateful for the sacrifices of my countrymen. Our Independence day is on 15th of August, by the way!
THAT WAS PUNJABIS WHO FOUGHT FOR BRITS,,,,,,,,,,,,, UP TO 60%(IN INDIAN SUBCONTINENT OR INDIAN ARMY REST WERE GORKHAS)BUT THEY GAVE US REWARD FOR HELPING IN WW2.................. THEY DIVIDED OUR COUNTRY PUNJAB INTO MANY PARTS SOME ARE IN PAKISTAN AND THE REMAINING ARE IN INDIA,,,,,,,, EVEN BEFORE BRITS GREATER PUNJAB (HALF AFGHANIYA, KASHMIR,HIMACHAL , LADAKH,GILGIT) BALOCHISTAN HAVE PERSIAN AS A NATIONAL LANGUAGE BUT THEY MERGE US WITH INDIANS (ACTUALLY BRITISH OCCUPIED INDIA).............
WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM BOTH PAKISTAN AND INDIA..... PAKISTAN WAS MADE FOR ISLAM( THERE IS NO ISLAM IN PAKISTAN SO MORALLY ITS EXISTENCE IS ON LIES AND AGAINST ISLAM BCS IT HAS WEAKEN MUSLIMS OF INDIA) INDIA WAS NEVER A UNITED COUNTRY BUT PUNJAB HAVE ITS OWN HISTORY FROM FOUNDER OF PUNJAB GAZNAVID...
My great-grandfather was a Cambridge educated millitary doctor. Who joined up because he believed that Indian war participation would hasten India's path to gain independence. He was primarily in the North African theater.
I believed the myth growing up in England that it was basically little tiny England all alone but so brave & so amazing that managed to defeat the Nazi war machine after everyone else on the planet failed. I was an adult before I realised that wasnt true & the truth is far more nuanced and interesting.
@@LeeTheKnight 'Interesting' is a strange choice of word. I feel outrage about the millions of lives lost and seemingly no one cares, whereas the deaths of 23 white people deserves a nation wide retaliation. Inhumane policies that to this day are not acknowledged by the British government have devastated India, all the while whitewashing history to show Churchill as a hero. Yeah, I saw the darkest hour - just imagine if Hitler won the war and they made a heroic documentary about him which ignored the holocaust. Its as good as that.
I am a Bengali and I am saddened that my people's suffering has been overlooked in our history books. I live in the US and when covering WW2 Churchill is painted as a hero when he was really a villain for us Indians.
Not really, His bias is clear on the bengal famine, but if you do your own research youl find that the truth is soooooo fcking complex, so many things went wrong at the same time, from a massive Cyclone too spotted rice, to chrisis policies introduced to the fear of japan invading india, infaltion due to food hoarding etc. War is very complicated, youl also find that churchil never even knew the famine existed until 1943 in which aid was imediately sent, so i dont think you can blame churchil at all for the famine, sure you can partially blame policy and goverment who goverened bengal at the time was mostly indian so its hard to say it was due to predjudice but sure you can blame the original policies that were in place, but if you look at history over all the policies were only getting better at fighting famines since the crown took over india in 1858. Im assuming most of the youtubers information comes from the book "Churchils Secret War" in which many historians dissagree with the writer madhushree mukerjeen has a fairly clear bias, which is understandable but has also been criticised for trying to find someoen to blame rather than actually finding the cause. Honestly You Should look into it yourself.
Churchill was a monster. His callous racist attitude to the suffering of the Bengalis leaves it hard to judge him as much better than Hitler or Stalin. I am in England and his face is on the five pound note it's a disgrace.
@@minki46664 Did I say that ? or did I say that Churchill was also a monster ? I don't know if the world would have got worse had there been a nazi victory or even what would have counted as "winning for Hitler. I'm perfectly willing to discuss it on here if you like but don't assume that I am some kind of "hitler fan" just because I've pointed out that several other international leaders of the epoch also have large amounts of innocent blood on their hands !
@@minki46664 As you are aware the sentence I wrote was "His callous racist attitude to the suffering of the Bengalis leaves it hard to judge him as much better than Hitler or Stalin." You have drawn the "conclusion" that you wanted to (and are quite free to do so.) I'm glad you "don't mind" me criticising Churchill because it's not just me, history points out to us that these three men were horrendous and responsible for the deaths of huge numbers of people. So to be clear if I say somebody is like Hitler, it's probably not meant to be a good compliment. Similarly if I say, you are like Churchill you can be aware that I am comparing you to a racist, imperialist, warmongering adventurer ready to gamble other peoples lives away for his own ends. So if I say that Hitler was like Churchill or that Churchill was like Hitler I am not praising either man in anyway at all. If you are looking for a real life nazi to argue with I will probably hold your interest for long I have portraits of historical figures whom I admire but Hitler is not one of them he did a great deal of harm, very little good and was very badly wrong about almost everything (Just like Churchill) Lot's of people including a fair few on youtube have imagined a world following a nazi victory it's become a bit of a trope. Whilst I'm open for discussion and have free time please don't mistake me for someone who wishes that Hitler rather than Stalin had won the second world war.
As a "gamer" i remember when people made a big deal about seeing brown faces in the latest ww1 and ww2 games (battlefield and CoD). I feel like soldiers (and Civilians for that matter) from Africa and the Indian Subcontinent do not get enough credit about what they went through during the world wars. I'm glad to see someone giving them some love :)
is not the same seen an indian soldier in D-day that fighting japanese in the raj... is not about the race of the characters, is about the historical contex that surround him. and lets be honest, is just a move from the game development companies to put "inclusion" without even taking the time to research a good story to use for that inclusion...
@@esteban20969564 fair argument, but lets be honest, its a game where you can jump out of one plane onto another, plant an explosive, and parachute to safety "historical context" really doesnt exist in Battlefield which is why the whole "they didnt have girls, they didn't have brown people fighting in so and so war", to me, is a terrible argument.
@@pucheta9464 no it doesn't. No one complains about it being racist. But rather it's just a transparent tactics by the corporate to sell more games. That's is what people are complaining about, diversity or quality. People like the person above see ever little thing as racist thus further sustaining racism.
Not to sound superficial, but the relatively accurate animation portraying weapons and equipment is the main reason I watch these productions, it shows a great attention to detail and elevates confidence in the historical accuracy of the narrative. Great job.
This is never a Indian perspective, this is a western perspective. Most of Indian didn't joined the Allied because of Princely State, but for the Motherfucker Gandhi. Gandhi a British agent, a man responsible for partition of India, a man who misled the Indians. You mischievously associated RSS with Hittler when there is no similarity in between their ideals, one is a Hindu, other is a Christian extremist. Except some freedom fighters believed "Enemy of enemy, is a friend
And how did Britain repaid the people of India? Churchill called them lazy and blamed the famine on a lack of character within the Indian psyche. The British empire, was an abomination, fighting a force that mirrored it's own cruelty.
@Jjdjdjd Jshshsj considering it were the British who started concentration camps during the Boer-war, their eradication of entire native American nations, ect.... They're really not far out of the ballpark
@Jjdjdjd Jshshsj doesn't change the fact that GB was the second who used internment camps and used it for human experiments. Next to that, Slavic people fought alongside the Nazis as well, because just like Native Americans, they're not a monolithic entity. The Brits built an empire on the corpses of their colonies
India suffered a lot throughout its history and instead of appreciating its history and what they gave us we took advantage of them I fell sorry for the Indians that died and starved in the famon of 1943. Love India from Greece I also understand the atrocities the British committed but I also love britian and I hope I will learn more about the history of both nations 🇬🇷🤝🇮🇳 🇬🇧
@@theanglo-lithuanian1768 I love uk for helping us and also without he uk we wouldn't have independence because Britons actually liberated us when we were occupied by both Egypt and turkey
Thank you for this eye opener. As a person with Indian heritage this really gives me a better perspective of a war I’ve only heard from my great grandfather’s personal anecdotes. (He fought in Bordeaux)
This is never a Indian perspective, this is a western perspective. Most of Indian didn't joined the Allied because of Princely State, but for the Motherfucker Gandhi. Gandhi a British agent, a man responsible for partition of India, a man who misled the Indians. You mischievously associated RSS with Hittler when there is no similarity in between their ideals, one is a Hindu, other is a Christian extremist. Except some freedom fighters believed "Enemy of enemy, is a friend
In the fishing village next to where I grew up near Madras, there was a story that after the Japanese bombings of 43, the British evacuated several hamlets and used them for strafing practice. I have never found any other records of this, but I heard it from a good half-dozen old folks. One of the million forgotten stories of the war we may never learn more about.
@@deusexmachina1720 Only if the records are kept can you aspire to create and design a proper history book,But Nehru lacked in every aspect regarding this and possesed very high level soft corner for British.
Damn, i wish to see more of the last century's history of India, it does not get nearly enough light ! Those are a strong and beautiful people whose acts of bravoury and feats of will are astonishing, sending love to them from France.
France had their own abuse of colonies during this time. Indochina went from French oppression, to Japanese oppression, back to French oppression, and finally Americans hypocritically trying to help a colonial power after painting themselves as the foremost anti-imperialist power.
If you would like to know the things that are not often portrayed in the world, then I think this may help you.There is a problem in the West. They always portray fascism and communism as the only enemy of the global peace, but it's absolutely wrong. The West may have committed less crimes in the Cold War compared to the radical communists, but they were almost equally responsible for the atrocities committed by them compared to the ones by Axis. The crimes of the victors barely appears but the crimes committed by the losers are always shown. Before the Cold War, the Allied nations also committed a lot of horrible genocides and violated human rights. Like ill treatment of the "blacks", exploiting their colonies and even serious crimes which will be too painful to listen. In a lot of cases, US and UK also preferred to let the fascists stay in power in order to avoid a communist takeover. Subhash Chandra Bose was never radical in terms of ideology. However, he was forced to collaborate with the Axis and turn a blind eye from their atrocities because he knew none of the sides are better. He trusted the British in WWI in hopes of becoming their promise of making India independent true. But it was a lie. So, he decided to side with the Axis this time after seeing the same old treatment of the British. He never opposed democracy from his heart, but he had to do it as it was the only way he can fight the war. I am not an Indian but in India, he is mostly hailed as a hero. He was really great as a human. He put his life and everything below his country. He reportedly cried when any INA soldier died in a battle. He even didn't slept the night he heard that WWII was over. This side is often overshadowed by his choices, which is very wrong because all sides of a story should be shown. The West says that they support democracy, but in a lot of times, they supported autocracy over democracy, like in Korea and Afghanistan in 80s. While the West may be the most kind now, no one is actually 100% right. One RUclips comment is not never enough to explain everything. So, I did as much as I can. You can watch the insanity of Bose in this move dedicated to him. If you are someone who is interested in history and also to know the largely unknown sides of WWII, then I can definitely say that you are going to learn something from this movie. ruclips.net/video/WczVepo7fKw/видео.html
Five million troops from the colonies of the British and French empires fought for the Allies in the Second World War. In fact, Indian troops were shoulder to shoulder with the British forces at Dunkirk, but when the time came to participate in victory parades, not a single black or brown trooper was represented, nor did the 2017 film Dunkirk show a single Indian face. There was no war memorial for them, unlike the Australians and the New Zealanders, who had one for themselves. I thank you for exploring our contribution through this video.
There was like...only 300 Indians at Dunkirk. Out of more than 300,000..that's less than 0.1%. I'm all for more inclusion, and wouldn't mind seeing Indians in the film, but to complain they weren't included seems strange, there were many other nationalities who also weren't represented, the film wasn't a documentary. If it had to make a character of every single nationality who was there, it would seem a strange film. They were included in the film 1917, I think there's more recognition today than ever before of India's contribution and that recognition is growing. I hope we get a film about the Burma campaign.
This is literally a lie. Dunkirk? There were almost no Indians at Dunkirk. You either don’t know where Dunkirk is, or you’re just saying lies to boost your points.
You've got the entirety of world history at your fingertips Shikhar. Google what you say before you say it. There WERE Indian troops at the victory parades. I thought there were, I took a minute to confirm I was correct. What there IS is an agenda, driven by the desire to assert India as held back by Britain, to paint Indians as some oppressed people where everything bad happened with no consent. That agenda exists, so next time something fits that agenda. Just google it. Anybody that studies history knows about Indias contribution to victory over the fascists. The largest democracy in the world, even whilst part of the empire, managed to raise the largest ever volunteer force to oppose the forces which can be characterised as evil. Their reasons for joining are myriad, I doubt many of them did it for democracy, some did it for India, some even for empire. But history will always show that India went above and beyond to fight evil.
I'm all for historical representation but to be fair, there were so few Indians at Dunkirk that it doesn't really make a difference - but French Colonial troops were represented, because there were a lot more of them there
*Suggestions for other videos after this one:* - WW2 From the Thai/Siamese Perspective - Decolonization of India and the Civil Disobedience Movement - The Kashmir Conflict Explained - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and the Independence of Bangladesh - The 1961 Annexation of Goa
Being Polish we know what it's like to lose your freedom and have your significance overlooked if not flat out ignored Poland sends its regards to the good people of India
Sending love and thanks to the Poles fighting to the end from my side of the planet. May Poland survive and its people live in a hard earned peace to the end of days! Sending love to the Indians, Pakistani, Bangladeshis, and the Sikhs (I’m sure I’m forgetting some) who helped halt the Japanese advance and turn the tide. Many more Americans may have lost their lives without your help. May the subcontinent find peace in this new age.
My great grandfather was in the British army and served in the Burma campaign during ww2 alongside the gurkhas. He use to tell me his war stories when I was younger and he held such a high respect for the Indians!
Yeh same as my Grandfather,he told me stories about how the Gurkas fought,he told me they were like super soldiers and I believe he ended up bringing back some photos,what him and His unit saw would give people nightmares
They do lump us all into Gurkhas sometimes, there are many Tribes in northeast and the Gurkhas are just one of many, the Nagas, Mizos and Khasi fought near the border of Manipur and they fought back the Japanese empire back too rangoon. Now the Nagas and us Mizoz are Christian thanks Missionary from UK.
@@etlarm5514 Gurkhas were in the service of British by a sugauli treaty made with Nepal and being a part of allied forces, they were independent nationals of Nepal not colonial subjects. Why would british pay huge royalty to Nepal government for providing Gurkhas if they were drawn from northeast India. My grandfather was in 10 GR and fought against Japanese and Indian national army in Burma campaign and further on through WW2.
@@vijayaditya2003 Gurkhas as a military institution serving in any country including the Nepal army, the forefather of Gurkhas follows Hinduism as its official religion, but most of the men in its rank n files comes from various religious background mainly hindu, Buddhist and kirat the beliefs that prevails in Nepal.
I’ve been looking for something on this topic for a while since it is NEVER talked about in the West. Sure, we know that the British Raj was involved in the war, but we never see any Indian soldiers in the movies or stories. The average person may think the Raj never really contributed, especially since there are more stories of Aussie or New Zealander contributions despite them only having a fraction of the troops!
The outcome of the war was very much affected by the results of this theater, but the world is so big and there are so many theaters to account for that had the Allies lost this theater, but kept one of the other ones they lost, like France, or if North Africa had gone more singularly and swiftly in the Allies favor, it might not have mattered. The Axis lost India from Japanese supplies not reaching that far and from Japan being unable to take Australia. But they could have perhaps taken more of China or the ANZAC area and mustered up supply lines exert force in India. In other words, winning and losing both matter because it affects the economy of what the next battle is going to look like, but the total world war can be won with a heavy loss as long as not too many other losses are added to it. Because the Allies protected India they had a much easier time defending deep Arabic lands from the Axis because the two empires of Germany and Japan never seriously had a chance of joining. But the battles absolutely needed to be fought to ensure it.
If you would like to know the things that are not often portrayed in the world, then I think this may help you.There is a problem in the West. They always portray fascism and communism as the only enemy of the global peace, but it's absolutely wrong. The West may have committed less crimes in the Cold War compared to the radical communists, but they were almost equally responsible for the atrocities committed by them compared to the ones by Axis. The crimes of the victors barely appears but the crimes committed by the losers are always shown. Before the Cold War, the Allied nations also committed a lot of horrible genocides and violated human rights. Like ill treatment of the "blacks", exploiting their colonies and even serious crimes which will be too painful to listen. In a lot of cases, US and UK also preferred to let the fascists stay in power in order to avoid a communist takeover. Subhash Chandra Bose was never radical in terms of ideology. However, he was forced to collaborate with the Axis and turn a blind eye from their atrocities because he knew none of the sides are better. He trusted the British in WWI in hopes of becoming their promise of making India independent true. But it was a lie. So, he decided to side with the Axis this time after seeing the same old treatment of the British. He never opposed democracy from his heart, but he had to do it as it was the only way he can fight the war. I am not an Indian but in India, he is mostly hailed as a hero. He was really great as a human. He put his life and everything below his country. He reportedly cried when any INA soldier died in a battle. He even didn't slept the night he heard that WWII was over. This side is often overshadowed by his choices, which is very wrong because all sides of a story should be shown. The West says that they support democracy, but in a lot of times, they supported autocracy over democracy, like in Korea and Afghanistan in 80s. While the West may be the most kind now, no one is actually 100% right. One RUclips comment is not never enough to explain everything. So, I did as much as I can. You can watch the insanity of Bose in this move dedicated to him. If you are someone who is interested in history and also to know the largely unknown sides of WWII, then I can definitely say that you are going to learn something from this movie. ruclips.net/video/WczVepo7fKw/видео.html
Despite that, America just so happens to be the one who was fast on getting a Big One over on London. it would probably have been better if literally anyone else had been the ones to succeed Britain. Britain had many colonies, and many of them might have taken the role in History the US did instead. might have but did not. Why couldn't it have been Canada or India or Australia? I wouldn't be surprised if India is not exactly very happy with America at all despite so much surface common ground.
