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PARAM VIR

Major General Ian Cardozo was born in Mumbai and studied at St Xaviers School and College. In July 1954, he joined the Joint Services Wing which later became the National Defence Academy. Here he was the first cadet to win the gold medal for being the best all-round cadet, and the silver medal for being first in order of merit. He was commissioned at the Indian Military Academy into the 1st Battalion the Fifth Gorkha Rifles (FF) in 1958 and was one of the first officers to be awarded the Sena Medal for gallantry on a patrol in NEFA in 1960. Wounded in the battle of Sylhet in Bangladesh in 1971, he overcame the handicap of losing a leg and became the first officer to be approved for command of an Infantry Battalion. He retired in 1993 from his appointment as Chief of Staff of a Corps in the East.

Author of The Sinking of INS-Khukri: Survivors Stories , he has worked with the Spastics Society of Northern India. At present he is working for persons with disability as Chairman of the Rehabilitation Council of India and is the Vice President of the War Wounded Foundation.

OTHER TITLE OF MAJ. GEN. IAN CARDOZO

The Sinking of INS Khukri-Survivor's Stories

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Lotus Collection

Ian Cardozo 2003

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
without the prior permission of the publisher.

First published in hardback, 2003
Second edition in hardback, 2003
Third edition in hardback, 2005
This paperback edition first published in 2008
Second edition in paperback, 2009
Third impression, 2012
The Lotus Collection
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ISBN: 978-81-7436-262-9

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
THE WAR IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR 19471948

CHAPTER II
THE SINO-INDIAN WAR 1962

CHAPTER III
THE INDO-PAKISTAN WAR 1965

CHAPTER IV
THE INDO- PAKISTAN WAR 1971

CHAPTER V
THE KARGIL WAR MAYJULY 1999

CHAPTER VI
UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
AND WAR AT SIACHEN

ANNEXURE II: Sardar Patels Letter to the
Prime Minister 7 November 1950

ANNEXURE IV: Equating British and Indian
Highest Awards for Gallantry in the Field

ANNEXURE VII: The Story of Subedar Kishenbir
Nagarkoti IOM

Dedicated to
The Unknown Soldier

Acknowledgements

I am very indebted to the following persons, organisations, and institutions for the help I have received in putting together this story of the Param Vir Chakra and the men who won it. Without their contribution, this book could not have been written. These include authors of books, regimental histories, search engines on the Internet, articles in newspapers and magazines, letters from officers and friends of the awardees, interviews with those who were part of some of the campaigns and battles, and persons, military and civil, whose advice has been invaluable.

To Commanding Officers of battalions and Commandants of Regimental Centres who took time off from their busy schedules, I offer my special thanks and also to civilian persons of Bharat Rakshak and Google.com who have taken so much trouble to put together accounts of a military nature including information on the Param Vir Chakra. Listed below are sources of information which have helped in putting together this story, and whose help I wish to acknowledge.

Commandants of Regimental Centres and Commanding Officers of Units

For citations, photographs, accounts of battles, and personal narratives of the Param Vir Chakra awardees:

Brigadier P.K. Saxena, Commandant Kumaon Regimental Centre

Brigadier Vijay Aga, Commandant HQ Bombay Engineering Group and Centre

Brigadier Kamal Sood, Commandant 14 Gorkha Training Centre

Colonel T.P.S. Gill, Officiating Commandant Sikh Regimental Centre

Colonel S.S. Ghosh, Deputy Commandant Brigade of the Guards Regimental Centre

Colonel Jasbir Singh and Colonel Y.K. Joshi, VrC, Commanding Officers of 13 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles

Colonel R.V. Kanetkar, Commandant the Poona Horse

Colonel Satish Dua, Commanding Officer 8 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry

Colonel P.D. Hallur, Commanding Officer 8 Mahar

Colonel Mam Raj Singh, SM, Commanding Officer 5 Mahar.

Colonel Lalit Kumar Rai, VrC, and Lieutenant Colonel A. Asthana, Commanding Officers 1/11Gorkha Rifles

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