soldiers who fought against french colonial control and indeed against these caretaker troops as they were called of the bia who would later again morph into the viet cong and fight the americans in the vietnam war in a similar way british indian troops were also stationed in the dutch east indies waiting for dutch troops to arrive there and there became embroiled in fighting with indonesian nationalists who would later start the indonesian national revolution something which would eventually culminate in a full-scale war with the netherlands and result in indonesian independence but of course india was itself a colonial possession of the british and now indian soldiers were being sent to what they saw as repressing many of these people for another colonial power so how did indian people feel about fighting for people who really were their colonial overlords needless to say india has come a huge way since the second world war for one it attained its independence and it's now making strides towards modernity in line with some of the most advanced countries in the world even going into space and if you want to find out more about that then i would highly recommend today's video sponsor magellan tv a video streaming service with thousands of different documentaries on history space science and lots more for you to check out in particular there's one called indian space dreams which talks about the country's ambitions in space and especially a more recent project to try and map out we're using a satellite a black hole something that hasn't been done before and that the indian space program would be trying to do on a fraction of nasa's budget while at the same time looking at some of the criticism india has received in its space program as it still has around NUMBER_TOKEN million people living in poverty there's even a special offer for viewers of this channel if they go to URL_TOKEN stroke history with hilbert and if you then buy a year's membership you'll get another annual membership card completely free so that's two years of great documentaries in the bag check it out the link is in the description below and you can also go over to the link on the screen well as we've discussed the inc was a particularly important political party agitating for indian independence and they had been somewhat divided about how to treat the second world war with figures like gandhi believing that india should be given independence before sending its sons and daughters and resources to a conflict in which it had no stakes in NUMBER_TOKEN gandhi gave a famous speech in which he said that india should quit the war and this was known as the quit india movement following this speech he and around NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN other members of the inc were arrested which resulted in widespread protests throughout india now the inc while it did have several members from both sikhs and buddhists jains and muslims was largely seen as being a predominantly hindu movement at the same time there was also another movement called the all india muslim league which as the name suggests was a muslim movement that sought for the creation of a separate muslim nation state apart from the indian state that was being asked for by the inc and of course this was the forerunner to the idea of pakistan and unlike the inc they
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN needless to say india has come a huge way since the second world war for one it attained its independence and it's now making strides towards modernity in line with some of the most advanced countries in the world even going into space and if you want to find out more about that then i would highly recommend today's video sponsor magellan tv a video streaming service with thousands of different documentaries on history space science and lots more for you to check out in particular there's one called indian space dreams which talks about the country's ambitions in space and especially a more recent project to try and map out we're using a satellite a black hole something that hasn't been done before and that the indian space program would be trying to do on a fraction of nasa's budget while at the same time looking at some of the criticism india has received in its space program as it still has around NUMBER_TOKEN million people living in poverty there's even a special offer for viewers of this channel if they go to URL_TOKEN stroke history with hilbert and if you then buy a year's membership you'll get another annual membership card completely free so that's two years of great documentaries in the bag check it out the link is in the description below and you can also go over to the link on the screen END_SPONSOR_TOKEN