1947 : The Battle of Badgam and Shalateng – Colonel Ajay Kumar Raina and Shiv Kunal Verma

Description

On 27 October 1947, Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar as Pakistani forces poured into Jammu and Kashmir. Days later, the Battle of Shalateng became the first deliberate Indian offensive in the Kashmir Valley. This book tells the story of those first, decisive weeks.

Drawing on archives, official correspondence and first-hand accounts, Colonel Ajay Kumar Raina, SM — a decorated officer and military historian — and Shiv Kunal Verma, filmmaker and military historian and author of 1962: The War That Wasn’t and 1965: A Western Sunrise also examine the lingering British influence of the time, and how the circumstances of Kashmir’s accession lie at the heart of the dispute today.