During the First World War, India had rallied in support of the Mother Country. In total 1,500,000 Indians volunteered to fight for Britain, and of those 800,000 did. They fought in the Middle-East, in Africa, and in the trenches of the Western Front, 47,746 were killed, 65,000 wounded and 12 Victoria Crosses were won. It was a display of loyalty to the Empire that shocked many for India had been for many years a seething cauldron of resentment. But this support had not been unconditional, a qui