In the last decade, India’s monumental yet long-overlooked contributions to the Allied victories in World Wars I and II have begun garnering the commemorative and discursive attention that they deserve. With the unearthing of fresh shreds of evidence of the Indian soldier’s stunning valour and course-altering feats on unfamiliar, distant, and gruelling battlefields — especially those of war-ravaged Europe — the mainstream comprehension of how Indians impacted the World Wars, and how the two watershed conflicts in turn impinged on India’s future, has only become more layered.