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During the Opium Wars, Indian soldiers were sent by the British Empire as Expeditionary Forces commanded by British generals. In addition, there was the Eight Nation Alliance so French came with Black soldiers, and Americans and other countries came with their armies.
A primary account of the atrocities in China against Chinese people is by an Indian soldier by the name of Gadadhar Singh, who wrote a book in Hindi, "Cin me Terah Mas" (13 months in China).
Beijing, Tianjin, and other cities in northern China were occupied for more than one year by the international expeditionary force under the command of German General Alfred Graf von Waldersee. Atrocities by foreign troops were common. French troops ravaged the countryside around Beijing on behalf of Chinese Catholics.
The Americans and British paid General Yuan Shikai and his army (the Right Division) to help the Eight Nation Alliance suppress the Boxers. Yuan Shikai's forces killed tens of thousands of people in their anti Boxer campaign in Zhili Province and Shandong after the Alliance captured Beijing
A primary account of the atrocities in China against Chinese people is by an Indian soldier by the name of Gadadhar Singh, who wrote a book in Hindi, "Cin me Terah Mas" (13 months in China).
A unique and sensitive first-hand account of the Boxer operations by an Indian who was part of the Allied Expedition has come down to us. Gadadhar Singh was a soldier with one of the first Indian contingents to arrive in north China as part of the Expeditionary Force. His record of what he saw and thought throws light on the feelings that may have agitated some Indian soldiers who were gradually awakening to a sense of the injustice that was being perpetrated on the Chinese by the foreign powers, and were filled with despair at the role being played by Indians in it.