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Polish citizens in Nawanagar, India
Remembrance and Justice, Vol. 18 No. 2 (2011), pages: 233-254
Publication date: 2011-12-30
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Abstract
Polish citizens in Nawanagar, India
The history of the 1940 journey across India of Polish citizens evacuated by
Gen. Anders is well known to historians. Literature on the subject presents the
view that the journey to India and the provision of housing took place under the
auspices of a program sponsored by Great Britain. Yet a careful analysis of
documents has shown that it was the Indian princely state of Nawanagar that first
offered to accommodate the Polish children evacuated from the USSR in 1941.
The first 500 Polish children were hosted in Balachadi, Nawanagar, and supported
with charity funds collected in India by Indian princes and other wealthy
individuals. Between 1942 and 1948, Indian citizens’ donations for the maintenance
of the Polish orphans amounted to the sum of 600,000 rupees (44,250 pounds
sterling, the equivalent of 64,241.51 present-day pounds sterling).
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