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The Colonel was of Scottish descent and served with the King's Own Scottish Borderers in WW I (according to Wikipedia). The trouser pattern in question could well exhibit the unit's (mainly green-and-blue) tartan. Also, the cape he wears appears very similar to those exhibited at the King's Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum's web site. And as for him ...
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The answers @bhau and @coleopterist gave are good and marshal a lot of important evidence, but there are complementary points of view someone ought to mention - so I guess it falls to me to do this.
Madhusree Mukerjee's findings have been disputed by the eminent Indian economist Amartya Sen. I haven't read both books yet but perusal of the wiki entry about ...
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The German Wikipedia article on Propaganda im Ersten Weltkrieg (apparently w/o English version) includes a few more examples, such as a U.S. poster from 1917 that may have preceded King Kong. Starting from there, one can find more British material e.g. here and here.
Unfortunately, it apparently does not reveal specific Indian propaganda posters either. I ...
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