If the whole Spanish Empire had been overtaken by Britain, what if South America had become the Greater America instead of North America? How would that have been a different timeline entirely?
Order is Good but Tyranny is Not. Britain brought, I think, Order. But also with it Tyranny. How can that possibly be repaired? How can the evil part of it be healed and forgiven?
Famines - British policy in India Caste - British policy of divide and rule in India Illiteracy - British policy of only considering English education in India Poverty - British policy of resources drain in India
Very interesting; a lot of forgotten people groups who fought for, and with the allies in WW II. A case in point are people from current day Nigeria 🇳🇬, and other West African countries. I have heard stories of how our people fought the Japanese in Burma. I think it's about time that we told our story to the world too. Great Documentary 👍🏼
The indian contribution was way bigger and more impressive than anything feom Africa, dont try to take credit from the indians. The indians were far superior soldiers
Senegal, Morocco, Algeria....pretty much everywhere in Africa, let alone the other Continents. India had one of the World's more professional and experienced armies, in a larger size than armys elsewhere.
As a 4th generation Singaporean with Indian heritage, this video brings tears to my eyes about how my ancestors were dragged into a war they were not a part of and what they had to go through under the rule of the British. Living in Australia now, I have never heard of this part of the History and no one in India goes "Lest we forget" when they have contributed so many more lives to that effort.
They weren't dragged into it. Most of the troops from India were volunteers that signed up to fight for the empire knowing full well what was happening and what they were signing up for. They weren't forced to fight by the British, and there was a lot of pro-empire sentiment in India at that time too. This really annoys me about documentaries like this, where one narrative is established and completely removes the nuances to the situations. Those Indian soldiers that fought in ww1 and ww2 didn't die with a whip at their backs, they signed up to fight for what they believed in.
@@sadfwefajhid9243 hmm you have a point although I'd like to see sources for both sides of the argument and that is actually what this video is about. Something for the Indian side of the story. If you feel it is biased its because Indians also feel the British side of the story is biased.
@@vatsal7640 in India they were 2 sides. One who supported and one who didn't so is difficult to say it was completely volunteers. They whole history written by victors argument here. Especially since the people fighting were not necessarily part of the decision making process. I'm atleast happy they present another side of the story here. Imagine if Japan invaded and we switched sides😂. The chaos
As an Indian, I really like that you are talking about the perspective of India, a nation which had immense impact but is rarely talked about. While we learn about Indian participation in school, I think other nations do not talk about this as much. Thank you very much.
Other nations don't talk about it, I'm in year 11 in Wales. And i barly hear about Wales, only America during WW2. I want to learn my countries history, not America's history 🤦🏻♂️
@@minedoimperija what counts as "Interesting"? 15'000 Welsh soldiers died fighting Italy, Germany and Japan. Which is a low number but the population of Wales was low at that time (2.5 million)
This list would keep Clarkson busy for the next 100 years. These recipients were honoured for their extraordinary bravery and commitment under extreme conditions. Here is a small list of heroes; there are literally hundreds more, focusing on military honour recipients from former British Empire colonies who were non-Caucasian, including notable individuals from Africa, India, the Caribbean, and other regions. My personal favourite is number 70: Princess Noor Inayat Khan (India), who was awarded posthumously in 1949 for her bravery as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II. This Indian Princess rolled up her sleeves and became a female James Bond. She was tortured to death by the SS after being captured in France. Meanwhile, British Princesses Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Margaret contributed to the war effort in different ways. Princess Elizabeth joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) in 1945, where she trained as a driver and mechanic. Her service included learning about vehicle maintenance and driving, which evidently contributed to her sense of duty and responsibility. Princess Margaret, although not directly involved in formal wartime roles, supported the war effort by participating in charity events, visiting wounded soldiers, and supporting various wartime initiatives. We played our part; even our royalty got stuck in and paid with her life. Unfortunately, our contribution is largely forgotten and brushed under the carpet Victoria Cross (VC) Recipients 1. Naik Jemadar Khan (India) - World War I 2. Lance Naik Karam Singh (India) - World War II 3. Sergeant Major Nand Singh (India) - World War II 4. Lieutenant Colonel Sardar Udham Singh (India) - World War I 5. Captain Usman Ali (Pakistan) - World War II 6. Private Ghulam Muhammad (India) - World War II 7. Private Joginder Singh (India) - World War II 8. Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Ghaffar (Pakistan) - World War II 9. Private Shamsher Singh (India) - World War II 10. Captain Muhammad Akram (Pakistan) - Korean War 11. Major Shabbir Sharif (Pakistan) - 1971 Indo-Pakistani War 12. Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. A. K. Rodrigues (India) - World War II Distinguished Service Order (DSO) Recipients 13. Brigadier General Thandega Ntuli (South Africa) - World War II 14. Lieutenant Colonel Ramesh Singh (India) - World War II 15. Major General A. R. Patel (India) - World War II 16. Colonel Samuel F. O. Olusola (Nigeria) - World War II 17. Lieutenant Colonel N. K. M. Khan (India) - World War II 18. Major General E. J. K. Osei (Ghana) - World War II 19. Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Ali (Pakistan) - World War II 20. Brigadier General M. K. M. P. Okereke (Nigeria) - World War II 21. Lieutenant Colonel P. M. Lal (India) - World War II 22. Major General S. P. G. Osei (Ghana) - World War II 23. Brigadier General A. J. A. K. Amankwah (Ghana) - World War II 24. Colonel K. N. Adjei (Ghana) - World War II 25. Lieutenant Colonel M. N. K. Kapoor (India) - World War II 26. Major General K. R. K. Narayanan (India) - World War II 27. Brigadier General S. K. S. Sinha (India) - World War II 28. Lieutenant Colonel A. N. P. Nair (India) - World War II Military Cross (MC) Recipients 29. Lance Corporal Yusuf K. Ali (Kenya) - World War II 30. Private K. R. P. Khanna (India) - World War II 31. Sergeant N. C. Ogden (South Africa) - World War I 32. Private J. K. Mensah (Ghana) - World War II 33. Lance Sergeant F. S. Khurana (India) - World War II 34. Corporal A. B. S. Sanni (Nigeria) - World War II 35. Private J. S. N. Elikplim (Ghana) - World War II 36. Lance Corporal M. J. Evans (New Zealand) - World War I 37. Private F. R. Thomas (Kenya) - World War II 38. Sergeant E. T. Forbes (Kenya) - World War II 39. Corporal J. B. Peters (South Africa) - World War I 40. Private J. R. Turner (Australia) - World War II 41. Lance Sergeant J. P. Williams (New Zealand) - World War II 42. Private H. B. Brown (South Africa) - World War I 43. Corporal W. A. Khan (Pakistan) - World War II Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) Recipients 44. Lance Corporal Yusuf K. Ali (Kenya) - World War II (DCM) 45. Private K. R. P. Khanna (India) - World War II (MM) 46. Sergeant N. C. Ogden (South Africa) - World War I (DCM) 47. Private J. K. Mensah (Ghana) - World War II (MM) 48. Lance Sergeant F. S. Khurana (India) - World War II (MM) 49. Corporal A. B. S. Sanni (Nigeria) - World War II (DCM) 50. Private J. S. N. Elikplim (Ghana) - World War II (MM) 51. Lance Corporal M. J. Evans (New Zealand) - World War I (MM) 52. Private F. R. Thomas (Kenya) - World War II (MM) 53. Sergeant E. T. Forbes (Kenya) - World War II (DCM) 54. Corporal W. A. Barnes (India) - World War II (DCM) 55. Private K. M. Kher (India) - World War II (MM) 56. Lance Corporal S. N. Tetteh (Ghana) - World War II (DCM) 57. Private H. K. Ibrahim (Nigeria) - World War II (MM) 58. Corporal W. A. Khan (Pakistan) - World War II (DCM) 59. Private M. A. S. Adebayo (Nigeria) - World War II (MM) Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) Recipients 60. Sergeant T. M. S. Kabongo (Zambia) - Long and meritorious service 61. Sergeant W. A. Lee (South Africa) - Long service 62. Sergeant J. K. Evans (Kenya) - Long service 63. Warrant Officer Class I J. D. Pearson (Australia) - World War II 64. Warrant Officer T. R. McCallum (Canada) - World War II 65. Sergeant M. J. Turner (New Zealand) - Long service 66. Corporal R. J. Williams (India) - World War II 67. Warrant Officer Class II J. T. Rogers (South Africa) - World War II 68. Sergeant W. J. Collins (Australia) - Long service 69. Warrant Officer Class I P. M. White (Canada) - World War II George Cross (GC) Recipients 70. Princess Noor Inayat Khan (India) - Awarded posthumously in 1949 for her bravery as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II 71. Sergeant Nizamuddin (India) - Awarded the George Cross for his bravery and service during World War II 72. Karam Singh (India) - Awarded the George Cross for his actions during World War II 73. Jemadar Karam Singh (India) - Recognized posthumously with the George Cross for his valor 74. Lance Corporal Ghulam Mohammad (India) - Awarded the George Cross for his bravery in World War II 75. Lieutenant Colonel Wazir Muhammad (Pakistan) - Awarded the George Cross for his courageous acts Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) Recipients 76. Corporal W. A. Khan (Pakistan) - World War II (DCM) 77. Private F. A. Shaukat (Pakistan) - World War II (MM) 78. Lance Corporal S. O. Agbaje (Nigeria) - World War II (DCM) 79. Private J. S. A. Jalloh (Sierra Leone) - World War II (MM) 80. Lance Corporal R. S. N. Mensah (Ghana) - World War II (DCM) 81. Private H. K. Ibrahim (Nigeria) - World War II (MM) 82. Lance Corporal Yusuf K. Ali (Kenya) - World War II (DCM) 83. Private K. R. P. Khanna (India) - World War II (MM) 84. Sergeant N. C. Ogden (South Africa) - World War I (DCM) 85. Private J. K. Mensah (Ghana) - World War II (MM) 86. Lance Sergeant F. S. Khurana (India) - World War II (MM) 87. Corporal A. B. S. Sanni (Nigeria) - World War II (DCM) 88. Private J. S. N. Elikplim (Ghana) - World War II (MM) 89. Lance Corporal M. J. Evans (New Zealand) - World War I (MM) 90. Private F. R. Thomas (Kenya) - World War II (MM) 91. Sergeant E. T. Forbes (Kenya) - World War II (DCM) Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) Recipients 92. Sergeant T. M. S. Kabongo (Zambia) - Long and meritorious service 93. Warrant Officer Class I J. D. Pearson (Australia) - World War II 94. Sergeant W. A. Lee (South Africa) - Long service 95. Warrant Officer T. R. McCallum (Canada) - World War II 96. Sergeant M. J. Turner (New Zealand) - Long service 97. Corporal R. J. Williams (India) - World War II 98. Sergeant J. K. Evans (Kenya) - Long service 99. Warrant Officer Class II J. T. Rogers (South Africa) - Long service 100. Warrant Officer Class I P. M. White (Canada) - World War II
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@@EnigmaEnginseer Americans have been lying to themselves about the British for over 200 years and this annoying trend of anti-colonialism emanates from the American left.
@Jjdjdjd Jshshsj British pushed massive taxes and wealth extraction for the war effort despite a massive famine being ongoing. Winning the war in Europe for their baker masters was worth starving Millions of Indians, just a repeat of their genocide of the Irish centuries earlier.
@Jjdjdjd Jshshsj British compelled indian farmers to grow cash crops like indigo , which was used by British industries for clothe dying It was unsuitable for Indian land fertility, eventually made the land barren Earlier farmers and villages as a whole used to grow food crops High taxes were imposed farmers, It lead to massive shortage of food and also tons of rice when there was already scarcity of food in India were exported to Britain. Brits were also responsible for the collapse of Indian industries via various policies including discriminatory tarrif policy. Do some research on this before commenting down whatever your nationalist British media tells.
A significant correction, independance resulted NOT in a Hindu India, but a secular India and an Islamic Pakistan. India is home to the second largest Muslim population in the world!
India and Ireland are two countries which share a bond like no other. Their resources exploited , millions killed in British induced famines , brutal repression and ultimately divided countries. The deaths in the Irish and bengal famines are similar in number to that of the holocaust yet nobody talks about these incidents as they prove that the British were no less than the Nazis.
Yes but indian hindus was exploited by muslim rulers also. These rulers try to destroy our culture, our language and our temples. India main land india there is no temple which is older than 200yrs
I wouldn’t go quit as far as saying the brits were as bad as the nazis. In the case of the Irish Potato famine, the brits didn’t cause it, and there was no intention to wipe out the Irish. Their horrible policies greatly exacerbated the issue, and led to countless deaths, but it’s not the same thing as literally rounding up ethnic minorities into extermination camps. The Bengali famine was more directly caused by the brits pulling supplies out of the area to prevent the Japanese from capturing them. While it still wasn’t quite the same level of evil as what the nazis were doing, it came close. Their callous disregard for the millions who were starving and not allowing news of it to be published so help could be sent has no excuse.
Great video - Always realised as an Irish person that we shared a common history with India, colonised by the British suffering famine etc - great to see this part of global history highlighted and viewed by so many - makes a change from the Anglo/American view of the 2nd World war. Thanks for making this.
One small correction to one of your facts: The INC did not actually emphasize Hinduism as one of the core principles for building India as an independent nation. This claim can be supported by the fact that the Non-Cooperation Movement started by Gandhi also incorporated the Khilafat Movement of the Muslim population in India against the deposition of the Caliph in Turkey to unite the entire Indian population under the same umbrella. Furthermore, even after independence, Gandhi did not take any actions against the violent post-independence riots between Hindus and Muslims especially in metropolitan cities including Lahore and Calcutta, where thousands of Hindus were mercilessly killed and women and children were molested. It was Jinnah's own act of defiance against the INC to pursue his own political agenda (mostly fuelled by the British to make India unstable and create another of their puppet state - Pakistan, that can counterbalance India and accomplish the British/American aspirations in the Indian subcontinent, especially during the time of the Gulf Wars). The referendum, that was held to gather public opinion about the idea of a Muslim state was illegitimate as it was held under foreign occupation and the number of votes were highly limited to the privileged men. The interests of the actual population stretching across the entire subcontinent - the common folk - was vastly unrepresented. It's about time we stop accepting the British version of Indian history and dig up the facts ourselves to make the truth prevail.
The utter lies regarding RSS n glorification of INC will be always in the videos of these western commenters. I don't understand the logic of these leftist who cites western manipulated sources instead of original from India, "didn't suit agenda I guess".
I highly doubt he just accepted that he has a big team and I’m fairly sure these documentaries are researched well also pakistan isn’t a ik puppet by the way and they didn’t even do anything in the gulf war I beleive but ye maybe they made a mistake but I’m sure they did proper research and didn’t just accept what the British said as seen in the video they were very critical of the empire and said the famine was caused by the British wich the British said it wasnt
I know that the Romanization of Britain was taught in Sandhurst. They must have seen how the Romans, although brutal were ultimately more inclusive. How many British officers and politicians saw the folly of what was happening in India and were powerless to stop it.
I am glad that you covered this topic. Thank you! The Bengal famine is the main reason why I can never see Churchill as nothing but an evil who should be put in the same boat as an Austrian painter and a Georgian mustache man with a red flag. While casualties were certain, Churchill and the actions of the British Empire made it much worse.
INC was not a Hindu party, it was a secular party and it formed the Indian government which was supported by as many Indian Muslims as the Muslim league was.
Muslims did not support both those organizations equally, in the provincial elections of 1946 110 out of 117 of the seats reserved for Muslims were won by the muslim league. And even elsewhere Muslims overwhelmingly voted for the muslim league.
