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Combatant States - Central powers | Austro - Hungary | Germany | Turkey (Ottoman Empire) | Bulgaria
Combatant States - Allies | Serbia | Russia | France | Belgium | United Kingdom | Australia | Canada | India | New Zealand | Rhodesia | Union of South Africa | United States of America| Italy | Romania | Greece | Montenegro | Portugal | Japan
Entered War : 4 August 1914 (in support of Britain)
Political system : Colony within the British empire
Leader : George V was emperor of India and ruled through his viceroy in New Delhi. The viceroy selected a cabinet from among British officials serving in India.
Population : 320 million (1914)
Army : 155,000 troops in the Indian army, plus an internal security force of 80,000 (1909). One quarter of the infantry and cavalry soldiers were British. The Indian army contained 573,000 men by November 1918, and a total of 1.3m million men saw service during the war.
Casualties by 1918 : 43,000 dead, 65,175 wounded