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Historically, many UK schools have taught the First World War as a predominantly white, British experience, dominated by the fate of Pals Battalions on the Western Front. This approach edits out the vital contribution to the British and Allied war effort made by non-European forces in Western Europe, including the service of one-and-a-half million men recruited from the Indian subcontinent. The history curriculum can leave South-Asian pupils and those with South-Asian heritage alienated by the impression that the First World War was a white man’s conflict and where the record of their own ancestor`s involvement is absent. Also, teachers need to explain that colonial India, from which the troops came, included what eventually became Pakistan and Bangladesh, not just modern India.