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The voices of Indian PoWs captured in the first world war

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15 November 2014

9:00 AM

15 November 2014

9:00 AM

At six o’clock on 31 May 1916, an Indian soldier who had been captured on the Western Front alongside British troops and held in a German PoW camp stepped up to the microphone and began to speak. Not in Hindi or Urdu, Telugu or Marathi but in perfectly clipped English.

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