Funding the Empire: Haryana's Financial Contribution to the Great War

Haryana has contributed significantly in the Great War when compared with its population and area and fulfilled the demand of the British in all fields. Unlike the cultivating class, the big Landlords and Zamindars as a class were loyal to the government not because of sentimental attachment to the Britishers but because of vested interests. They had everything to gain by helping the alien government. The money which they would be contributing in various war funds was likely to gain them new sources of income through additional favours of the government when the men they would enroll for the army would come from the peasants. The war had given them the golden opportunity for winning more favours from the benign government which fostered them and under whose benevolence they had flourished so far.