In 1917, when Kazi Nazrul Islam was eighteen, he enlisted in the British Indian Army. Attached to the 49th Bengal Regiment, he was posted to the cantonment in Karachi. He served in the army for two years, returning to Calcutta in 1920. He did not see active fighting, but performed well as a soldier, rising from corporal to havildar or sergeant, and serving as quartermaster for his battalion. While in Karachi, he both read and wrote, with the prose piece, \"Baunduler Atmakahini\" (The Autobiography of a Vagabond), being published in May 1919 and the poem \"Mukti\" (Freedom) being published in July that year. His experiences of life as a soldier inspired him to write a novel which began to be serialized in Moslem Bharat from mid-April 1920. Seven years later, Bandhon Hara (Unfettered) appeared as a book
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