Question

Write World War II and India in detail.

Indian military aid to the British

Answer 1

1. The British fought their war from the Indian land.
2. For them India was their colony and they took it in their right to use it as a source of supplying industrial products, cloth and other commodities of daily use to their allied nations.
3. Their war supplies from India included dynamite, tanks, material required for ship repairing, steel pipes, steel bars and other material for laying railway tracks, train bogies, wood, telegraph posts, smaller war ships and steam ships, food grains, cloth, tents, shoes, medicines, explosives and ammunition and such things.
4. The British Government established several factories in India to meet the requirement of supply of these materials.