Welcome back to Historic Royal Palace's podcast. I'm Zakira. I work in the exhibitions here at

the Palaces and today is the second of two episodes where we're exploring the story of the

British Indian Army. If you haven't listened to the first episode where we covered the context of

Empire, pop back and listen to that now because we're going to be picking up

where we left off. In this episode, we'll explore the legacy of empire and the British Indian

Army and what relevance it has today. I'm joined again by community curators Raventege.

Welcome back, both. Oh, thanks for having us. Happy to be back.

Raventh, can you just give us a quick recap on where we got up to in the story of the

British Indian Army?

Indeed, in our first episode, we covered the British Empire, the East India Company and the

birth of the British Raj.

And also we looked at the first two encampments prior to the First World War, the encampments

at Hampton Court Palace.

So how are the army involved in the celebrations?

The Indian Army were involved in several ways.

They were primarily involved with the parades and taking part as the Indian Army contingent,

as other colonial contingents did.

So that was, and there's many, many pictures and stereo views that we have of this parade.

And can you explain what a stereo view is?

I don't think most people know what that is.

Yes, of course.

In fact, you can come to the exhibition and view these.

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