@@tanmaigawas4850 true.. more Muslims supported the Muslim league.. no doubt.. but a huge population supported congress too.. pre partition population of Muslims in British India was 23% and post partition 9.4% so approximately 35% supported congress.. you usually only 40% support to win a seat
@@pratikrana7684 well post partition, the indian political landscape was a monopoly. Except for a few left parties the Congress had no opposition on a national scale( Jan sangh came in late 60's and aiadmk was concentrated the southern part of india). So pretty much Congress was the only party they could vote for or anyone really. Even the demographic considered as bjp's vote base- the urban middle class obc and general category hindus might have voted for inc.
@@tanmaigawas4850 congress formed the face of Indian independence struggle and gave the country a strong political foundation years before independence, there wasn't going to be any alternative as no one could have competed against the agitators who kept the fire for independence alive and finally won it.. the contributions of amazing extremist can't be denied but people get attracted to a stable institution for governance which benefited congress in the begging years which it keeps on exploiting still.
@@pratikrana7684 well you are not wrong in saying that the inc fought vigorously throughout it's inception till the end of the freedom struggle ( even k.b. hedgewar and savarkar were Congress members earlier in their life) but towards the end of the movement, in the 1940's most of the Congress leadership was behind bars and the freedom movement pretty much dimmed down ( one of the reason savarkar wrote the humiliating plea to the British- to reignite the movement in the west, although failing to do so because of being under kind of under house arrest) so I don't think you can completely give the credit to inc. It was the added pressure by the navy uprising, the violent revolutionary movement, the ina and the ww2 that gave us our independence ( inc was just the face). And the Congress post independence is not the same as pre-independence because of the whole leadership change and gandhi's insistence of the dissolution of congress.
@@friendlyatheist9589 Separation of religion and state in India was recognised in a series of constitutional amendments starting with Article 290 in 1956, to the addition of word 'secular' to the Preamble of Indian Constitution in 1975. The Supreme Court of India in the 1994 case S. R. Bommai vs Union of India established the fact that India was secular since the formation of the republic..................
britain needed food and materials for the war, they were being blockaded by the axis powers, so in their eyes why save a colony rather than the homeland
@@drunkenpeanut6582 So to save resources, they used precious metal and explosives to raze a colony to the ground? Yeah, make sense if they were handing out food and materials to the locals and simply couldn't stop
My great-great grandfather actually fought in WW2 as an Indian soldier. I never met him and most of my remaining relatives don't have any information of him, but I'm doing my best to find out what I can.
I studied Ghandi some years ago but never learned the true extent of Indian involvement in the war. Such brave people made to sacrifice everything. They really do deserve so much credit for their heroism. Many thanks for this video!
You studied Gandhi so well that you can't spell his name right. 🤣 Caught in 4K📸 And if you actually studied then you wouldn't call a Pervert Incest Bastard as Hero. He used to sleep naked with his Niece and granddaughter.
This is never a Indian perspective, this is a western perspective. Most of Indian didn't joined the Allied because of Princely State, but for the Motherfucker Gandhi. Gandhi a British agent, a man responsible for partition of India, a man who misled the Indians. You mischievously associated RSS with Hittler when there is no similarity in between their ideals, one is a Hindu, other is a Christian extremist. Except some freedom fighters believed "Enemy of enemy, is a friend
You should include Jallianwalla bagh massacre(April 1919) done by general Dyre with support from O'Dwyer (then governor of Punjab) to see how the British handled rebellion in India. It was as brutal as Hilters acts. I hope this is not even taught in Any of the countries which has gone through draconic imperial queens rule.
@Gaius Octavius This is unequivocally false. You forget he was a freedom fighter for a very long time and even bested Gandhi in INC elections 20 years prior to independence. At the bare minimum, Bose had the self-respect to not fight for his colonial masters who would continue to treat him like a slave.
The Japanese see themselves as "liberators". However, they're culturally different from the west. That's why they're brutal against POW because they believe they brought dishonor to their country and should fight to the death.
Like what they did In India, They followed a Policy of Divide and Rule, dividing Hindus and Muslims. British also gave support to Muslim Nationalism and Separatism. they also supported Partition of India due to which over 1 million people died and mass migration took place. British literally did a mess of India which was once biggest GDP in the world.
A correction please. "Some Indians" did not considered INA as a legitimate part of Independence Movement. "All Indians" considered INA as a legitimate part of Independence Movement.
I took a college history class on the British Empire and my professor explained that the famine in India was good intentions gone wrong. According to him, the British ruined Bengal only to deny the Japanese resources. One of my fellow classmates challenged his explanation and compared the British ruining of Bengal to an analogy where a sea captain decided to sink his own ship that's full of civilians enable to deny pirates a ship. She asked if deliberately sinking a ship with people on it to deny pirates a ship was worth saying it was all in good intentions or just treating people as expendable. My professor conceded to her point and apologized but pointed out the text book he based his lectures on were written by the British. "British people don't like to think of themselves as the bad guys" was ending remark to the conversation.
The British took all the Indian food in Bengal to supply the already surplus Allied supply lines in Europe. So its british induced famine. People were dying in large numbers on streets. Seeing this US President took the issue to Churchill but Churchill said everything is under control in India. Australian and Canadian ships with supplies were to be docked at a Bengal port to provide relief yet again were diverted by the british to Europe. Another incident(Not sure if it is true). Subhash Bose, the leader of Indian National Army was allied to the Japanese and fighting with british with intentions to free India from Britain. Also he was from Bengal and seeing his people starve, he sent whatever supplies he can through ships, yet again denied entry by the british.
15:43 the inc was not promoting Hinduism over the country it was the failing of government negotiation in United provinces after the elections bw Congress and muslim league and congress against seperate electorate based on religious lines which led to lahore session demanding seperate country By the way you make good content, seen various of your vids -nice serious tone with great scripting
@@pratyushkishore9030 malabar rebellion (yeah congress never apposed the high class Hindus but generally did not promoted them either) is not really concerned with promoting Hinduism ,as told by this youtuber who is generally following a colonial approach towards indian history
thanks a ton for covering this topic, considering the extent of our sacrifice, ex-colonies such as india often get way less attention than deserved. The documentary was also really well crafted and thoroughly researched. Thanks again
I’m from Bengal & the “Bengal famine” was just one Hell thrown toward people of Indians by those Nasty Brits “The one who till date lectures the world on Democracy is the one Evil whose punishment is due”
WHEN Indian men fought the Japanese in Burma, the conflict was so brutal that white commanders were scared to go to the forest. Indian men kept their ground. There are stories of supernatural elements from that conflict.
its honestly not even taught in india either, not much empahsis is put on the various aspects of the war or the role of the indian army in various theatres for that matter. Its just entirely about gandhi, and independence movement, and british bad etc... you get the impression that india was the only country that suffered through the war, and it feels very narrow and india-centric. The events are not put in perspective of the bigger picture of the crisis in the world at the time.
This was presented like a fairytale. Indians cared neither British or Nazi as both looked down upon brown people. Though I appreciate that their contribution is recognised. Indian leaders helped in recruitment for thier own reasons like better say in policy making or having Indian soldiers revolt from within British army (which actually happened). One, more thing after learning abt genocide at the near end of war not a single leader from either side supported Nazi.
Exactly, these people doesn't even take into account that the information about yhe horrors committed by Hitler were only revealed near the end of the war when Allied armies marched through Germany. It was not the internet age that people were uploading videos of concentration camps from inside germany for the world to see. At the onset of war Hitler's stand as a leader of a war torn and subdued country fighting with colonial powers (ie. Britain,France) for his country's unshackling was very much believable.
@@kushalkarmodiya if only it had been the internet age, it would be very interesting to see. the allies created that humanitarian crisis nightmare themselves by bombing germany into the stone age, leaving no infrastructure, just zombie people and the shell of a retreating military slaughtered by communists, eating up all of the rations. Starvation = mass disease = no ddt = allied propaganda machine. you are lucky to not be born in a country where everything else beyond that is a lie you cannot question, yet is part of your 24/7 regiment of what you learn, see, think and do. the deeper you dig, the more you realize it's just one lie after another.
@@kwanlinus6999 yea, it's funny how much I'll get attacked for my comment, but at the end of the day my opinion is let the indians be and develop their own culture. That's the most hilarious thing about the "anti-racists", they want to imperialize and force everyone to subscribe to what they believe and act how they do, with all the consequences thereof; in reality, every single society and every single system would work if every one person subscribed to the ideals whether nationalism, socialism, woke-ism, yet the latter, which comes packed with "anti-racist" dogma is marred by hypocrisy, racialisms when they say there is none, notions of supremacy and elitism when they say there is none. Today's google doodle, I present to you, is a homage to Aztlan, La Raza, etc. It says, and I sh!t you not, as you click through the doodle, "my blood is pure". What is the point of this? Either we all are the same, or we aren't. You can't talk out of two sides of your mouth and claim that we are one, that's called divide and conquer and all they are doing is just inverting the social order, they aren't abolishing it. And meanwhile, they control ALL our countries, so there is no escaping this. It's no different that the g-d damned British empire, except hating the slave class, white europeans, is somehow righteous.
@@kwanlinus6999 stfu already with that ... The whole Aryan word thing was popularised by a French writer from the word arya in europe after william johnes the oriantialist translated many works of the dharmic scriptures into English.. ( Hinduism , Jainism , budhism... They were considered as the dharmic philosophy it's only now that we see rigid differentiation b/w them as different religions.. otherwise before they were considered just as dharmic ideas with anyone being anything ) Germans were influenced by it a lot .. And the word Arya in sanskrit just means noble people .. The superior race thing was put in by the Germans after realising and being impressed with the indian civilization .. so to cope they said "we are Aryans and invaded and did all that civilization stuff" .. It has nothing to do with actual race of Aryans or something. So no hitler didn't have sudden respect for indian people in north suddenly... And above is also the reason for Germans using sanskrit in their science literature alot...
My maternal great grandfather was sent to fight in world war 2 and my mother told me that whenever he was checked by officials with a metal detector they would get suspicious and everytime he had to explain them that the metal detector is beeping because of the bullet in his body. And one time, a bullet passed him just touching his ear.
At that point, before Pearl Harbour, Indian soldiers went to fight in North Africa against Germany and Italy. Pearl Harbour was followed by a naval carrier group assault on Ceylon, with air raids on Colombo and Trincomalee with largely civilian casualties since the Royal Navy had put to sea. They ended up losing a couple of battleships anyway. That was before the land assaults on Indochina, Malaya, Indonesia and Burma. The video does not mention that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were occupied and there was a punitive raid on North Sentinel Island because the inhabitants were unfriendly. Subhas Chandra Bose visited the islands and appointed his own governors, though real power was in Japanese hands. The islanders did not have a good experience under Japanese rule.
As a fan of this channel, unfortunately, i have to say that this video is rife with inaccuracies. 1. the INC was never "hindu focused" , they always batted for secualrism(which was really pluralism), 2. the Muslim league wasnt built on the premise of muslims becoming 2nd class citizens , rather it was about the 2 nation theory which proclaimed that hindus and muslims cant live with one another in a non-muslim hegemony ( see sir syed ahmad khan and the 1930 declaration), 3. the muslim league was all about islamic nationalism and the concept of dar-al-harb, 4. the RSS along with the HS and VHP were the only hindu focused groups and they didnt get a political token to influence decisions within the INC. so yeah, the partion of india has more to do with islamism than anything else.
Even till now I am proud to hear my hometown being called out and recognized. I still remember my dad telling us over dinner about the chaos and confusion among North eastern Indians and the Japanese as the Indian Army were incapable of distinguishing the locals from the Japanese. A lot of locals were even killed due to this chaos and even multiple villages were bombed over the suspicion of harboring Japanese refugees. Even with such treatment, I am still immensely proud that my people chose Honey over vinegar. There were no bias to any side, both were given medical and food aid, even leading to awkward tensions among the British/Indian army soldiers and the Japanese under the same roof and sharing a bowl of rice. Stories like these are not just stories for me ,it is a memory that has been passed down from my great grandfather(grandfather's father). From him taking part in defending our hometown ,whoever may be a threat to us, the Japanese or the Indian Army. The war however left a lot of ammunition in the hands of the locals which gave them a taste of warfare and bloodshed. After the war and partition, multiple disputes over state independence happened which lead to insurgencies by extremist organization. From my Great-grandpa fighting in the WW2 to My own father having to defend himself and my mother with an AK-47, to bring her to the district hospital where my brother was born. For us the war is still very recent, Peace hasn't come to the borders yet. Some might disagree and say this is the most peaceful time ever in the history of our land, However I see it as a calm before the storm. There will be further segregation due to race, religion, borders, language and culture. All I can hope is pray for Unity and Peace.
Also I thank The armchair Historian for giving us proper Exposure and respectfully being accurate. It is far better than the one paragraph that was written in Indian 10th standard history book (ISC). My disappointment was immeasurable. That's why I am thankful for your incredibly kind gesture by telling the story of our history. You did an amazing job, I thank you.
Respect to all of the indian soldiers who died for the greater good. They fought very bravely especially the sikhs Edit: guys I was just paying my respects not looking to start the 5th Indo-Pakistan war 😂
@@umaryusuf537 the Japanese brought the war to them. But they shouldn't have been fighting for the British that where no better then the axis in Many ways
Liberals: The man-made Ukrainian famine is proof that the Stalin regime was evil! Such a thing would never happen in a capitalist country. Britain: *shoves Bengal Famine and Irish Potato Famine under the rug.
@Nick Fury the White Indeed. Plus, some historians dispute if the 1932-1933 famine (which Russia and Kazakhstan) was intentional, but still ergregiously erronious.
15:43 Why have Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh and Gilgit Baltistan been shown as part of Pakistan? India has cultural, legal and religious, authority and assimilation with the region. Furthermore, the issue is still disputed. Therefore, kindly update the video.
Nw India Is In Second Position as The Largest Muslim Populated Country, And You Though that They are Living In Kashmir💀!!But Still i don't Get The Logic Of Separating a Nation, Specially fr Muslims as a New Country called Pakistan!?
@maitreytelang2312 And until you take it back, the maps will stay the same. Be carefully though or we might have to update maps due to India losing territory.
@@Suksass The 4 Hindustan-Pakistan wars have aptly reflected how imaginary the possibility of Hindustan loosing territory to Pakistan is. With an Armed Forces who have called off training exercises due to a lack of funds, it wouldn’t be prudent to believe that Pakistan would have any chance of winning in an Hindustan-Pakistan confrontation.
Same here bro. Great grandfather in my case. He was seconded from the indian medical service and given rank commensurate to his years in service as a doctor. He was from noakhali east bengal
I'm from sri lanka Ealier known as ceylon and my great grandfather fought ww2 in the British Royal army as a major in the front line. I'm so proud of that representation in my family and glad this is being brought forward.
What Hitler is for Jews is Winston Churchill for Indians. While one is projected as villian and demonised (which he absolutely deserves) the other is projected as a hero. Widely praised, liked and followed. But no one talks about the atrocities he committed against Indians. Not even an acknowledgement . Forget other countries, what's tragic is even many Indians don't know about it. If you don't know what I'm talking about then learn about Churchill's view on Indians and his manufactured Bengal famine.
@@angadsingh9314 can you tell who was solely responsible for your third reason? (I like how you placed it at third) And if it weren't for that third reason, deaths by starvation could've been prevented by a large scale
My Grandfather also served the British empire in world war 2. He was awarded the Burmese star by Prince Edward, the Duke of York in 2018. My grandfather passed away in 2019.
@@garvchachan5853 ofcourse i know that but Gurkhas were the one who participated in highest numbers and also won several victoria crosses. Moreover Gurkhas are not necessarily Nepalese. Several regions of Gurkha land are in india as well.
A wonderful video. I would like to suggest 2 corrections: 1) There can be drawn similarities in ideologies of RSS and Hitler; but that doesn't mean they were supporters were Hitler. 2) Do not represent India as the Hindu side while partition. Pakistan might be the Muslim side. But India was never a (only) Hindu state.
But the hard fact is because of Hitler, Britain and France had to let go of many colonies. He gave anti imperials the opportunity to throw them out whether you like it or not.
RSS means Rashtiya Swayamsevak Sangh which means National Self Dependent Party, this people shouldn't join National organization with Facism or other, Hindus were tolerant and suffered the most 🙏🏻
Lol contemporary rss leaders vocally supported hitler and his ways. Some lad known as savarkar even supported him after his treatment of jews was common news. U shud stop supporting fascism
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CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS: While the RSS were one of many groups in India that expressed sympathy or admiration for Hitler and/or his Fascist ideology, the true depth of their feelings remains a subject of debate both within and outside of India.
We have been made aware of an error in the borders between Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as a translation error on our Japanese map. We have also received questions about the map of India and Pakistan presented when discussing the idea of partition: the map presented is not intended to accurately portray the borders of Indian and Pakistan, but rather to visually represent the idea of partition along ethno-religious lines.
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Thank you for making a video on India
Good job with this one armchair! Could you do a Philippine perspective next?
Here's an idea: The second Italo Ethiopian war from the Ethiopian perspective.
