THE COURAGE AND POLITICAL AWARENESS OF GARHWALI RAJPUTS AND BRAHMANS
Thursday, December 14, 2017 THE COURAGE AND POLITICAL AWARENESS OF GARHWALI RAJPUTS AND BRAHMANS THE COURAGE AND POLITICAL AWARENESS OF GARHWALI RAJPUTS AND BRAHMANS IT IS A STRANGE FACT OF HISTORY THAT GARHWALI HINDUS REFUSED ORDERS TO OPEN FIRE ON PASHTUN MUSLIM DEMONSTRATORS IN PESHAWAR IN 1930 – PROBABLY A VERY RARE INCIDENT IN BRITISH INDIAN ARMY HISTORY- ONE OF THESE BRAVE GARHWALI WAS ELECTED ON CONGRESS TICKET FROM UNITED PROVINCES IN 1936 ELECTIONS-HERE IN THIS PHOTO A GARHWAL UNIT IN FRANCE-MAJOR A.H AMIN (RETIRED) It is great honour to have Mr Sushil Talwar with us .He is great scholar of Indo Pak military history. I am adding a very useful link directly related to this post received from most respected and dear Sushil Talwar .The story was narrated to me by a great grand uncle in law , at Peshawar in 1930 , who witnessed it. The same story was also narrated by Mr Phillip Mason my grandfathers direct senior in Ministry of Defence at Delhi ...