The author claims that omitting mention of Indians who served in the Second World War from the new National War Memorial is:

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The author claims that omitting mention of Indians who served in the Second World War from the new National War Memorial is:

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A.
a reflection of misplaced priorities of the post-independence Indian governments.
B.
a reflection of the academic and popular view of India’s role in the War.
C.
appropriate as their names can always be included in the India Gate memorial.
D.
is something which can be rectified in future by constructing a separate memorial.

Option B is the correct answer.

Explanatory Answer

In the second paragraph, the author clearly states that the reason why the new war memorial is conceived the way it is can be attributed to the fact that ‘both academic history and popular memory have yet to come to terms with India’s second world war’.