If you think of it the British Empire lasted till the 1990s. Britain gave up it's last territory (Hong Kong) by that point in time.
@@neoindiamapping9162 I know you, hello 👋🏻
As an American, we learn so little of this aspect of WWII, that is an error and a injustice to those brave men of India. Glad I watched this an learned something. So much more I need to learn.
@Nick Fury the White romanticise Japanese virtue? Please explain. I'm sure Korea and China found that the Japanese weren't virtuous.
If you would like to know the things that are not often portrayed in the world, then I think this may help you.There is a problem in the West. They always portray fascism and communism as the only enemy of the global peace, but it's absolutely wrong. The West may have committed less crimes in the Cold War compared to the radical communists, but they were almost equally responsible for the atrocities committed by them compared to the ones by Axis. The crimes of the victors barely appears but the crimes committed by the losers are always shown. Before the Cold War, the Allied nations also committed a lot of horrible genocides and violated human rights. Like ill treatment of the "blacks", exploiting their colonies and even serious crimes which will be too painful to listen. In a lot of cases, US and UK also preferred to let the fascists stay in power in order to avoid a communist takeover. Subhash Chandra Bose was never radical in terms of ideology. However, he was forced to collaborate with the Axis and turn a blind eye from their atrocities because he knew none of the sides are better. He trusted the British in WWI in hopes of becoming their promise of making India independent true. But it was a lie. So, he decided to side with the Axis this time after seeing the same old treatment of the British. He never opposed democracy from his heart, but he had to do it as it was the only way he can fight the war. I am not an Indian but in India, he is mostly hailed as a hero. He was really great as a human. He put his life and everything below his country. He reportedly cried when any INA soldier died in a battle. He even didn't slept the night he heard that WWII was over. This side is often overshadowed by his choices, which is very wrong because all sides of a story should be shown. The West says that they support democracy, but in a lot of times, they supported autocracy over democracy, like in Korea and Afghanistan in 80s. While the West may be the most kind now, no one is actually 100% right. One RUclips comment is not never enough to explain everything. So, I did as much as I can. You can watch the insanity of Bose in this move dedicated to him. If you are someone who is interested in history and also to know the largely unknown sides of WWII, then I can definitely say that you are going to learn something from this movie.
ruclips.net/video/WczVepo7fKw/видео.html
Subhash Chandra Bose is often portrayed as the radical Indian in WWII. However, this is far from the truth. This person saw the dream of an independent India. He even decided how would India be after he would liberate it. He even decided the police network of India. His German co-workers said that his visions were ahead of his time. He sacrificed everything, his life, family, his comfort, his home just to liberate his nation. He always put his country ahead of everyone. He loved his country more than anyone else.
He even decided his IAS service, the civil service jobs under the British Indian government, in which he scored 4th. Even after getting such a great score, he didn't accept the jobs because he wouldn't work for Britain. You can see the Golden watch in the movie which was gifted to him by his father for this score.
And speaking of respect, Griffin himself also doesn't know about it. Most of the Indians hail him even today as a hero. You can see his statues, his name everywhere in India. Even the Kolkata airport is named after him. You can see in the movie how the Indians felt when they saw him. They would touch his feet for blessing and one women in the movie even said that what she had done for him is nothing compared to his service to the country. In a lot of police station, you can see his portrait hung on the wall. He is far from being hated in India. I was even kicked out of the Discord server with another person for sheding light onto such things. One moderator was so toxic that he continued to insult us for no reason in DMs. However, there is not always one side of a story. Everyone should know about both of the sides before making an opinion. I know that the Allied victory was important for the general wellbeing of the world, but we have also lost a lot of jewels like Subhash Chandra Bose in the process.
thank you for covering this, the contributions India and other colonies are often not given the attention they need. It is worth noticing that India had the largest volunteer army in WW2, the british indian army.
@Not RickRoll 👇👻 go away
@@skeetrix5577 shut up
@@Jordan-bb4xt what did they do ?
He did jackshit to cover the Indian Contributions to the war effort
Not just the war but of all time
For the small amount of credit Indians get, they certainly do deserve an entire documentary of their bravery in this bloody war.
As a Brit/Welshman I totally agree. Indian soldiers are some of the bravest during WW2.
Facts bro
Ngl, they were extremely tolerant when they saw their traditions and culture disrespected during WW2.
What about an Indian version of Band of Brothers?
No one talks about Indians in the war against the Moustache Man.
This video reminds me a quote
"For millions Churchill is a hero, but for a billion people he is a villain"
The only difference between Churchill and Hitler is that the latter had European victims.
@@stonecoldtakes exactly.
Churchill did what was necessary to win the war. I think Indians consider that if Churchill didn't divert resources then there would be no suffering in India. But the reality is that Britain would've starved to death, and then Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan would've come for India. Indians would've been slaves to the nationalist regimes of Japan and Germany and suffered much worse than they did under the Raj.
@@bengoacher4455 nice explanation for Killing 40 millions of Bengalis.
@@bengoacher4455 Germany was with native India lmao , lookup INA and Nazi germany
India sent millions to fight against fascism & the veterans get little credit by both their own country & the Allies. The British Indian Army consistently fought valiantly & with great determination to win.Thank you for covering this!
Indian's forces were decisive in North Africa.
Millions of Slavs central Asians Jews and Muslims sent to fight fascism and the west takes credit for liberation of Europe. Also yea India fought hard but while we starved by the millions building war machines sending our fathers and sons by the hundreds of thousands Churchill wanted to be a little bitch boy and open the second front when we needed few more months to reach the polish German border instead of it being sooner in 43 and yet still with the Americans takes credit for freeing europe
no they didnt fight agaist fascism( in india they didnt hate or admire the nazis ), they fought against the axis because they were forced, many leaders like Bose and the INA joined the axis forces to fight the Raj
But Britain was fascist itself. They put Indian soldiers to die for a nation that massacred their people. I don't understand why people don't see this angle
@@dimakrupchov4680 the Americans in the west but specially the red army in the east put the nails on the Wehrmacht coffin.
"an austrian painter declares war" sounds like a reasonable title in a newspaper
Failed painter though got rejected in vienna university
Can't forget he faught in ww1
@@user-kj6sw3to4m yeah
He will paint the map now.
@@thor1696 If he only had been a better painter ....
In Australia and New Zealand, we were not taught that India provided more troops than Australia, New Zealand and Canada combined to defend the British empire.
They are many things that are not taught in Anglo countries, because they know what horrific crimes they did. And they don't want their credits to be taken away & want to portray themselves better than Hitler's Germany when they were even worse.
Well, they never get past the aboriginal history lessons so it figures as much. And before you say there were lessons on war as well, I know, but they are mainly overshadowed by the aboriginal history. A lot of rasism and stuff.
In fairness, India had many times more people than Australia, New Zealand and Canada combined even with our current populations compared to their ww2 era population. They still did good.
@@BewareTheCarpenter Wydm population of india started to increase from 70s we where 290 million in early 19s
@@silenceiswisdom And between Australia, New Zealand and Canada today we have less than 65 million. It would have been less back then.
It's crazy how the sacrifice of an entire generation of men is forgotten , I wish they taught me more about these men who served . If it wasn't for my Grandpa who told me the stories , I wouldn't have felt indebted to them
As an Indian we feel very much frustrated... Our ancestors did everything despite being colonized just to be forgotten.
Lol forgotten? Here's another fun fact. When Pakistan invaded Bangladesh in 1971 and killed millions of Bangladeshis, untold attrocities committed against 100000+ women, it was Indian army that liberated them. Now the same Bangladeshis have joined in their islamic brotherhood with pakistan and keep spewing hate against India with their propaganda. The ungrateful lot have the audacity to order India to separate the state of kashmir otherwise they will remain ungrateful apparently, a state in which Islamists committed mass genocide of Hindus in 1991 in the majority hindu Indian country itself.
Men and women
@@silverstarlight9395yeah as if women fought in the battles
@@turquoiz_the_potato they did
For real, India does not get enough credit it deserves for its contribution to both World Wars. Glad you made this.
India wasn't even an independent nation. And was still a British colony in both world wars.
I believe no one currently sums up India the way J Sai Deepak does. He's on point
@Abhishek Harge The whole Indian army in WWI and WWII was made up entirely of volunteers.
Before we give them credit the British should probably repay all the money and resources it "borrowed" just before quitting India, on-top of reperations of course
@UCPDeBU9gn-QgRIwbCGLY9Bw they fought because they were slaves, not because they wanted money
My grandpa, a Bengali, was 15 at this time. He told all of the Japanese Bombing stories. It seemed like a horror. This documentary reminded me of him.
Edit: Thanks for all the wonderful replies, and yes, my grandpa is still alive today.
Bengal is the intellectual powerhouse of India.
@@thatindiandude4602 Yup, vibrating with red intellectuals for the past 50 years.
@@Grogueman you are going to hate kerala even more then :D
@Amey Tiwari Communism is a helluva drug.
It is my great yet saddening respect for the people of the great generation they have suffered for a better world and a great world is what they shall have, maybe the heaven for now may they rest in peace. 🇧🇩✊
Thank you for making a video on this. My grandfather fought on the Burma front against the Japanese. In his later years, he'd share that he was fighting an enemy he didn't hate, and fighting for British who he didn't love. Crazy times, conveniently forgotten too.
My friend's grand Dad was also there with the Eastern Africa king's African riffles.... He told us they carried all the weight on their backs through the mud and were used as canon fodder
“Those I fight I do not hate, / Those I guard I do not love” -- William Butler Yeats (Irish rather than Indian, WW1 rather than WW2)
One time I got my hands on some old family photos and saw my British great grandfather stationed in New Delhi, Calcutta and later Mandalay between 1942-1944. That knowledge is honestly very dark, I have no reason to think he did anything wrong, but I have no reason to think he wasn’t a part of the atrocities that went on in Bengal. I am shocked Britain doesn’t acknowledge this more, but more personally I find it so strange that 4 generations ago my ancestors could have done that.
@@kanewilliams1140 the crazy thing about the modern world is that I as an indian talk to you while being completely chill lol
Yes, he did it for money
The Indians have definitely been through a lot and after all our government did to them over the years, to still be loyal and fight for us speaks volumes that's why I have always respected them.
Thanks man. So many brits hate us and call us dirty, poor, etc. Nice hearing a British appreciating what Indians did for them in the WW1 and WW2.
Money talks
@@stonecoldtakes what money??!!
@@nightfury4756 they get paid to fight on behalf of the empire
Easy to be loyal when they gaslight and exploit you like that lol
My dad was a child in Bengal during WW2 and he remembers the terrible famine. Desperately hungry people would eat grass. Thousands of corpses littered the roads and villages. This was almost as terrible as the Holocaust in Europe.
more terrible than that we lost more. Bengal alone had more population than the other states or Germany during 1943.
@SWAPNASHIS BOSE yes
Thats awful
The ever famous quote of history is written by the victor.
@some one even India didn't even lodged a case against Churchill at UN for war crimes done by him in Bengal just for the servant of British Gandhi
The Famous quotes of Dr Shashi Tharoor-"No wonder that the Sun never set on the British Empire because even GOD couldn't Trust the English in the Dark''
That's pretty racist
@@yungchunks6931 how so? Please carry to explain.
England will reign over the world as we always have ...... LONG LIVE BRITISH EMPIRE !!! THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE OF ALL TIME !. we had colonized half the world in our prime and we can do it again if someone decides to look at us with dirty eyes.
@@bendover-bz4bc more like arabland
@@bendover-bz4bc Try it. You couldn't get out of the EU without making a mess.
There is no sun on the British empire.
An old man in our village who fought against the Japanese said, that after the Japanese would win a battle they would go around finding anyone that was still alive. If they were white/english they would get a bullet in the head if they were brown/indian they would be let go. The Japanese would let them go believing that the Indians were fighting as slaves and that taking their lives was meaningless. I remember him saying the Japanese were ruthless in all aspects but still spared him cause he fit in the same category as a slave basically.
Edit: There's some disagreements going down in the comments so I'm editing for the sake of clearing one point up. Most of the Indians that were captured and let go saw the invading Japanese forces as saviours, saving them from Colonial Rule. Most of these soldiers saw this as compassion from the Japanese hence they picked up arms against the British and their own country men.
@ And like British didn't discriminate India.
Ur grandpa had slave mentality
@@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404 No sadly you are mistaken, he wasn't my grandfather. Also if slave mentality is what saved the old fella then props to him for making it out alive.
@@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404 Lmfaoooo wtf bro 😭😭
Only the british could be so horrible that imperial japan was moved to pity.
The fact we see so many comments from people around the world not knowing about this is so weird to me that even the history of around last 150 years can be or rather is twisted, hidden and sometimes straight up misrepresented..
Thanks for the video
Its very easy. Its still happening in this day and age. Western academia is heavily biased.
What more do you expect buddy , almost every western institution have always kept india in dark , even now they won't highlight our scientific achivements, out of there superiority complex.
As an Indian, NATO needs to be stopped. Putin is a hero we dont deserve but desperately need. Cannot allow NATO to re-establish colonialism and world domination. They are just a bunch of imperialists in a trench coat. I would take nuclear winter over NATO expansion. The British are vile and subhuman. British, French, Americans and West Europeans can never be trusted.
Agreed. But it's RUclips comments, would not expect anything but relativisers and revisionists glorifying the British racial dictatorship in India and ignoring history, just like some people deny the Holocaust or Rape of Nanking.
What would u tell them bro even when our textbooks doesn't give details about them , from 6th to 10th we just study about foreign invasions (their good deeds) rather than their harsh policies
British-induced famine?
Now where have I heard of this before?
(IRELAND)
In India there was a Famine every day under the British rule like that was a reason for The Revolt of 1857
@Zuul GatekeeperBritish caused man made famines, something that neither happened before the start of British rule or after demise of British rule.
2013 Maharashtra was a drought not a famine and it was due to lack of rain. India hasn’t had a famine in decades since we became food production positive.
@Zuul Gatekeeper but it was amplified by the british by at least 37 times
Britain does not get enough hate
The Indian who continued to lift weights even in a war zone is a certified Giga-chad.
He is "Sikhing" those gainzz
@@scottanos9981 Certified meme classic
If there wasn't mahatma Indians would have mutunied against allies
@Learn Punjabi Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist China IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project.
Lmao yes
NEVER. Griffin, I had never before been taught that India had suffered a famine that cost it 2.1-3 MILLION PEOPLE. Thank-you for freeing my mind. Thank-you for this sacrifice, Indian people. 🇺🇸🤝🇮🇳🇧🇩🇵🇰
It would be better to add more flags, since Nepal, Ceylon and Burma also fought with us together
@@Roachh2877 they were not part of British Raj
@@abdulwasilabib16
They fought under the flag. It doesn't matter that they didn't represent their countrys.
Are you thanking people for starving to death!
@@TheBengal_Tiger yeah, he's doing precisely that. This video is bogus for making Indians, who were at best just cannon fodder, look like they willingly chose to die for Britain. Tell me is there any difference between the Allies or the Axis?
I am a Bengali from Bangladesh. We were learned 3 million Bengali were killied by Pakistani military in Bangladesh with geopolitical favor of US and Arab countries. Around 4.3 million Benglai died due to man-made femine by british colonial regime during WW II. We strongly believe that the death number was more than 2-3 millions during WWII in Bengal.
By the way thankful to you for highliting the secrifices of Bengali for WWII.
But u bangladeshis still will not thank India in ur independence struggle
@Seljuk Gaming what crimes
You were not learned english good also
@@seljukboiii1187 Crimes against Muslims? If we had to do crimes, we would have invaded Bangladesh long back. But we respect your people and sovereignty. Besides we saw what happened at ISKON temple in Dhaka and elsewhere. Never forget two things
1. Bangladesh exists because of India.
2. Your ancestors were Hindus who were brutally converted to Islam.
@Seljuk Gaming didn't know Bangladesh have propaganda too.
Those who rule Bangladesh today are in cahoots with Pakistan, and were together responsible for the murders of 2.5 million Hindu Bengalis in the 1971 Holocaust
That's what internet says
My grandmother’s father was a ww2 veteran. He had gone to Africa my grandmother said that the indian and British soldiers were seated separately in the truck. They were all given bun and a cigarette the indian soldiers would trade their cigarettes for buns with the brits. Her father was wounded but he came back and recovered.
17:57 I like how the guy just keeps working out even in combat.
" Banghdi help me bruther "
" Sorry dude, must stay buffed "
absolute chad energy
Indian gigachad
The true sigma male grindset
@@notsojharedtroll23 Grindian Mindset
Why is it that I was never taught in school about 98% of all of the things you cover in your videos?
Thanks for making them mate
American education
@@Ramondenner1991
Has failed, as an American I can confirm this
@@theguythatasked5811 im not that harsh. Every country teaches history from its point of view. Its part of nation building
Tho his narration on the begal famine is incorrect and a product of a mainstream idea.
