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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: contac...@sangath.com or yvo...@sangath.com or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ World War II The victories must be seen as Indian to more than a small degree (in terms of valor, etc), but are seen as British, perhaps simply or largely because over 95% of the officers over the rank of Captain were British, and we fought for the British. This was not so of the ANZACS and the Canadians. Their victories were their own. Aming the battles the Indians/Gurkhas fought bravely were those of the Battle of Monte Cassino. the Gothic Line, and Operation Crusader. If interested I will email online links. World War I About 100,000 Indians perished in World War I. I have seen the graves. They died in Somme, and Givency in France, Ypres in Belgium. Also Gallipoli. At Bastille Day this year, "More than six decades later, the Maratha Light Infantry conquered another frontier with thousands of Parisians watching as 93 of its personnel marched down, led by Captain Vivek Khanduri." http://www.samaylive.com/news/manmohan-singh-attends-bastille-day-parade/638634.html "And the Sikhs: In the First battle of Ypres in Flanders in 1914 a platoon of Sikhs died fighting to the last man, who shot himself with his last cartridge rather than surrender." http://www.sikhspectrum.com/122002/soldiers_ww.htm Some Indians ("Freies Indien") also fought for the Wehrmacht in World War II in the Battaglione Azad Hindoustan in 1942 an remained in Lancenau until two months of the Normandy invasion. http://www.feldgrau.com/ Click on Freiwellige. (Foreign Volunteers). Then on to the India link. The first major defeat that Japanese received was the hands of the Indians in the Battle of Kohima. ++++++++++++ venantius j pinto > Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 17:59:42 -0700 (PDT) > From: Gilbert Lawrence <gilbert2...@yahoo.com> > Subject: [Goanet] Goan Emigration -3 > > > Hi Bosco, > > You have spoken as a?Canadian.?If you were a pukka Canadian, like my White > Canadian brother-in-law who fought in WW II (landing on Normandy beach); he > did not even know that Asian-Indians fought in the WW II, under the British > flag (in North Africa, Italian front and Burma). > > After Whites?are appraised of the Indian statistics, the Whites in Canada, > America and Europe give more credit to the Indian sacrifice; than what is > barely?mentioned in the European history books on WW II. > > My beef with your point is: Indians should not have died in the Europe, > Africa?or?defending British colonies?in other parts of the world. WW II was > not an Asian subcontinent / Indian Ocean war.? I was surprised to see the > Indian civilian causalities in the chart on WW II (1,500,000 to 2,500,000). > Which theater of war were they victims? > > As Gabriel's post suggest, Indian sepoys were against?fighting Gandhi and > his followers; even for their British pay-masters. > > Regards, GL >