{"id":149327,"date":"2026-05-19T13:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/?p=149327"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:18:53","slug":"1971nchya-yuddhat-maratha-regiment-ne-bajavaleli-jabardasta-kamgiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/1971nchya-yuddhat-maratha-regiment-ne-bajavaleli-jabardasta-kamgiri\/","title":{"rendered":"1971 \u091a\u094d\u092f\u093e \u092f\u0941\u0926\u094d\u0927\u093e\u0924 \u092e\u0930\u093e\u0920\u093e \u0930\u0947\u091c\u093f\u092e\u0947\u0902\u091f\u0928\u0947 \u092c\u091c\u093e\u0935\u0932\u0947\u0932\u0940 \u091c\u092c\u0930\u0926\u0938\u094d\u0924 \u0915\u093e\u092e\u0917\u093f\u0930\u0940."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-f271cfc9153a64eab428839c3142b398 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:800px; height:450px; max-height:450px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"1971 \u091a\u094d\u092f\u093e \u092f\u0941\u0926\u094d\u0927\u093e\u0924 \u092e\u0930\u093e\u0920\u093e \u0930\u0947\u091c\u093f\u092e\u0947\u0902\u091f\u0928\u0947 \u092c\u091c\u093e\u0935\u0932\u0947\u0932\u0940 \u091c\u092c\u0930\u0926\u0938\u094d\u0924 \u0915\u093e\u092e\u0917\u093f\u0930\u0940.-BRIG HEMANT MAHAJAN\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CZv3bnov5Po?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>During the 1971 war, the Marathas saw action on both fronts. In the Western theatre, eight regular battalions and three Territorial Army battalions of the Maratha Light Infantry were involved. Six regular battalions of the Regiment took part in the Eastern theatre for the liberation of Bangladesh. Some were employed in the battle areas without actual combat; others were engaged in fierce fighting, inflicting and suffering heavy casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel of the Regiment covered themselves with glory in the finest traditions of the regiment and the service, which was recognised with the award of the Mahavir Chakra to Sepoy Pandurang Salunke of 15 Maratha Light Infantry, and 15 Vir Chakras, two Vishist Seva Medals, 20 Sena Medals and 12 \u2018Mentioned-in- Despatches\u2019 to other personnel from the Regiment.<\/p>\n<p>Three battalions of the Regiment were awarded Battle Honours in recognition of the actions they were engaged in during the war: \u201cJamalpur\u201d to the 1st Battalion ( Jangi Paltan); \u201cSuadih\u201d to the 5th Battalion (Royal); and \u201cBurj\u201d to the newly raised 15th Battalion. The 15th Battalion also received the Theatre Honour \u201cPunjab\u201d. And the 22nd Battalion received the Theatre Honour \u201cHilli\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>During the 1971 war, the Marathas saw action on both fronts. In the Western theatre, eight regular battalions and three Territorial Army battalions of the Maratha Light Infantry were involved. Six regular battalions of the Regiment took part in the Eastern theatre for the liberation of Bangladesh. Some were employed in the battle areas without actual combat; others were engaged in fierce fighting, inflicting and suffering heavy casualties. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/1971nchya-yuddhat-maratha-regiment-ne-bajavaleli-jabardasta-kamgiri\/\" title=\"1971 \u091a\u094d\u092f\u093e \u092f\u0941\u0926\u094d\u0927\u093e\u0924 \u092e\u0930\u093e\u0920\u093e \u0930\u0947\u091c\u093f\u092e\u0947\u0902\u091f\u0928\u0947 \u092c\u091c\u093e\u0935\u0932\u0947\u0932\u0940 \u091c\u092c\u0930\u0926\u0938\u094d\u0924 \u0915\u093e\u092e\u0917\u093f\u0930\u0940.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-articles.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[478],"series":[],"ppma_author":[37],"class_list":["post-149327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-videos","tag-c-brigadier-hemand-mahajan-retd"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":37,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sachingadkari","display_name":"sachingadkari","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d75c60f5c41d93918ce46f6e6922dd593f2ea83da085021b9d41660e95e86e3e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149419,"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149327\/revisions\/149419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149327"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=149327"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathisrushti.in\/prime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=149327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}