Tell about Indian Army?

In 1796, the company had 18,000 Europeans and 84,000 Indians in its uniform, and these numbers had been expanded to 37,000 and 223,000 by 1830.

The famous Bollywood movie Border was based on the Battle of Longewala. The battle was fought between India and Pakistan in which 120 Indian soldiers were up against 2000 Pakistani soldiers. Indians had only one recoilless jeep-mounted M40 rifle while Pakistanis came with one mobile infantry and 45 tanks. Indian soldiers still managed to hold their ground till morning when Indian Air Force came in for aid completely destroyed the Pakistani forces.

Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the vast majority of the soldiers of each army was composed of Indian troops known as sepoys (from the Hindi sipahi, meaning police officer, or, later, soldier).

India carried out its nuclear tests covertly in early 1970s and late 1990s. American intelligence CIA completely failed to find out about the tests until the tests were completed.

Kerala-based Ezhimala Naval Academy of Indian Armed Forces is the largest of its kind in entire Asia.

Sepoy units had Indian junior commissioned officers who could exercise only low-level command. British officers held all senior positions

Indian military is known for its valor but barely does anyone know that MES or Military Engineering Services is actually one of the biggest construction agencies in entire India.

No Indian had any authority over non-Indians. In addition to these all-Indian units, the British deployed some units of the British Army.

There is an base of Indian Air Force in Tajikistan. That is currently the only outstation base but India is looking for another one in Afghanistan.

The forty battalions of which which the Madras army was composed was homogeneous, the men of each regiment being recruited generally from the southern parts of the peninsula

The Bailey Bridge – world’s highest bridge is actually built by Indian Army. It is located between the Suru and Dras rivers in Ladakh Valley in Himalayan Mountains. The bridge was built back in 1982.

The Bombay Army was smaller than that of Madras, consisting of only thirty battalions of infantry, with a little over 20,000 men.

World’s biggest ever civilian rescue was carried out by Indian Armed Forces. It was known as Operation Rahat and was organized in 2013. The operation was actually carried out by Indian Air Force after the Uttarakhand flood. It involved 2,140 sorties lifting 20,000 people and dropping 3,82,400 kilograms of equipment and relief materia

The whole of this force is raised generally from the districts occupied by it. The Bengal Presidency was not garrisoned wholly by the regular army.

By the middle of the 19th Century the armies of the Native States looked formidable on paper, for they were said to number altogether about 380,000 men, of whom 69,000 were cavalry and 11,000 artillery, with some 4,000 guns.

These figures were very deceptive. A small portion only of these so-called armies had any military organization.

The Battle of Saragarhi is yet another example of valor of Indian Army. Fought in 1897 on 12th of September, it was a battle fought between 21 Sikh soldiers against 10,000 Afghan soldiers. Afghans lost 180 soldiers while all 21 Sikhs died on battlefield. It was one of the greatest last stands in history

They consisted for the most part of men who could hardly be called soldiers. The majority of them are maintained for purposes of display, without the least idea that they can ever be used for fighting.

The so-called array includes multitudes of the armed retainers of the chiefs and nobles, and nearly the whole of the men whom we should class as police.

The highest military honor in India is the Param Veer Chakra. 21 Indian soldiers have received Param Veer Chakra till date among which 14 received the award posthumously.

There were only two cases in which it seemed possible that the armies of the Native States might become causes of anxiety to the Government.

Indian Royal Army was the largest volunteering army by end of WWII with 2.5 million volunteers serving in naval, air force and infantry regiments posted in Europe, Asia and Africa. Of the total volunteers, 36,000 lost their lives, 34,354 were wounded and 67,340 were captured as prisoners.

The first was the army of Gwalior. Among all the armies of the Native States this was the most completely organized.

The only war lost by Indian Army was in 1962 when India fought China. The loss was not a result of negligence on part of the Indian Army. It was rather the defense minister and PM who made mistakes in an attempt to micromanage the war using political routes. Complete freedom of operational control was not given to Indian Army and they were even denied of air support. A top ranking Chinese general eventually admitted that if there was anything that the Indian Army did not lack then it was determination and courage.

It consisted of about 11,000 men, of whom about 6,000 are cavalry, all fairly drilled and disciplined, with several fully equipped batteries of artillery.