The Rashtriya Rifles (RR) is undoubtedly the most significant organisational innovation undertaken by the Indian…
Sep-Oct 2015
MARATHAS IN COUNTER INSURGENCY OPERATIONS
The history of insurgencies in the Indian context took root even as Pandit Nehru was…
REMINISCENCES AS HONORARY COLONEL OF THE REGIMENT
At the outset, I would like to admit that the account that follows is neither…
MARATHAS IN THE 1971 INDO-PAK WAR
During the 1971 war, the Marathas saw action on both fronts. In the Western theatre,…
MARATHAS IN THE 1965 INDO PAK WAR
After Independence in 1947 and the merger of the former princely states in 1949, two…
MARATHAS IN WORLD WAR II – 1939-46
Between 1939 and 1946, six battalions of the Mahratta Regiment served on the Western Front,…
MARATHAS IN WORLD WAR I – 1914-18
At the outbreak of the First World War (WW-1), there were just six Maratha units…
PRINCELY STATES AND THE REGIMENT
Aprincely state was a nominal sovereign entity of India during the British Raj that was…
THE MARATHA LIGHT INFANTRY: VALOUR AND TRADITION
Maratha valour is often associated with Shivaji, the illustrious king, whose saga remains a very…