3. INDIAN ARMY
• INDIAN ARMY
• LARGEST COMPONENT OF INDIAN ARMED FORCES
• PRESIDENT (SUPREME COMMANDER)
4. MARATHA LIGHT INFANTRY
• ONE OF THE OLDEST INFANTRY REGIMENTS
OF INDIAN ARMY.
• IT WAS RAISED OUT OF BOMBAY SEPOY.
• WE CAN TRACE THERE ORIGIN BACK TO 1768.
5. • THE SOLDIERS OF MARATHA LIGHT INFANTRY
ARE MOSTLY RECRUITED FROM MARATHA
EMPIRE/MARATHA COMMUNITY.
• THE MEN WERE MOSTLY DRAWN FROM ALL
OVER THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND
SOME MARATHI SPEAKING AREAS OF
KARNATAKA INCLUIDING COORG.
6. • THE REGIMENTAL CENTRE HAS BEEN IN
BELGAUM , KARNATAKA SINCE 1922.
7. BATTLE CRY / WAR CRY / MOTTO /NICKNAME
• BOLA SHRI CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ KI JAI
• ( SAY VICTORY TO KING SHIVAJI)
• DUTY,HONOUR,VICTORY
8. MORE TO KNOW ABOUT MAHARATHA
LIGHT INFANTARY
• FIRST LIGHT INFANTRY BATTALION ON INDIAN
ARMY.
• FIRST BATTALION TO PARTICIPATE IN WORLD
WAR 2.
• THE REGIMENT GROW TO ITS PRESENT
STRENGHT OF 18 BATTALIONS AND TWO
TERRITORIAL ARMY BATTALIONS.
• ALSO SAW THE CONVERSION OF 21st
BATTALION INTO PARACHUTE REGIMENT (SF).
9. INVOLVEMENT IN WARS BEFORE
INDEPENDENCE
• THIRD ANGLO MYSORE WAR
• BATTLE OF SEEDASEER
• BATTLE OF SERINGAPATAM
• FOURTH ANGLO MYSOSE WAR
• FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WAR
12. ANNEXATION OF HYDRABAD
• HYDRABAD WAS UNDER THE NIZAMS.
• NAME OF THE OPERATION WAS OPERATION
POLO.
• THE OPERATION WAS STARTED ON 13 SEPT
1948 AND ENDED ON 18 SEPT 1948.
13. ANNEXATION OF GOA
• IN INDIA LIBERATION OF GOA.
• IN PORTUGAL INVASION OF GOA.
• THE NAME OF OPERATION WAS OPERATION
VIJAY.
• IT INVOLVED OVER AIR ,SEA, AND LAND
STRIKES FOR 36 HOURS.
• ENDING 451 YEARS RULE OF PORTUGAL.
