the first world war adventures of nariman karkaria

And in Murali Ranganathan’s brilliant translation, this astonishing story comes alive with rare immediacy and vigour. By December, the same imports had jumped to 1,541,183 tonnes. It is the only known such first-person account by an Indian. In 1922, Nariman Karkarias book on his war experiences, written in Gujarati, was published. Karkaria’s war memoir is truly one of a kind. For example: back in June, when the suspension entered into force, the 27 member states imported 548,838 tonnes of Ukrainian maize. Nariman Karkaria, a young Parsi from Navsari in Gujarat, volunteered as a Private with the 24th Middlesex Regiment on the commencement of the World War I. After being discharged, he returned to India and wrote a book in Gujarati about his years of travel and adventure, which was published in 1922. He was then transferred to the Balkan Front in 1918, where he served in Salonika. After convalescing from an injury, he was sent off to the Middle Eastern Front where he fought in the Battle of Jerusalem in 1917. In 1916, he was in the trenches at the Battle of the Somme. Incredibly, Karkaria saw action on three major fronts in the next three years. Passing through China, Manchuria, Siberia, Russia and Scandinavia, he reached London early in 1915 and managed to register as a private with the 24th Middlesex Regiment.

After working in Hong Kong and Peking for a few years, in 1914, when war was in the air, he decided to volunteer for the British Army. So he left home as a teenager with fifty rupees in his pocket to do just that. Nariman Karkaria, a young Parsi from Gujarat, had always wanted to see the world.

The first world war adventures of nariman karkaria