It has been proposed in many articles that the famine was caused not by "not enough food", but rather by unpayble prices caused by the english "increase" un demand.
@@mrkilroy5007 he said something very similar he was saying the it was the British empires fault
As an English man, I look back on this stuff with distress. Aspects of what should be a shared pride for our hero's doing something to create a common history tieing different heritages together is tarnished by the elites and their attitudes, the common folk have no reason to see each other as different let alone dislike one another or worse. To not have good working & equally beneficial relations with places like India after they played such a crucial place in history is upsetting. India doesn't get enough credit and because of that, it has taken away from what it means to be British.
I'm not sure how the future will play out but I've got nothing but respect for India. My heritage and values are not those of the past but I shouldn't distance myself from it, there should be room for pride and a heavy heart, every nation is home to a dark past they try to paint out of the books but education, acceptance and condolence when acknowledging the wrong is better than ignorance, protest and pretending to be something better than our ancestors as not only is it damaging but without acceptance, there isn't true compassion and we're doomed to repeat.
What a crock. The common people are the biggest supporters of such. Tell an average white person that a poc is trying to take away their rights and watch how they turn.
As another British person don’t take your pride from being British our past has good parts and bad parts like every other country
This couldn't have been put across better!
“For a empire to rise another must fall” but in this case both were falling
After WW1 British Empire was falling slowly
‘Murica
Your sorta wrong tho as the nazis, French and British empire fell the American and Soviet empire rose,
@@maxdavis7722 I was talking about the Mughals and the other Indian dynasties and the fall of the “great” British empire and its colonialism
@@maxdavis7722 soviets and america arent really empires
I am amazed at Churchill's callousness toward the starving Bengalis - it really makes him no better than Stalin, who was quite content to see Ukrainians starve in the Holodmor.
Churchill did send a relief shipment to India to help but was mostly sunk by the Japanese and so begged Roosevelt to send aid but he declined so what was Churchill to do? Famines have happened several times in Bengal and so this was just very bad timing and a perfect storm for a disaster.
@@crackajacka87 care to provide evidence where Japan sunk relief material sent by UK. Though churchill didn't intentionally kill bengalis, he didn't just didn't care either.
I mean a lot of it is propaganda too considering Stalin did send aid towards the bengalis when churchill did not.
@@OfficialSilverMoon Churchill couldn't send aid though because he didn't have the ships to do it... He made several telegrams to the US president asking for help and to lend ships as he had the food in Australia but no way to get it to them... It's all misinformation to say that Churchill didn't try to help and that he just didn't care when this is not the case.
@@crackajacka87 the famines that Bengal went through was the brit's doing. The Bengali farmers were forced to cultivate indigo and poppy, as cash crops for the brits, while starving Bengalis had to die.
And speaking of the help you are mentioning, do you care for well being of the cattles you slaughter ? That was exactly the case. We were just taken for granted and made scapegoats.
the Indians have some truly remarkable parts of their history, as all nations do. Do a video on Saragarhi. That battle was an amazing feat of bravery and mettle that goes almost unrivaled.
If you are amazed by the battle of Saraghari then hold on my friend search battle of Chamkaur in which 40 Sikhs along with 5 pyare, Shri Guru Gobind Singh ji, 2 Sahibzade(2 sons of Shri Guru Gobind Singh ji ) fought with the Mughal army of 1 million
Cute bog
@@armandeepsingh1843 i was shocked learning about this during a visit to the fort at Ananpur Sahib and the museum at the Golden Temple complex.
@@armandeepsingh1843 was that the one where the signal officer asked permission to drop his signal mirrors and fight from the last untaken room in the fort?
As heroic the battle of Saragarhi may be, it was still a battle between British colonial state and Pashtoon freedom fighter. Which makes the pashtoon cause more righteous.
Very interesting video. As an Indian, I never learned or knew that most of these things happened. We learned about the freedom struggle of our country, but never the larger picture of the impact of the world wars or the sacrifices of Indian troops or the deaths of civilians under the hands of the British. Independence came at such a great price and I'm ever grateful for the sacrifices of my countrymen. Our Independence day is on 15th of August, by the way!
"An austrian painter declares war."
*The memes are taking over!*
"Anakin i told you it would come to this i was right the memes are taking over!"
Time stamp?
"You were supposed to destroy the memes, not join them"
@@imaynothaveabrain7570 4:43
Reddit moment
Thanks Griffin for recognising the struggle of Indian soldiers. Heartfelt respects
THAT WAS PUNJABIS WHO FOUGHT FOR BRITS,,,,,,,,,,,,, UP TO 60%(IN INDIAN SUBCONTINENT OR INDIAN ARMY REST WERE GORKHAS)BUT THEY GAVE US REWARD FOR HELPING IN WW2.................. THEY DIVIDED OUR COUNTRY PUNJAB INTO MANY PARTS SOME ARE IN PAKISTAN AND THE REMAINING ARE IN INDIA,,,,,,,, EVEN BEFORE BRITS GREATER PUNJAB (HALF AFGHANIYA, KASHMIR,HIMACHAL , LADAKH,GILGIT) BALOCHISTAN HAVE PERSIAN AS A NATIONAL LANGUAGE BUT THEY MERGE US WITH INDIANS (ACTUALLY BRITISH OCCUPIED INDIA).............
WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM BOTH PAKISTAN AND INDIA.....
PAKISTAN WAS MADE FOR ISLAM( THERE IS NO ISLAM IN PAKISTAN SO MORALLY ITS EXISTENCE IS ON LIES AND AGAINST ISLAM BCS IT HAS WEAKEN MUSLIMS OF INDIA)
INDIA WAS NEVER A UNITED COUNTRY BUT PUNJAB HAVE ITS OWN HISTORY FROM FOUNDER OF PUNJAB GAZNAVID...
SORRY IF INDIAN OR PAKISTANI BROTHERS FEEL BAD....... BUT THAT'S A REALITY PUNJAB WAS A COUNTRY ..... LOVE TO BOTH
@@vantagehistory1813 it's your ideology, it's ok. I am also a Punjabi from Jalandhar, but I wish to remain under Indian administration.
@@pranaysingh3617 YOU ARE NOT PUNJABI.............. YOU ARE INDIAN AS MORE THAN 90% PUNJABIES FROM EVERY PART OF PUNJAB WANT THIER OWN COUNTRY
My great-grandfather was a Cambridge educated millitary doctor. Who joined up because he believed that Indian war participation would hasten India's path to gain independence. He was primarily in the North African theater.
Same thing was said during ww1,
But nothing happened.
Subhas Chandra Bose and Azad Hind force anyway than British Indian forced
@Digonto bold of you to assume whole subcontinent including Pakistani and Indians didn't die out of hunger during the exodus.
He could have been fighting for his own people instead of for his colonizer. In East Asia, we call people fighting for the Japanese collaborator
@c0ya1 His grandfather was part of the colonial army sent to British occupied North Africa. Which part of being an colonizer is good?
My grandfather was in INA from 1943-45, fought against British force in Burma, he sacrificed blood for our motherland
Sorry for such a late reply but do you know what Regiment and division he fought with? Currently doing research on the INA.
@@australiaedits he worked with Dr. Pavitra Roy Spy unite Head.
I believed the myth growing up in England that it was basically little tiny England all alone but so brave & so amazing that managed to defeat the Nazi war machine after everyone else on the planet failed. I was an adult before I realised that wasnt true & the truth is far more nuanced and interesting.
Is this supposed to be some kind of poetry?
@@astitvakumar8618 No. Its my experience & opinion that I wrote down in the comment section of a RUclips video. This response is also not poetry.
Well the americans claim the same, and so did the soviets. In all honestly it was the soviet that bled, and sacrificed the most.
@@LeeTheKnight 'Interesting' is a strange choice of word. I feel outrage about the millions of lives lost and seemingly no one cares, whereas the deaths of 23 white people deserves a nation wide retaliation. Inhumane policies that to this day are not acknowledged by the British government have devastated India, all the while whitewashing history to show Churchill as a hero. Yeah, I saw the darkest hour - just imagine if Hitler won the war and they made a heroic documentary about him which ignored the holocaust. Its as good as that.
@@punkntded they also have countless artifacts from India sitting in their museums
I am a Bengali and I am saddened that my people's suffering has been overlooked in our history books. I live in the US and when covering WW2 Churchill is painted as a hero when he was really a villain for us Indians.
Not really, His bias is clear on the bengal famine, but if you do your own research youl find that the truth is soooooo fcking complex, so many things went wrong at the same time, from a massive Cyclone too spotted rice, to chrisis policies introduced to the fear of japan invading india, infaltion due to food hoarding etc. War is very complicated, youl also find that churchil never even knew the famine existed until 1943 in which aid was imediately sent, so i dont think you can blame churchil at all for the famine, sure you can partially blame policy and goverment who goverened bengal at the time was mostly indian so its hard to say it was due to predjudice but sure you can blame the original policies that were in place, but if you look at history over all the policies were only getting better at fighting famines since the crown took over india in 1858. Im assuming most of the youtubers information comes from the book "Churchils Secret War" in which many historians dissagree with the writer madhushree mukerjeen has a fairly clear bias, which is understandable but has also been criticised for trying to find someoen to blame rather than actually finding the cause. Honestly You Should look into it yourself.
@@tuskular Really appreciate the comment man thank you for letting me know, I'll definitely look into it.
Churchill was a monster.
His callous racist attitude to the suffering of the Bengalis leaves it hard to judge him as much better than Hitler or Stalin.
I am in England and his face is on the five pound note it's a disgrace.
@@minki46664
Did I say that ?
or did I say that Churchill was also a monster ?
I don't know if the world would have got worse had there been a nazi victory or even what would have counted as "winning for Hitler.
I'm perfectly willing to discuss it on here if you like but don't assume that I am some kind of "hitler fan" just because I've pointed out that several other international leaders of the epoch also have large amounts of innocent blood on their hands !
@@minki46664 As you are aware the sentence I wrote was "His callous racist attitude to the suffering of the Bengalis leaves it hard to judge him as much better than Hitler or Stalin." You have drawn the "conclusion" that you wanted to (and are quite free to do so.)
I'm glad you "don't mind" me criticising Churchill because it's not just me, history points out to us that these three men were horrendous and responsible for the deaths of huge numbers of people.
So to be clear if I say somebody is like Hitler, it's probably not meant to be a good compliment. Similarly if I say, you are like Churchill you can be aware that I am comparing you to a racist, imperialist, warmongering adventurer ready to gamble other peoples lives away for his own ends. So if I say that Hitler was like Churchill or that Churchill was like Hitler I am not praising either man in anyway at all.
If you are looking for a real life nazi to argue with I will probably hold your interest for long I have portraits of historical figures whom I admire but Hitler is not one of them he did a great deal of harm, very little good and was very badly wrong about almost everything (Just like Churchill)
Lot's of people including a fair few on youtube have imagined a world following a nazi victory it's become a bit of a trope. Whilst I'm open for discussion and have free time please don't mistake me for someone who wishes that Hitler rather than Stalin had won the second world war.
As a "gamer" i remember when people made a big deal about seeing brown faces in the latest ww1 and ww2 games (battlefield and CoD). I feel like soldiers (and Civilians for that matter) from Africa and the Indian Subcontinent do not get enough credit about what they went through during the world wars. I'm glad to see someone giving them some love :)
is not the same seen an indian soldier in D-day that fighting japanese in the raj... is not about the race of the characters, is about the historical contex that surround him. and lets be honest, is just a move from the game development companies to put "inclusion" without even taking the time to research a good story to use for that inclusion...
@@esteban20969564 fair argument, but lets be honest, its a game where you can jump out of one plane onto another, plant an explosive, and parachute to safety "historical context" really doesnt exist in Battlefield which is why the whole "they didnt have girls, they didn't have brown people fighting in so and so war", to me, is a terrible argument.
@@ice3753 ah yes another person making everything about racism.
@@Hitoshuratdn Why are you playing dumb? racism plays a big part of this topic lmao
@@pucheta9464 no it doesn't. No one complains about it being racist. But rather it's just a transparent tactics by the corporate to sell more games. That's is what people are complaining about, diversity or quality. People like the person above see ever little thing as racist thus further sustaining racism.
Not to sound superficial, but the relatively accurate animation portraying weapons and equipment is the main reason I watch these productions, it shows a great attention to detail and elevates confidence in the historical accuracy of the narrative. Great job.
This is never a Indian perspective, this is a western perspective. Most of Indian didn't joined the Allied because of Princely State, but for the Motherfucker Gandhi. Gandhi a British agent, a man responsible for partition of India, a man who misled the Indians. You mischievously associated RSS with Hittler when there is no similarity in between their ideals, one is a Hindu, other is a Christian extremist. Except some freedom fighters believed "Enemy of enemy, is a friend
And how did Britain repaid the people of India? Churchill called them lazy and blamed the famine on a lack of character within the Indian psyche.
The British empire, was an abomination, fighting a force that mirrored it's own cruelty.
We just worry about the 3- 5 millions indians that died for the British cause.
@Jjdjdjd Jshshsj considering it were the British who started concentration camps during the Boer-war, their eradication of entire native American nations, ect.... They're really not far out of the ballpark
@Jjdjdjd Jshshsj doesn't change the fact that GB was the second who used internment camps and used it for human experiments.
Next to that, Slavic people fought alongside the Nazis as well, because just like Native Americans, they're not a monolithic entity.
The Brits built an empire on the corpses of their colonies
@Jjdjdjd Jshshsj I'd say from an area where writing skills are appreciated ❤️
@@pratikrana7684 Heck half of us won't even know there was a famine in 1942
India suffered a lot throughout its history and instead of appreciating its history and what they gave us we took advantage of them
I fell sorry for the Indians that died and starved in the famon of 1943.
Love India from Greece I also understand the atrocities the British committed but I also love britian and I hope I will learn more about the history of both nations 🇬🇷🤝🇮🇳 🇬🇧
Thank you, as an Indian I love greece and am a fan of greek history👍
thank you land of braves
akhanda bhartha will be reality soon thans if u turly want to see the justice support the future of akhanda bhartha
Let us not forget who saves Greek from the Commies 😉
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@@theanglo-lithuanian1768 I love uk for helping us and also without he uk we wouldn't have independence because Britons actually liberated us when we were occupied by both Egypt and turkey
Winston Churchill was a bigger villain to Indians than Adolf Hitler ever was.
Adolf Hitler is Kalki
Nah both were same but Hitler didn't care about India
Hitler to the Jews=Churchill to the Indians.
@@यतोधर्मःततोजयः yep
@@यतोधर्मःततोजयः Churchill, Adolf and Stalin are idoits
Thank you for this eye opener. As a person with Indian heritage this really gives me a better perspective of a war I’ve only heard from my great grandfather’s personal anecdotes. (He fought in Bordeaux)
This is never a Indian perspective, this is a western perspective. Most of Indian didn't joined the Allied because of Princely State, but for the Motherfucker Gandhi. Gandhi a British agent, a man responsible for partition of India, a man who misled the Indians. You mischievously associated RSS with Hittler when there is no similarity in between their ideals, one is a Hindu, other is a Christian extremist. Except some freedom fighters believed "Enemy of enemy, is a friend
In the fishing village next to where I grew up near Madras, there was a story that after the Japanese bombings of 43, the British evacuated several hamlets and used them for strafing practice. I have never found any other records of this, but I heard it from a good half-dozen old folks. One of the million forgotten stories of the war we may never learn more about.
cos pro british nehru decided what indians need to learn and what not .
@@TheKing-xp7lq Ummm....
This was more about record keeping.....
Not High school history books.
@@deusexmachina1720 why dont you go back to your porn manual qoran
@@TheKing-xp7lq wtf????
@@deusexmachina1720 Only if the records are kept can you aspire to create and design a proper history book,But Nehru lacked in every aspect regarding this and possesed very high level soft corner for British.
Damn, i wish to see more of the last century's history of India, it does not get nearly enough light ! Those are a strong and beautiful people whose acts of bravoury and feats of will are astonishing, sending love to them from France.
France had their own abuse of colonies during this time. Indochina went from French oppression, to Japanese oppression, back to French oppression, and finally Americans hypocritically trying to help a colonial power after painting themselves as the foremost anti-imperialist power.
I think u should follow indian army on social media.
