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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit
Episode: From the Punjab to the Western Front
Description: Over a million Indian soldiers served during the First World War, but many of the records of the soldiers who fought valiantly for the Allied cause had been lost - hiding their stories from history. Until now. Discovered in a basement of a museum in Lahore, Pakistan, where they had been left unread for 97 years, these newly recovered documents have allowed historians to put the men of the Indian Army back into the story of the allied war effort.To explain the significance of the records that have been found, Dan is joined by Amandeep Madra...