Bharat Rakshak

Is the quality of these two flag books the same? Many cheap and unresearched pieces of . . . non-scholarship . . . have come out on this topic and few of them are any good at all, just pieces of patriotic . . . fluff.

And I, too, cannot follow the comparison with our medals book.

New Book Forgive, please, the shameless capitalism. Edward S. Haynes and Rana T. S. Chhina, Medals and Decorations of Independent India ([New Delhi]; Manohar, 2008; ISBN 978-81-7304-719-0; 272 pp.; Rs. 2750 + p&p) See: http://www.manoharbooks.com/BookDetails.asp?bookid=75687&Page=1&subj...

The end of an era: Victoria Cross winner Umrao Singh dead NEW DELHI, NOV 21 (PTI) Subedar Major and honorary Captain Umrao Singh, last of the surviving Victoria Cross winners in the Indian Army, died at the Army Research and Referral hospital here today after a prolonged illness. Singh, 85, of Jhajj...

As if you really want to see what this dubious work of both policy and art looks like, here is the Op Parakram Medal (a tailors' copy, as the real ones are probably years away, but the design is 100% correct). Setting aside the likely confusion between this thing and the Wound Medal, inexplicably re...

Very classy ad - shabash, Subash!

The following has just been published in the HT, Chandigarh edition. What does it bode for those of us who collect and study Indian awards? Is there cause for concern?! ================= Hindustan Times , Chandigarh edition, 20 April 2005: Medals won overseas, lost at home Man Aman Singh Chhina Chan...

For a more focused discussion of Indian (and other South Asian) medals and decorations, both before and after 1947, you may wish to drop in at the sibling groups of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SAGongs/ and more a recent venue, http://sagongs.ipbhost.com/ No effort here to compete with Bharat Raks...

And what in the world does the Jai Stambh at Chitor have to do with Kargil? One of the more unfortunate post-1947 medals.

Both ribbons are "correct", as deviance in manufacturing has resulted in both. It is all up to the military tailors to improvise. Ed Haynes Originally posted by Priyank: Here's a nice website from BR's military links that is relevant to this thread - http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/ind...