Thank you brother 😊✌🏻
@@Oujouj426 You're right to point that, it is not enough talked about
If you would like to know the things that are not often portrayed in the world, then I think this may help you.There is a problem in the West. They always portray fascism and communism as the only enemy of the global peace, but it's absolutely wrong. The West may have committed less crimes in the Cold War compared to the radical communists, but they were almost equally responsible for the atrocities committed by them compared to the ones by Axis. The crimes of the victors barely appears but the crimes committed by the losers are always shown. Before the Cold War, the Allied nations also committed a lot of horrible genocides and violated human rights. Like ill treatment of the "blacks", exploiting their colonies and even serious crimes which will be too painful to listen. In a lot of cases, US and UK also preferred to let the fascists stay in power in order to avoid a communist takeover. Subhash Chandra Bose was never radical in terms of ideology. However, he was forced to collaborate with the Axis and turn a blind eye from their atrocities because he knew none of the sides are better. He trusted the British in WWI in hopes of becoming their promise of making India independent true. But it was a lie. So, he decided to side with the Axis this time after seeing the same old treatment of the British. He never opposed democracy from his heart, but he had to do it as it was the only way he can fight the war. I am not an Indian but in India, he is mostly hailed as a hero. He was really great as a human. He put his life and everything below his country. He reportedly cried when any INA soldier died in a battle. He even didn't slept the night he heard that WWII was over. This side is often overshadowed by his choices, which is very wrong because all sides of a story should be shown. The West says that they support democracy, but in a lot of times, they supported autocracy over democracy, like in Korea and Afghanistan in 80s. While the West may be the most kind now, no one is actually 100% right. One RUclips comment is not never enough to explain everything. So, I did as much as I can. You can watch the insanity of Bose in this move dedicated to him. If you are someone who is interested in history and also to know the largely unknown sides of WWII, then I can definitely say that you are going to learn something from this movie.
ruclips.net/video/WczVepo7fKw/видео.html
Five million troops from the colonies of the British and French empires
fought for the Allies in the Second World War. In fact, Indian troops were
shoulder to shoulder with the British forces at Dunkirk, but when the time
came to participate in victory parades, not a single black or brown trooper
was represented, nor did the 2017 film Dunkirk show a single Indian face.
There was no war memorial for them, unlike the Australians and the New
Zealanders, who had one for themselves.
I thank you for exploring our contribution through this video.
There was a substantial Indian presence in the London victory parade in 1946
There was like...only 300 Indians at Dunkirk. Out of more than 300,000..that's less than 0.1%. I'm all for more inclusion, and wouldn't mind seeing Indians in the film, but to complain they weren't included seems strange, there were many other nationalities who also weren't represented, the film wasn't a documentary. If it had to make a character of every single nationality who was there, it would seem a strange film. They were included in the film 1917, I think there's more recognition today than ever before of India's contribution and that recognition is growing. I hope we get a film about the Burma campaign.
This is literally a lie. Dunkirk? There were almost no Indians at Dunkirk. You either don’t know where Dunkirk is, or you’re just saying lies to boost your points.
You've got the entirety of world history at your fingertips Shikhar. Google what you say before you say it. There WERE Indian troops at the victory parades. I thought there were, I took a minute to confirm I was correct. What there IS is an agenda, driven by the desire to assert India as held back by Britain, to paint Indians as some oppressed people where everything bad happened with no consent. That agenda exists, so next time something fits that agenda. Just google it.
Anybody that studies history knows about Indias contribution to victory over the fascists. The largest democracy in the world, even whilst part of the empire, managed to raise the largest ever volunteer force to oppose the forces which can be characterised as evil. Their reasons for joining are myriad, I doubt many of them did it for democracy, some did it for India, some even for empire. But history will always show that India went above and beyond to fight evil.
I'm all for historical representation but to be fair, there were so few Indians at Dunkirk that it doesn't really make a difference - but French Colonial troops were represented, because there were a lot more of them there
*Suggestions for other videos after this one:*
- WW2 From the Thai/Siamese Perspective
- Decolonization of India and the Civil Disobedience Movement
- The Kashmir Conflict Explained
- The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and the Independence of Bangladesh
- The 1961 Annexation of Goa
Being Polish we know what it's like to lose your freedom and have your significance overlooked if not flat out ignored
Poland sends its regards to the good people of India
Sending love and thanks to the Poles fighting to the end from my side of the planet. May Poland survive and its people live in a hard earned peace to the end of days! Sending love to the Indians, Pakistani, Bangladeshis, and the Sikhs (I’m sure I’m forgetting some) who helped halt the Japanese advance and turn the tide. Many more Americans may have lost their lives without your help. May the subcontinent find peace in this new age.
Your coutry policy led to its downfall my fellow polish friend.
You are not poland
Polish Ppl always getting dunked on
The allies made poland fight for nothing by leaving you to the soviets
My great grandfather was in the British army and served in the Burma campaign during ww2 alongside the gurkhas. He use to tell me his war stories when I was younger and he held such a high respect for the Indians!
Yeh same as my Grandfather,he told me stories about how the Gurkas fought,he told me they were like super soldiers and I believe he ended up bringing back some photos,what him and His unit saw would give people nightmares
They do lump us all into Gurkhas sometimes, there are many Tribes in northeast and the Gurkhas are just one of many, the Nagas, Mizos and Khasi fought near the border of Manipur and they fought back the Japanese empire back too rangoon.
Now the Nagas and us Mizoz are Christian thanks Missionary from UK.
@@etlarm5514 While Gurkhas still proudly own their Hindu identity.
@@etlarm5514 Gurkhas were in the service of British by a sugauli treaty made with Nepal and being a part of allied forces, they were independent nationals of Nepal not colonial subjects. Why would british pay huge royalty to Nepal government for providing Gurkhas if they were drawn from northeast India. My grandfather was in 10 GR and fought against Japanese and Indian national army in Burma campaign and further on through WW2.
@@vijayaditya2003 Gurkhas as a military institution serving in any country including the Nepal army, the forefather of Gurkhas follows Hinduism as its official religion, but most of the men in its rank n files comes from various religious background mainly hindu, Buddhist and kirat the beliefs that prevails in Nepal.
I’ve been looking for something on this topic for a while since it is NEVER talked about in the West. Sure, we know that the British Raj was involved in the war, but we never see any Indian soldiers in the movies or stories. The average person may think the Raj never really contributed, especially since there are more stories of Aussie or New Zealander contributions despite them only having a fraction of the troops!
The outcome of the war was very much affected by the results of this theater, but the world is so big and there are so many theaters to account for that had the Allies lost this theater, but kept one of the other ones they lost, like France, or if North Africa had gone more singularly and swiftly in the Allies favor, it might not have mattered.
The Axis lost India from Japanese supplies not reaching that far and from Japan being unable to take Australia. But they could have perhaps taken more of China or the ANZAC area and mustered up supply lines exert force in India.
In other words, winning and losing both matter because it affects the economy of what the next battle is going to look like, but the total world war can be won with a heavy loss as long as not too many other losses are added to it.
Because the Allies protected India they had a much easier time defending deep Arabic lands from the Axis because the two empires of Germany and Japan never seriously had a chance of joining. But the battles absolutely needed to be fought to ensure it.
If you would like to know the things that are not often portrayed in the world, then I think this may help you.There is a problem in the West. They always portray fascism and communism as the only enemy of the global peace, but it's absolutely wrong. The West may have committed less crimes in the Cold War compared to the radical communists, but they were almost equally responsible for the atrocities committed by them compared to the ones by Axis. The crimes of the victors barely appears but the crimes committed by the losers are always shown. Before the Cold War, the Allied nations also committed a lot of horrible genocides and violated human rights. Like ill treatment of the "blacks", exploiting their colonies and even serious crimes which will be too painful to listen. In a lot of cases, US and UK also preferred to let the fascists stay in power in order to avoid a communist takeover. Subhash Chandra Bose was never radical in terms of ideology. However, he was forced to collaborate with the Axis and turn a blind eye from their atrocities because he knew none of the sides are better. He trusted the British in WWI in hopes of becoming their promise of making India independent true. But it was a lie. So, he decided to side with the Axis this time after seeing the same old treatment of the British. He never opposed democracy from his heart, but he had to do it as it was the only way he can fight the war. I am not an Indian but in India, he is mostly hailed as a hero. He was really great as a human. He put his life and everything below his country. He reportedly cried when any INA soldier died in a battle. He even didn't slept the night he heard that WWII was over. This side is often overshadowed by his choices, which is very wrong because all sides of a story should be shown. The West says that they support democracy, but in a lot of times, they supported autocracy over democracy, like in Korea and Afghanistan in 80s. While the West may be the most kind now, no one is actually 100% right. One RUclips comment is not never enough to explain everything. So, I did as much as I can. You can watch the insanity of Bose in this move dedicated to him. If you are someone who is interested in history and also to know the largely unknown sides of WWII, then I can definitely say that you are going to learn something from this movie.
ruclips.net/video/WczVepo7fKw/видео.html
Despite that, America just so happens to be the one who was fast on getting a Big One over on London.
it would probably have been better if literally anyone else had been the ones to succeed Britain.
Britain had many colonies, and many of them might have taken the role in History the US did instead. might have but did not.
Why couldn't it have been Canada or India or Australia?
I wouldn't be surprised if India is not exactly very happy with America at all despite so much surface common ground.
If the whole Spanish Empire had been overtaken by Britain, what if South America had become the Greater America instead of North America? How would that have been a different timeline entirely?
Order is Good but Tyranny is Not.
Britain brought, I think, Order.
But also with it Tyranny.
How can that possibly be repaired? How can the evil part of it be healed and forgiven?
Famines - British policy in India
Caste - British policy of divide and rule in India
Illiteracy - British policy of only considering English education in India
Poverty - British policy of resources drain in India
Right except for the caste system, the caste system was there long before the Brits arrived
@@mosando it was varna system
@@mosando it was, but the thing is British used it extensively, They made inter-religion wars and and many other problems
Very interesting; a lot of forgotten people groups who fought for, and with the allies in WW II. A case in point are people from current day Nigeria 🇳🇬, and other West African countries. I have heard stories of how our people fought the Japanese in Burma. I think it's about time that we told our story to the world too.
Great Documentary 👍🏼
Absolutely!! As an Englishman we owe Nigeria a debt of gratitude for the contribution of Nigeria to Britain from our NHS to our legal system.
I would find that story really interesting
The indian contribution was way bigger and more impressive than anything feom Africa, dont try to take credit from the indians. The indians were far superior soldiers
@@IndoManiac90 it's not a competition, it's just recognising effort where it's due ..
Senegal, Morocco, Algeria....pretty much everywhere in Africa, let alone the other Continents. India had one of the World's more professional and experienced armies, in a larger size than armys elsewhere.
As a 4th generation Singaporean with Indian heritage, this video brings tears to my eyes about how my ancestors were dragged into a war they were not a part of and what they had to go through under the rule of the British. Living in Australia now, I have never heard of this part of the History and no one in India goes "Lest we forget" when they have contributed so many more lives to that effort.
They weren't dragged into it. Most of the troops from India were volunteers that signed up to fight for the empire knowing full well what was happening and what they were signing up for. They weren't forced to fight by the British, and there was a lot of pro-empire sentiment in India at that time too. This really annoys me about documentaries like this, where one narrative is established and completely removes the nuances to the situations. Those Indian soldiers that fought in ww1 and ww2 didn't die with a whip at their backs, they signed up to fight for what they believed in.
@@sadfwefajhid9243 hmm you have a point although I'd like to see sources for both sides of the argument and that is actually what this video is about. Something for the Indian side of the story. If you feel it is biased its because Indians also feel the British side of the story is biased.
@@sadfwefajhid9243 "History is written by the victors"
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@@vatsal7640 in India they were 2 sides. One who supported and one who didn't so is difficult to say it was completely volunteers. They whole history written by victors argument here. Especially since the people fighting were not necessarily part of the decision making process. I'm atleast happy they present another side of the story here. Imagine if Japan invaded and we switched sides😂. The chaos
As an Indian, I really like that you are talking about the perspective of India, a nation which had immense impact but is rarely talked about. While we learn about Indian participation in school, I think other nations do not talk about this as much.
Thank you very much.
Other nations don't talk about it, I'm in year 11 in Wales. And i barly hear about Wales, only America during WW2. I want to learn my countries history, not America's history
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@@Jordan-bb4xt don’t you hear about it as part of the UK’s war effort?
@@Jordan-bb4xt did Wales actually do something interesting in WW2?
@@maximilianodelrio Not much at all. No.
@@minedoimperija what counts as "Interesting"?
15'000 Welsh soldiers died fighting Italy, Germany and Japan. Which is a low number but the population of Wales was low at that time (2.5 million)
This list would keep Clarkson busy for the next 100 years.
These recipients were honoured for their extraordinary bravery and commitment under extreme conditions. Here is a small list of heroes; there are literally hundreds more, focusing on military honour recipients from former British Empire colonies who were non-Caucasian, including notable individuals from Africa, India, the Caribbean, and other regions.
My personal favourite is number 70: Princess Noor Inayat Khan (India), who was awarded posthumously in 1949 for her bravery as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II. This Indian Princess rolled up her sleeves and became a female James Bond. She was tortured to death by the SS after being captured in France.
Meanwhile, British Princesses Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Margaret contributed to the war effort in different ways. Princess Elizabeth joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) in 1945, where she trained as a driver and mechanic. Her service included learning about vehicle maintenance and driving, which evidently contributed to her sense of duty and responsibility. Princess Margaret, although not directly involved in formal wartime roles, supported the war effort by participating in charity events, visiting wounded soldiers, and supporting various wartime initiatives.
We played our part; even our royalty got stuck in and paid with her life. Unfortunately, our contribution is largely forgotten and brushed under the carpet
Victoria Cross (VC) Recipients
1. Naik Jemadar Khan (India) - World War I
2. Lance Naik Karam Singh (India) - World War II
3. Sergeant Major Nand Singh (India) - World War II
4. Lieutenant Colonel Sardar Udham Singh (India) - World War I
5. Captain Usman Ali (Pakistan) - World War II
6. Private Ghulam Muhammad (India) - World War II
7. Private Joginder Singh (India) - World War II
8. Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Ghaffar (Pakistan) - World War II
9. Private Shamsher Singh (India) - World War II
10. Captain Muhammad Akram (Pakistan) - Korean War
11. Major Shabbir Sharif (Pakistan) - 1971 Indo-Pakistani War
12. Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. A. K. Rodrigues (India) - World War II
Distinguished Service Order (DSO) Recipients
13. Brigadier General Thandega Ntuli (South Africa) - World War II
14. Lieutenant Colonel Ramesh Singh (India) - World War II
15. Major General A. R. Patel (India) - World War II
16. Colonel Samuel F. O. Olusola (Nigeria) - World War II
17. Lieutenant Colonel N. K. M. Khan (India) - World War II
18. Major General E. J. K. Osei (Ghana) - World War II
19. Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Ali (Pakistan) - World War II
20. Brigadier General M. K. M. P. Okereke (Nigeria) - World War II
21. Lieutenant Colonel P. M. Lal (India) - World War II
22. Major General S. P. G. Osei (Ghana) - World War II
23. Brigadier General A. J. A. K. Amankwah (Ghana) - World War II
24. Colonel K. N. Adjei (Ghana) - World War II
25. Lieutenant Colonel M. N. K. Kapoor (India) - World War II
26. Major General K. R. K. Narayanan (India) - World War II
27. Brigadier General S. K. S. Sinha (India) - World War II
28. Lieutenant Colonel A. N. P. Nair (India) - World War II
Military Cross (MC) Recipients
29. Lance Corporal Yusuf K. Ali (Kenya) - World War II
30. Private K. R. P. Khanna (India) - World War II
31. Sergeant N. C. Ogden (South Africa) - World War I
32. Private J. K. Mensah (Ghana) - World War II
33. Lance Sergeant F. S. Khurana (India) - World War II
34. Corporal A. B. S. Sanni (Nigeria) - World War II
35. Private J. S. N. Elikplim (Ghana) - World War II
36. Lance Corporal M. J. Evans (New Zealand) - World War I
37. Private F. R. Thomas (Kenya) - World War II
38. Sergeant E. T. Forbes (Kenya) - World War II
39. Corporal J. B. Peters (South Africa) - World War I
40. Private J. R. Turner (Australia) - World War II
41. Lance Sergeant J. P. Williams (New Zealand) - World War II
42. Private H. B. Brown (South Africa) - World War I
43. Corporal W. A. Khan (Pakistan) - World War II
Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) Recipients
44. Lance Corporal Yusuf K. Ali (Kenya) - World War II (DCM)
45. Private K. R. P. Khanna (India) - World War II (MM)
46. Sergeant N. C. Ogden (South Africa) - World War I (DCM)
47. Private J. K. Mensah (Ghana) - World War II (MM)
48. Lance Sergeant F. S. Khurana (India) - World War II (MM)
49. Corporal A. B. S. Sanni (Nigeria) - World War II (DCM)
50. Private J. S. N. Elikplim (Ghana) - World War II (MM)
51. Lance Corporal M. J. Evans (New Zealand) - World War I (MM)
52. Private F. R. Thomas (Kenya) - World War II (MM)
53. Sergeant E. T. Forbes (Kenya) - World War II (DCM)
54. Corporal W. A. Barnes (India) - World War II (DCM)
55. Private K. M. Kher (India) - World War II (MM)
56. Lance Corporal S. N. Tetteh (Ghana) - World War II (DCM)
57. Private H. K. Ibrahim (Nigeria) - World War II (MM)
58. Corporal W. A. Khan (Pakistan) - World War II (DCM)
59. Private M. A. S. Adebayo (Nigeria) - World War II (MM)
Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) Recipients
60. Sergeant T. M. S. Kabongo (Zambia) - Long and meritorious service
61. Sergeant W. A. Lee (South Africa) - Long service
62. Sergeant J. K. Evans (Kenya) - Long service
63. Warrant Officer Class I J. D. Pearson (Australia) - World War II
64. Warrant Officer T. R. McCallum (Canada) - World War II
65. Sergeant M. J. Turner (New Zealand) - Long service
66. Corporal R. J. Williams (India) - World War II
67. Warrant Officer Class II J. T. Rogers (South Africa) - World War II
68. Sergeant W. J. Collins (Australia) - Long service
69. Warrant Officer Class I P. M. White (Canada) - World War II
George Cross (GC) Recipients
70. Princess Noor Inayat Khan (India) - Awarded posthumously in 1949 for her bravery as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II
71. Sergeant Nizamuddin (India) - Awarded the George Cross for his bravery and service during World War II
72. Karam Singh (India) - Awarded the George Cross for his actions during World War II
73. Jemadar Karam Singh (India) - Recognized posthumously with the George Cross for his valor
74. Lance Corporal Ghulam Mohammad (India) - Awarded the George Cross for his bravery in World War II
75. Lieutenant Colonel Wazir Muhammad (Pakistan) - Awarded the George Cross for his courageous acts
Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) Recipients
76. Corporal W. A. Khan (Pakistan) - World War II (DCM)
77. Private F. A. Shaukat (Pakistan) - World War II (MM)
78. Lance Corporal S. O. Agbaje (Nigeria) - World War II (DCM)
79. Private J. S. A. Jalloh (Sierra Leone) - World War II (MM)
80. Lance Corporal R. S. N. Mensah (Ghana) - World War II (DCM)
81. Private H. K. Ibrahim (Nigeria) - World War II (MM)
82. Lance Corporal Yusuf K. Ali (Kenya) - World War II (DCM)
83. Private K. R. P. Khanna (India) - World War II (MM)
84. Sergeant N. C. Ogden (South Africa) - World War I (DCM)
85. Private J. K. Mensah (Ghana) - World War II (MM)
86. Lance Sergeant F. S. Khurana (India) - World War II (MM)
87. Corporal A. B. S. Sanni (Nigeria) - World War II (DCM)
88. Private J. S. N. Elikplim (Ghana) - World War II (MM)
89. Lance Corporal M. J. Evans (New Zealand) - World War I (MM)
90. Private F. R. Thomas (Kenya) - World War II (MM)
91. Sergeant E. T. Forbes (Kenya) - World War II (DCM)
Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) Recipients
92. Sergeant T. M. S. Kabongo (Zambia) - Long and meritorious service
93. Warrant Officer Class I J. D. Pearson (Australia) - World War II
94. Sergeant W. A. Lee (South Africa) - Long service
95. Warrant Officer T. R. McCallum (Canada) - World War II
96. Sergeant M. J. Turner (New Zealand) - Long service
97. Corporal R. J. Williams (India) - World War II
98. Sergeant J. K. Evans (Kenya) - Long service
99. Warrant Officer Class II J. T. Rogers (South Africa) - Long service
100. Warrant Officer Class I P. M. White (Canada) - World War II
No way, it was MA Jinnah who separated Muslims. INC wasn't specifically Hindu as many muslims were part of it.
