The Ethinicity and race of British Armed Forces in the Subcontinent

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They were all white.

and they had some Indian stooges as well.

How could they all be white? How is it possible for Britain to send all its men all across the globe to fight? The population of Britain was not that large to cover the entire globe with all white Europeans.

As you can see, the majority of their men were natives of the Subcontinent. And a large portion were Muslims. And among those muslims a large portion were Pashtuns.

[MazloomyarMaseed]

How could they all be white? How is it possible for Britain to send all its men all across the globe to fight? The population of Britain was not that large to cover the entire globe with all white Europeans.

As you can see, the majority of their men were natives of the Subcontinent. And a large portion were Muslims. And among those muslims a large portion were Pashtuns.

I wouldnt say a Large portion were Pashtuns, as the British employed small groups of them to control a certain area, but most were not loyal. My grandfathers brother, use to be a worker for the British Army in Waziristan, but he use to Kill his officer at night time, Pashtuns were not fully loyal to them at all. On the other hand, Punjabis and Gurkas were regarded as the top Martial race, and were extremely loyalist to the British Empire and Army, they even fought amongst British Units in WW1 and WW2.

[Dinosaur Khan]

I have read some where that 60% of the total were from united Punjab in british army.

[BLS_1919v2.0]

I think you are right dinosaur, as 1/3rd of the british indian army were panjabi muslims, so I assume that sikhs made a big part of the army, along with gurkhas (yes I know they weren't panjabis).

[imb706]

Couldnt those pictures be put into one post?

[Punjabi]

We Punjabis were part of the british empire, Pashtuns were not.

They were mostly resistant towards tere rule