Some five million Commonwealth servicemen joined the military services of the British Empire during the war. Almost half of them were from South Asia. What happened with the Indian soldiers in ...

When he returned to duty with his regiment in 1917, he was a war hero celebrated in the Indian media. Yet Dast decided to quit the British service that year. He did so by joining his brother on ...

a fighter in the Russian Civil War, a pioneering Indian communist, a member of the Presidium of the Sixth Congress of the ...

But here we're looking at one particularly adept group of fighters, the Sikh soldiers of the British Indian Army. The important role they played and how they were treated once the war had been won.

Here's Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor's account of the looting, from his book The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels & Indian Allies: York’s ...

The British Empire was ruled by the Royal ... officers and white English nurses were not allowed to treat Indian soldiers. When the war ended, India was not allowed to govern itself.

They served in the British and Indian armies following India’s independence ... Russia has been using Gurkha soldiers in its war with Ukraine. POOL/AFP via Getty Images Russian president ...

Lance Naik Charan Singh, a WWII veteran, celebrated his 100th birthday with army honors, sharing memories and health tips ...

Local media has shared images suggesting Chinese troops were keen to publicize their presence within India-controlled Arunachal Pradesh.

Rani, a British-Indian TV presenter herself ... British government’s policies where grain was lifted off to fund its war rations. In India, it resulted in malaria, starvation and malnutrition.

British YouTuber Miles Routledge joked about launching nuclear bombs at India and accused, without evidence, an anonymous troll of being Indian in a ... evacuated from the war-torn country.