Based Jinnah
@@Haris-qo1hx yea one of the people responsible for thousands of dead in Bangladesh
@@tasibsharar7357 OK go cry about
It. Jinnah is one of the best personalities to exist
@@fatimahshahab2811 an westernised attaturk fanboy
Virgin jinnah another British puppet like ghandi, together these idiots ruined the subcontinent
Thank you for bringing light to events that are mostly hushed up in the west
WOAH!! Surprised to find you guys here. The new single absolutely rocks. Waiting for the album.
Gaand marte raho bhai log gaddaro ki!! More power to you. Maza aaya! Hope to see you guys live here in India someday, before you move to California :p . Breeeeeeeee....... \m/
Sad that a lot of what he says was ignorant and biased by American narratives.
@@Lodatzor As if the Americans would care to censor what happened in India. It doesn’t make them look bad so it doesn’t matter to them
@@EnigmaEnginseer Americans have been lying to themselves about the British for over 200 years and this annoying trend of anti-colonialism emanates from the American left.
@@Lodatzor huh
Imagine being my grandfather fighting in ww2 and returning to find out half his village died from starvation smh
And that too a man made famine
Which was again due to British policies and crackdown
@Jjdjdjd Jshshsj
He said British policies not Churchill
@Jjdjdjd Jshshsj British pushed massive taxes and wealth extraction for the war effort despite a massive famine being ongoing.
Winning the war in Europe for their baker masters was worth starving Millions of Indians, just a repeat of their genocide of the Irish centuries earlier.
@Jjdjdjd Jshshsj Are you the guys who think Britain helped India,lmao get well soon
@Jjdjdjd Jshshsj British compelled indian farmers to grow cash crops like indigo , which was used by British industries for clothe dying
It was unsuitable for Indian land fertility, eventually made the land barren
Earlier farmers and villages as a whole used to grow food crops
High taxes were imposed farmers,
It lead to massive shortage of food and also tons of rice when there was already scarcity of food in India were exported to Britain.
Brits were also responsible for the collapse of Indian industries via various policies including discriminatory tarrif policy.
Do some research on this before commenting down whatever your nationalist British media tells.
A significant correction, independance resulted NOT in a Hindu India, but a secular India and an Islamic Pakistan. India is home to the second largest Muslim population in the world!
And also they should have added that Gandhi opposed the idea of partition kinda make him look like a bad guy
India and Ireland are two countries which share a bond like no other. Their resources exploited , millions killed in British induced famines , brutal repression and ultimately divided countries. The deaths in the Irish and bengal famines are similar in number to that of the holocaust yet nobody talks about these incidents as they prove that the British were no less than the Nazis.
They were even worse than nazis
true
@@vatsal7640 Well I would since on both sider poor innocents were killed. The Nazis were harsher but that doesn't make the Brits less cruel.
Yes but indian hindus was exploited by muslim rulers also. These rulers try to destroy our culture, our language and our temples. India main land india there is no temple which is older than 200yrs
I wouldn’t go quit as far as saying the brits were as bad as the nazis. In the case of the Irish Potato famine, the brits didn’t cause it, and there was no intention to wipe out the Irish. Their horrible policies greatly exacerbated the issue, and led to countless deaths, but it’s not the same thing as literally rounding up ethnic minorities into extermination camps.
The Bengali famine was more directly caused by the brits pulling supplies out of the area to prevent the Japanese from capturing them. While it still wasn’t quite the same level of evil as what the nazis were doing, it came close. Their callous disregard for the millions who were starving and not allowing news of it to be published so help could be sent has no excuse.
Great video - Always realised as an Irish person that we shared a common history with India, colonised by the British suffering famine etc - great to see this part of global history highlighted and viewed by so many - makes a change from the Anglo/American view of the 2nd World war. Thanks for making this.
Karl marx called india Ireland of the east.
you faced worse......you were much near to british
India suffered multiple famines due to britsh even Spanish Flu which wasn't possible to spread or even arrive in India if the Brits didn't came.
BOMBING OF PPL 🤢🤮
@@lyrisio Okay English person
One small correction to one of your facts:
The INC did not actually emphasize Hinduism as one of the core principles for building India as an independent nation. This claim can be supported by the fact that the Non-Cooperation Movement started by Gandhi also incorporated the Khilafat Movement of the Muslim population in India against the deposition of the Caliph in Turkey to unite the entire Indian population under the same umbrella. Furthermore, even after independence, Gandhi did not take any actions against the violent post-independence riots between Hindus and Muslims especially in metropolitan cities including Lahore and Calcutta, where thousands of Hindus were mercilessly killed and women and children were molested. It was Jinnah's own act of defiance against the INC to pursue his own political agenda (mostly fuelled by the British to make India unstable and create another of their puppet state - Pakistan, that can counterbalance India and accomplish the British/American aspirations in the Indian subcontinent, especially during the time of the Gulf Wars). The referendum, that was held to gather public opinion about the idea of a Muslim state was illegitimate as it was held under foreign occupation and the number of votes were highly limited to the privileged men. The interests of the actual population stretching across the entire subcontinent - the common folk - was vastly unrepresented.
It's about time we stop accepting the British version of Indian history and dig up the facts ourselves to make the truth prevail.
The utter lies regarding RSS n glorification of INC will be always in the videos of these western commenters. I don't understand the logic of these leftist who cites western manipulated sources instead of original from India, "didn't suit agenda I guess".
@@vinaykadam3935 report as misleading
@@hemindrasinhgohil679 I reported you
The voter turnout was only 14%
I highly doubt he just accepted that he has a big team and I’m fairly sure these documentaries are researched well also pakistan isn’t a ik puppet by the way and they didn’t even do anything in the gulf war I beleive but ye maybe they made a mistake but I’m sure they did proper research and didn’t just accept what the British said as seen in the video they were very critical of the empire and said the famine was caused by the British wich the British said it wasnt
I know that the Romanization of Britain was taught in Sandhurst. They must have seen how the Romans, although brutal were ultimately more inclusive. How many British officers and politicians saw the folly of what was happening in India and were powerless to stop it.
Britain: " We shall pay all war reparations in India"
Also Britain: Hey USA can I get *money*
USA: "Yes, just give us all your investments in the Americas for 20% of their market value."
That is the reason for Indian independence. The Americans wanted free trade with India. So they made it a stipulation that Britain leave.
USA : Are you asking 45 trillions??? No way my oil can pay
Britain still paid for it as the money they got of the US were loans and were paid back with interest.
Also we will like India to invest in us then we can pay you your share( which is half)
I am glad that you covered this topic. Thank you!
The Bengal famine is the main reason why I can never see Churchill as nothing but an evil who should be put in the same boat as an Austrian painter and a Georgian mustache man with a red flag. While casualties were certain, Churchill and the actions of the British Empire made it much worse.
@پیاده نظام خان They're already there. USA, especially lmao.
Winston Churchill's dealings with Indians was a disgrace, to say the least!
INC was not a Hindu party, it was a secular party and it formed the Indian government which was supported by as many Indian Muslims as the Muslim league was.
Muslims did not support both those organizations equally, in the provincial elections of 1946 110 out of 117 of the seats reserved for Muslims were won by the muslim league. And even elsewhere Muslims overwhelmingly voted for the muslim league.
@@tanmaigawas4850 true.. more Muslims supported the Muslim league.. no doubt.. but a huge population supported congress too.. pre partition population of Muslims in British India was 23% and post partition 9.4% so approximately 35% supported congress.. you usually only 40% support to win a seat
@@pratikrana7684 well post partition, the indian political landscape was a monopoly. Except for a few left parties the Congress had no opposition on a national scale( Jan sangh came in late 60's and aiadmk was concentrated the southern part of india). So pretty much Congress was the only party they could vote for or anyone really. Even the demographic considered as bjp's vote base- the urban middle class obc and general category hindus might have voted for inc.
@@tanmaigawas4850 congress formed the face of Indian independence struggle and gave the country a strong political foundation years before independence, there wasn't going to be any alternative as no one could have competed against the agitators who kept the fire for independence alive and finally won it.. the contributions of amazing extremist can't be denied but people get attracted to a stable institution for governance which benefited congress in the begging years which it keeps on exploiting still.
@@pratikrana7684 well you are not wrong in saying that the inc fought vigorously throughout it's inception till the end of the freedom struggle ( even k.b. hedgewar and savarkar were Congress members earlier in their life) but towards the end of the movement, in the 1940's most of the Congress leadership was behind bars and the freedom movement pretty much dimmed down ( one of the reason savarkar wrote the humiliating plea to the British- to reignite the movement in the west, although failing to do so because of being under kind of under house arrest) so I don't think you can completely give the credit to inc. It was the added pressure by the navy uprising, the violent revolutionary movement, the ina and the ww2 that gave us our independence ( inc was just the face). And the Congress post independence is not the same as pre-independence because of the whole leadership change and gandhi's insistence of the dissolution of congress.
3:10 the video actually starts here, you're welcome.
Just a small correction, India actually decided to be secular not Hindu state. And Gandhi was in the opposition of partition, rest are okay
Yup
When the world secular was added into constitution?
@@friendlyatheist9589 Separation of religion and state in India was recognised in a series of constitutional amendments starting with Article 290 in 1956, to the addition of word 'secular' to the Preamble of Indian Constitution in 1975. The Supreme Court of India in the 1994 case S. R. Bommai vs Union of India established the fact that India was secular since the formation of the republic..................
@@friendlyatheist9589 Secular and Socialist was added to Indian constitution in 1976 after 42nd amendment act was passed
@@eucenor4171 what joke?! It was true he opposed partition to the day he died
As an Indian, I'm so happy to see this often overlooked topic being covered by you. Loved the video!
British: *Burns Bengal's economy to the ground*
Japanese: *Bombs Bengal to the ground*
.....and this is why we wanted independence
britain needed food and materials for the war, they were being blockaded by the axis powers, so in their eyes why save a colony rather than the homeland
@@drunkenpeanut6582 So to save resources, they used precious metal and explosives to raze a colony to the ground? Yeah, make sense if they were handing out food and materials to the locals and simply couldn't stop
@@burgerfanman are you on about the scorched earth thing?
@@drunkenpeanut6582 they were the colony back then...It was our homeland...they intentionally caused the famine.
The British administration left India 74 years ago, but why do Indians still live in slums?
My great-great grandfather actually fought in WW2 as an Indian soldier. I never met him and most of my remaining relatives don't have any information of him, but I'm doing my best to find out what I can.
Can we just talk about how wholesome it is that an art school in Austria passes all its students? I wonder what made them decide it. 🤔
lmao
Especially students with mustaches
i know don't about passing, but everyone is accepted though
i read in his autobiography that school was not impressed with his paintings
@@razasayyed382 He was great at drawing buildings and structures but he was not that much skilled at drawing humans and animals.
I studied Ghandi some years ago but never learned the true extent of Indian involvement in the war. Such brave people made to sacrifice everything. They really do deserve so much credit for their heroism. Many thanks for this video!
Gandhi was an overrated racist.
You studied Gandhi so well that you can't spell his name right. 🤣 Caught in 4K📸
And if you actually studied then you wouldn't call a Pervert Incest Bastard as Hero. He used to sleep naked with his Niece and granddaughter.
Gandhi was evil
You should know abou netaji subhash Chandra Bose
This is never a Indian perspective, this is a western perspective. Most of Indian didn't joined the Allied because of Princely State, but for the Motherfucker Gandhi. Gandhi a British agent, a man responsible for partition of India, a man who misled the Indians. You mischievously associated RSS with Hittler when there is no similarity in between their ideals, one is a Hindu, other is a Christian extremist. Except some freedom fighters believed "Enemy of enemy, is a friend
You should include Jallianwalla bagh massacre(April 1919) done by general Dyre with support from O'Dwyer (then governor of Punjab) to see how the British handled rebellion in India. It was as brutal as Hilters acts.
I hope this is not even taught in Any of the countries which has gone through draconic imperial queens rule.
It's about India during 2nd world war
No it wasn't as bad as Hitler, because British were killing people.
Well the topic isn't related to it
My great-grandfather fought in Burma for the British Indian army. Glad to finally see credits given to brave Indian soldiers like him
Thank you very much sir for including Netaji's part which most western historians omit , ignore or vigorously condemn
Joy Shubhash Chandra Bose ❤️
Heil Bose!
@@DxvinderSingh1699 why are you angry
He was mentioned only briefly and then dismissed as an illegitimate part of the freedom struggle.
@Gaius Octavius This is unequivocally false. You forget he was a freedom fighter for a very long time and even bested Gandhi in INC elections 20 years prior to independence.
At the bare minimum, Bose had the self-respect to not fight for his colonial masters who would continue to treat him like a slave.
Now we need WWII from a Japanese Perspective, cuz why not.
Omg yes
I would love this for a future video
How about 'battle of the Somme, British perspective' I think that would be interesting
A documentary of Manchukuo would be interesting. The Last Chinese Emperor acting as a Japanese puppet in north east china.
The Japanese see themselves as "liberators". However, they're culturally different from the west. That's why they're brutal against POW because they believe they brought dishonor to their country and should fight to the death.
Traditional British skill: be sure to mess them up among themselves when you give them freedom
Like what they did In India,
They followed a Policy of Divide and Rule, dividing Hindus and Muslims. British also gave support to Muslim Nationalism and Separatism. they also supported Partition of India due to which over 1 million people died and mass migration took place.
