 "Indian Army")
Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer was British, but was an officer of the Indian Army. The 50 riflemen who opened fire at a peaceful Baisakhi gathering at Amritsar's Jallianwala Bagh, killing 396 and wounding more than a thousand, were Indian soldiers.
Within 25 years, the same Army was fighting on both sides of a small, one-sided but historic war. Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army consisted of Indian prisoners of war with Axis forces. Within three years, in 1947-48 of that fratricide, the Army was at war again, this time to protect its own nation, in Kashmir.
The colonial Army
Within 25 years, the same Army was fighting on both sides of a small, one-sided but historic war. Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army consisted of Indian prisoners of war with Axis forces. Within three years, in 1947-48 of that fratricide, the Army was at war again, this time to protect its own nation, in Kashmir.
The colonial Army
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