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Given his canonisation by mainstream culture as the icon of peace and nonviolence, one might have imagined that Gandhi would have led a strong campaign of resistance to the war. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the case.
While it is well known that Gandhi played a role in raising an Indian ambulance corps to serve in the war at its outset [1], it is perhaps less widely known that he also later recruited Indians to fight in the War.
In April 1918, following a conference in (…)