About how many Indian soldiers fought for Britain during the First World War?

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More than a million

The whole Empire was involved. More than a million Indians served for Britain. The handbook says about 40,000 of them were killed; the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records about 74,000 Indian war dead.

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