British Indian Army
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The INA (Indian National Army)
Hamid Hussain recounts the Indian National Army, formed in the Second World War from Indian prisoners captured by the Japanese, against the rapid wartime expansion of the Indian Army and…
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Martial Races Theory. Myths and Consequences
Agha H. Amin’s chapter from his book on 1857-59 examines the ‘Martial Races’ theory, floated after the Sepoy rebellion and championed by Lord Roberts, and the myths still believed in…
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Lt Gen SK Sinha
Hamid Hussain remembers Lieutenant General S. K. Sinha (1926-2016), who came from a Bihar police family, joined the army at the end of the Second World War and spent three…
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General Mohammed Akbar Khan (and some others)
Hamid Hussain profiles Major General Muhammad Akbar Khan (1897-1993), the senior-most Muslim officer at independence, tracing his Minhas Rajput family’s fortunes under Sikh and British patronage and his career in…
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Film: Royal Indian Army Service Corps in World War 2
Hamid Hussain introduces a ten-minute wartime film on the Royal Indian Army Service Corps in France, noting its animal transport, a presentation to the King, and three people in it,…
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Mangal Pandey. Truth and Fiction
Hamid Hussain checks scene by scene how far the film Mangal Pandey: The Rising follows the historical record, noting that its core facts are broadly intact but that the Afghanistan…
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Mangal Pandey. Truth and Fiction
Hamid Hussain checks the film Mangal Pandey: The Rising against the historical record, scene by scene, finding the core facts of the 1857 episode kept intact but much invented, such…
