India's response to WW1 outbreak

Question 1

Where did offers of support pour in from?

Answer 1

Congress, Muslim League, princely states

Question 2

How many princely states supported?

Answer 2

27

Question 3

What was the name of the hospital ship?

Answer 3

Loyalty

Question 4

What extremist politician gave support?

Answer 4

Bal Tilak

Question 5

What did Mohandas Gandhi do?

Answer 5

Urged Indians to participate in the responsibilities of British Empire membership

Question 6

How many combatants enlisted by November 1918?

Answer 6

827,000

Question 7

How many Indian soldiers died in the war?

Answer 7

64,500

Question 8

Where were Indian troops sailing to?

Answer 8

Flanders, Gallipoli, and Mesopotamia

Question 9

What was going to war like for Indians?

Answer 9

Part of their well-established ancestral tradition of obeying the Empire

Question 10

What was shocking about enlistment?

Answer 10

Few claimed to be fighting for India

Question 11

What attitude was reflected in the Western Front letters?

Answer 11

Fighting for the king and the Empire