The Indian Sepoy in First World War Culture: Objects, Images, Songs

The Camp Fire. Indians in the grounds of a Chateau at Poperinghe, c1914.

NAM. 1996-05-17-1

In this talk Dr Santanu Das will examine the literary, visual and aural culture of Indian soldiers in the First World War.

Most Indian soldiers could not write and left no trace of their war experiences through diaries, letters or journals. Through trench artefacts, memoirs, photographs, paintings, and original sound recordings from prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, Dr Das has uncovered the sepoys’ literary, visual and aural culture of the time.

This talk is part of the National Army Museum’s regular Lunchtime Lectures series.

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