The Indian soil has seen war since the beginning of time, and that hasn’t changed after the independence in 1947. However, protecting the borders on either front have been the brave children of the motherland we call ‘Bharat Mata’. One such son of the homeland was the Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat, who laid down his life for his country.
During the last phase of the Indo-China war in 1962, the Indian Army was fighting with all its might at the North-East Frontier Agency (Nefa). Unfortunately, they were faced with an acute shortage of manpower and ammunition. This resulted in Jaswant Singh Rawant’s battalion facing repeated assaults by the Chinese troops on November 17, 1962. Nonetheless, what the soldier did was encrypted in the soul of the Indian military’s history.
Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat single-handedly fought the Chinese Troops for 72 hours
