The Jammu and Kashmir Rifles is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army. Its origins lay in the Jammu and Kashmir State Forces of the princely state of...
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Rifles (RR; transl. National Rifles) is a counter-insurgency/counter-terrorism force in India, formed in 1990, to specifically serve in the Jammu and...
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Jammu. Its regimental insignia consists of a pair of crossed rifles. The regiment mostly consists of volunteers from the state of Jammu & Kashmir and...
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Jammu and Kashmir (abbreviated J&K) is a region administered by India as a union territory and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir...
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Vikram Batra (section Early life and education)
December 1997 and was commissioned as a lieutenant into the Indian Army. He was commissioned into the 13th battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles (13 JAK...
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LOC: Kargil (category Kashmir conflict in films)
leading one of its units. 17 Jat is followed by the 13th battalion, Jammu & Kashmir Rifles (13 JAK Rif) commanded by Maj. turned Lt. Col. Yogesh Kumar Joshi...
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took place from 4 to 7 July 1999 and was a pivotal military offensive carried out by the 13th Jammu and Kashmir Rifles battalion in the Kargil War of 1999...
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also known as the first Kashmir war, was a war fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948. It was...
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Battle of Thorgo (section Ambush and casualties)
Suharwardy, Abdul Haq (1983), Tragedy in Kashmir, Wajidalis Singh, K.Brahma (1990). History of Jammu and Kashmir Rifles, 1820-1956 The State Force Background...
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Jhangar (category Cities and towns in Rajouri district)
Pakistan. Brahma Singh, History of Jammu and Kashmir Rifles (2010), pp. 9, 207. Brahma Singh, History of Jammu and Kashmir Rifles (2010), pp. 9, 246: "Jhangar...
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