About the Author

Vedica Kant holds an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford, where her thesis focused on pan-Islamic movements in the Middle East and South Asia during the Cold War. She also has a BSc in Economics and Political Science from Singapore Management University. Vedica has written widely on Turkish and South Asian history, politics and culture including for The Turkish Review, The Majalla, Asharq Al-Awsat, Live Mint, The Sunday Guardian and The National Geographic Traveller. In addition to working on the history of the Indian involvement in the First World War, she is also contributing to a chapter on the remembrance of the First World War in Turkey to an edited volume Remembering the First World War to be published by Routledge UK. Vedica is a native speaker of both English and Hindi, is proficient in Urdu and Turkish, and has a basic knowledge of French.