The Global Ramifications of India’s Role in the Great War

This presentation employs global or world historical analysis to illuminate how India's participation in the war altered events beyond its frontiers. It supports that analysis with case studies of such developments as the rise of modern Turkey and the modern Middle East, the crippling of the course of modernization in Afghanistan, the rise of African nationalism, and the global stage the war enabled the growth of the "Ghadar" or Mutiny Party in India into an international revolutionary movement, which, along with further developments, served to destabilize Western imperial arrangements from the Persian Gulf to Singapore and strained Anglo-American relations.