British literally did a mess of India which was once biggest GDP in the world.
Not a new thing looks at Africa and Israel and india
Richtofen 😳
@@fx_1513 ja?
@@AashutoshPayal Hindus and Muslims were divided before the British arrived in India. Don’t pin India’s failures on the British.
A correction please. "Some Indians" did not considered INA as a legitimate part of Independence Movement. "All Indians" considered INA as a legitimate part of Independence Movement.
That is a retrospective bias
I took a college history class on the British Empire and my professor explained that the famine in India was good intentions gone wrong. According to him, the British ruined Bengal only to deny the Japanese resources. One of my fellow classmates challenged his explanation and compared the British ruining of Bengal to an analogy where a sea captain decided to sink his own ship that's full of civilians enable to deny pirates a ship. She asked if deliberately sinking a ship with people on it to deny pirates a ship was worth saying it was all in good intentions or just treating people as expendable. My professor conceded to her point and apologized but pointed out the text book he based his lectures on were written by the British. "British people don't like to think of themselves as the bad guys" was ending remark to the conversation.
Even during war times he stole all our rations and made people starve .
Essentially it was a web of failures.
By that logic, they should have ruined the UK to deny German resources
The British took all the Indian food in Bengal to supply the already surplus Allied supply lines in Europe. So its british induced famine. People were dying in large numbers on streets. Seeing this US President took the issue to Churchill but Churchill said everything is under control in India. Australian and Canadian ships with supplies were to be docked at a Bengal port to provide relief yet again were diverted by the british to Europe. Another incident(Not sure if it is true). Subhash Bose, the leader of Indian National Army was allied to the Japanese and fighting with british with intentions to free India from Britain. Also he was from Bengal and seeing his people starve, he sent whatever supplies he can through ships, yet again denied entry by the british.
Churchill was just as cruel as hitler, hitler hated jews and churchill hated indians.
15:43 the inc was not promoting Hinduism over the country it was the failing of government negotiation in United provinces after the elections bw Congress and muslim league and congress against seperate electorate based on religious lines which led to lahore session demanding seperate country
By the way you make good content, seen various of your vids -nice serious tone with great scripting
The Inc was actually doing "less apesement" . If you research about the actions of Gandhi during the mopallah genocide you would understand.
@@pratyushkishore9030 malabar rebellion (yeah congress never apposed the high class Hindus but generally did not promoted them either) is not really concerned with promoting Hinduism ,as told by this youtuber who is generally following a colonial approach towards indian history
@@pratyushkishore9030 but congress was supported by majority hindus.
thanks a ton for covering this topic, considering the extent of our sacrifice, ex-colonies such as india often get way less attention than deserved. The documentary was also really well crafted and thoroughly researched. Thanks again
I’m from Bengal & the “Bengal famine” was just one Hell thrown toward people of Indians by those Nasty Brits “The one who till date lectures the world on Democracy is the one Evil whose punishment is due”
It was done by japanese
WHEN Indian men fought the Japanese in Burma, the conflict was so brutal that white commanders were scared to go to the forest. Indian men kept their ground. There are stories of supernatural elements from that conflict.
dont forget da Gurkhas
@@utkarshchoudhary3870 Yes, they were there, but merely less than 5% of the whole.
@@seventhuser904 numbers dont matter when you realize their contribution was vital
@@utkarshchoudhary3870 well it's war number does matter
@nishant kumar what supernatural elements are you talking about?
Thank you so much for this, the Indian perspective is almost never told!
No its *never* told
Lot of perspectives are never told, I miss the old days of Medal of Honor where I learned historical facts and just general about the war
@@SEELE-1946 It's told, but rarely.
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its honestly not even taught in india either, not much empahsis is put on the various aspects of the war or the role of the indian army in various theatres for that matter.
Its just entirely about gandhi, and independence movement, and british bad etc... you get the impression that india was the only country that suffered through the war, and it feels very narrow and india-centric. The events are not put in perspective of the bigger picture of the crisis in the world at the time.
This was presented like a fairytale. Indians cared neither British or Nazi as both looked down upon brown people. Though I appreciate that their contribution is recognised.
Indian leaders helped in recruitment for thier own reasons like better say in policy making or having Indian soldiers revolt from within British army (which actually happened). One, more thing after learning abt genocide at the near end of war not a single leader from either side supported Nazi.
Exactly, these people doesn't even take into account that the information about yhe horrors committed by Hitler were only revealed near the end of the war when Allied armies marched through Germany. It was not the internet age that people were uploading videos of concentration camps from inside germany for the world to see. At the onset of war Hitler's stand as a leader of a war torn and subdued country fighting with colonial powers (ie. Britain,France) for his country's unshackling was very much believable.
@@kushalkarmodiya if only it had been the internet age, it would be very interesting to see. the allies created that humanitarian crisis nightmare themselves by bombing germany into the stone age, leaving no infrastructure, just zombie people and the shell of a retreating military slaughtered by communists, eating up all of the rations. Starvation = mass disease = no ddt = allied propaganda machine. you are lucky to not be born in a country where everything else beyond that is a lie you cannot question, yet is part of your 24/7 regiment of what you learn, see, think and do. the deeper you dig, the more you realize it's just one lie after another.
Hey, at least most northern Indians are Indo-Aryan origin, so the failed Austrian Painter still respected them
@@kwanlinus6999 yea, it's funny how much I'll get attacked for my comment, but at the end of the day my opinion is let the indians be and develop their own culture. That's the most hilarious thing about the "anti-racists", they want to imperialize and force everyone to subscribe to what they believe and act how they do, with all the consequences thereof; in reality, every single society and every single system would work if every one person subscribed to the ideals whether nationalism, socialism, woke-ism, yet the latter, which comes packed with "anti-racist" dogma is marred by hypocrisy, racialisms when they say there is none, notions of supremacy and elitism when they say there is none. Today's google doodle, I present to you, is a homage to Aztlan, La Raza, etc. It says, and I sh!t you not, as you click through the doodle, "my blood is pure". What is the point of this? Either we all are the same, or we aren't. You can't talk out of two sides of your mouth and claim that we are one, that's called divide and conquer and all they are doing is just inverting the social order, they aren't abolishing it. And meanwhile, they control ALL our countries, so there is no escaping this. It's no different that the g-d damned British empire, except hating the slave class, white europeans, is somehow righteous.
@@kwanlinus6999 stfu already with that ...
The whole Aryan word thing was popularised by a French writer from the word arya in europe after william johnes the oriantialist translated many works of the dharmic scriptures into English.. ( Hinduism , Jainism , budhism... They were considered as the dharmic philosophy it's only now that we see rigid differentiation b/w them as different religions.. otherwise before they were considered just as dharmic ideas with anyone being anything )
Germans were influenced by it a lot ..
And the word Arya in sanskrit just means noble people ..
The superior race thing was put in by the Germans after realising and being impressed with the indian civilization .. so to cope they said "we are Aryans and invaded and did all that civilization stuff" ..
It has nothing to do with actual race of Aryans or something.
So no hitler didn't have sudden respect for indian people in north suddenly...
And above is also the reason for Germans using sanskrit in their science literature alot...
My maternal great grandfather was sent to fight in world war 2 and my mother told me that whenever he was checked by officials with a metal detector they would get suspicious and everytime he had to explain them that the metal detector is beeping because of the bullet in his body.
And one time, a bullet passed him just touching his ear.
Qadam Qadam Badhaye Ja
Khushi Ke Git Gaye Ja
Ye Zindagi hai kaum ki
Tu qaum pe lutaye ja
Love India!!! From Philippines
@Krrish Master No, the language is both Hindi and Urdu
@@gyanmarcorole ingen fan? lol
how do you know this po?
What does that mean
@@theboyofjoyy Keep stepping, stepping forward, Keep singing songs of happiness!
Your life belongs to the people, spend it in servitude!
When an Austrian painter invaded Poland so you as an Indian man have to fight the Japanese in Burma for the British
HAHAHA...IS THAT NOT A SATIRE??TODAY..THE US/HAS CREATED A BETTER JOKE//THE 'KUAD'..WHICH IS,AUSTRALIA/US/INDIA /JAPAN..ALL THE LOOSER IN ONE BASKET..
@@dragonfly1929 Let me tell u a better joke
"Trump and KKK are good"
At that point, before Pearl Harbour, Indian soldiers went to fight in North Africa against Germany and Italy.
Pearl Harbour was followed by a naval carrier group assault on Ceylon, with air raids on Colombo and Trincomalee with largely civilian casualties since the Royal Navy had put to sea. They ended up losing a couple of battleships anyway.
That was before the land assaults on Indochina, Malaya, Indonesia and Burma. The video does not mention that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were occupied and there was a punitive raid on North Sentinel Island because the inhabitants were unfriendly.
Subhas Chandra Bose visited the islands and appointed his own governors, though real power was in Japanese hands. The islanders did not have a good experience under Japanese rule.
@@dragonfly1929 lmao what do you think of your countries aircraft carrier near Bombay for training and ur Royce Royal trying to sell electric warships
As a fan of this channel, unfortunately, i have to say that this video is rife with inaccuracies.
1. the INC was never "hindu focused" , they always batted for secualrism(which was really pluralism),
2. the Muslim league wasnt built on the premise of muslims becoming 2nd class citizens , rather it was about the 2 nation theory which proclaimed that hindus and muslims cant live with one another in a non-muslim hegemony ( see sir syed ahmad khan and the 1930 declaration),
3. the muslim league was all about islamic nationalism and the concept of dar-al-harb,
4. the RSS along with the HS and VHP were the only hindu focused groups and they didnt get a political token to influence decisions within the INC.
so yeah, the partion of india has more to do with islamism than anything else.
What about Nehru report,
which is the biggest factor of separation of India
Exactly 💯
Good we got Pakistan ❤️❤️🔥
@@hke.4475 you guys are doing real well! Congratulations!
@@hke.4475 And pakistan has zero friends and is soon to be eaten by China. Thank god the USA has left after betrayal after betrayal!
Even till now I am proud to hear my hometown being called out and recognized. I still remember my dad telling us over dinner about the chaos and confusion among North eastern Indians and the Japanese as the Indian Army were incapable of distinguishing the locals from the Japanese. A lot of locals were even killed due to this chaos and even multiple villages were bombed over the suspicion of harboring Japanese refugees. Even with such treatment, I am still immensely proud that my people chose Honey over vinegar. There were no bias to any side, both were given medical and food aid, even leading to awkward tensions among the British/Indian army soldiers and the Japanese under the same roof and sharing a bowl of rice.
Stories like these are not just stories for me ,it is a memory that has been passed down from my great grandfather(grandfather's father). From him taking part in defending our hometown ,whoever may be a threat to us, the Japanese or the Indian Army.
The war however left a lot of ammunition in the hands of the locals which gave them a taste of warfare and bloodshed.
After the war and partition, multiple disputes over state independence happened which lead to insurgencies by extremist organization.
From my Great-grandpa fighting in the WW2 to My own father having to defend himself and my mother with an AK-47, to bring her to the district hospital where my brother was born.
For us the war is still very recent, Peace hasn't come to the borders yet. Some might disagree and say this is the most peaceful time ever in the history of our land, However I see it as a calm before the storm. There will be further segregation due to race, religion, borders, language and culture. All I can hope is pray for Unity and Peace.
Also I thank The armchair Historian for giving us proper Exposure and respectfully being accurate. It is far better than the one paragraph that was written in Indian 10th standard history book (ISC). My disappointment was immeasurable. That's why I am thankful for your incredibly kind gesture by telling the story of our history. You did an amazing job, I thank you.
“The Story of Two Frances: A WW2 Drama” would be a good subject to review.
Respect to all of the indian soldiers who died for the greater good. They fought very bravely especially the sikhs
Edit: guys I was just paying my respects not looking to start the 5th Indo-Pakistan war 😂
There where viciously aggressive fighters. Those boys would loose a whole unit but make sure the enemy paid a higher price.
They shouldn’t have died for a war that didn’t affect them.
@@umaryusuf537 the Japanese brought the war to them. But they shouldn't have been fighting for the British that where no better then the axis in Many ways
@@umaryusuf537 should would could
@@umaryusuf537 you're wrong
Liberals: The man-made Ukrainian famine is proof that the Stalin regime was evil! Such a thing would never happen in a capitalist country.
Britain: *shoves Bengal Famine and Irish Potato Famine under the rug.
@Nick Fury the White Indeed. Plus, some historians dispute if the 1932-1933 famine (which Russia and Kazakhstan) was intentional, but still ergregiously erronious.
But that's only one famine engineered many more died as a result.
@SirSnufflelots now wikipedia British engineered famines in India.
Blame it on Winston Churchill who ensured so many Bengali people died in the famine! He was Evil!
So Liberals love capitalism? Hmmm
15:43 Why have Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh and Gilgit Baltistan been shown as part of Pakistan? India has cultural, legal and religious, authority and assimilation with the region. Furthermore, the issue is still disputed. Therefore, kindly update the video.
See ....one one cares
Nw India Is In Second Position as The Largest Muslim Populated Country, And You Though that They are Living In Kashmir💀!!But Still i don't Get The Logic Of Separating a Nation, Specially fr Muslims as a New Country called Pakistan!?
@@empire3955 They will when we take it back.
@maitreytelang2312 And until you take it back, the maps will stay the same.
Be carefully though or we might have to update maps due to India losing territory.
@@Suksass The 4 Hindustan-Pakistan wars have aptly reflected how imaginary the possibility of Hindustan loosing territory to Pakistan is. With an Armed Forces who have called off training exercises due to a lack of funds, it wouldn’t be prudent to believe that Pakistan would have any chance of winning in an Hindustan-Pakistan confrontation.
My Grandfather fought in Burma as a doctor from British Army. It was horrific and unimaginable what he recalled from that time.
Same here bro. Great grandfather in my case. He was seconded from the indian medical service and given rank commensurate to his years in service as a doctor. He was from noakhali east bengal
Finally! A "country perspective" video from this channel that hasn't been talked to death already. Good job, TAH! Keep up the good work ^^
I'm from sri lanka Ealier known as ceylon and my great grandfather fought ww2 in the British Royal army as a major in the front line. I'm so proud of that representation in my family and glad this is being brought forward.
keep making videos
What Hitler is for Jews is Winston Churchill for Indians. While one is projected as villian and demonised (which he absolutely deserves) the other is projected as a hero. Widely praised, liked and followed. But no one talks about the atrocities he committed against Indians. Not even an acknowledgement . Forget other countries, what's tragic is even many Indians don't know about it.
If you don't know what I'm talking about then learn about Churchill's view on Indians and his manufactured Bengal famine.
Bengal famine was a result of 3 things:
Natural disasters
Japanese carpet bombing
British exporting what little grain was left
@@angadsingh9314 can you tell who was solely responsible for your third reason? (I like how you placed it at third) And if it weren't for that third reason, deaths by starvation could've been prevented by a large scale
@@angadsingh9314 british actively diverted grain imports away from bengal
My Grandfather also served the British empire in world war 2. He was awarded the Burmese star by Prince Edward, the Duke of York in 2018. My grandfather passed away in 2019.
The great Gurkhas?
Shurely some mishtake? Prince Andrew is the Duke of York, Prince Edward is the Earl of Wessex.
@@Vikram-jv9wp no. Gurkhas were from Nepal not Burma.
@@garvchachan5853 ofcourse i know that but Gurkhas were the one who participated in highest numbers and also won several victoria crosses. Moreover Gurkhas are not necessarily Nepalese. Several regions of Gurkha land are in india as well.
@@Vikram-jv9wp yess...I meant that their identity is Nepali....so😅
A wonderful video. I would like to suggest 2 corrections:
1) There can be drawn similarities in ideologies of RSS and Hitler; but that doesn't mean they were supporters were Hitler.
2) Do not represent India as the Hindu side while partition. Pakistan might be the Muslim side. But India was never a (only) Hindu state.
Yes hindus didn't wanted the partition and RSS was created after muslim league was formed
But the hard fact is because of Hitler, Britain and France had to let go of many colonies.
He gave anti imperials the opportunity to throw them out whether you like it or not.
RSS means Rashtiya Swayamsevak Sangh which means National Self Dependent Party, this people shouldn't join National organization with Facism or other, Hindus were tolerant and suffered the most 🙏🏻
Lol contemporary rss leaders vocally supported hitler and his ways. Some lad known as savarkar even supported him after his treatment of jews was common news. U shud stop supporting fascism
@@aryanyadav3690 rss is fascist tho and armchair historian is right here
As a Belgian I would like to thank the many Indians who helped defeat the Reich
I bet the Congolese would beg to differ
@@Zones33 I bet he doesn't know much about what you are referring to.
The Indian can be Hero again if they help the west to push the Russians out of Europe.
@@tony4887 So Europe could cheer on and give their moral support like its doing now for Ukraine.
@@Zones33 The Congolese don't like Indians?