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Uncle Lawrence in the 1946 Naval Mutiny
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... certificate. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the British had to expand the Royal Indian Navy, mainly because of the impending Japanese threat to British colonies in South East Asia. Also, ... Wednesday, 26 March 2014 -
INS Valsura in the 1965 War
Category: Stories/The Unforgettable
B C Chatterjee was born in 1920, joined the Indian Navy, received the Ati Vishist Seva Medal, and retired from the Navy in 1972. After this, he joined M/s Standard Batteries Ltd., where he was responsible ... Wednesday, 15 May 2013 -
My Memories of Lyallpur
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
Jatinder Sethi was born in Lyallpur, now Faislabad, in pre-Independence India. He finished his M.A. (English) from Delhi University in 1956, and went off to London to study Advertising in 1958. He passed ... Thursday, 13 September 2012 -
An Indian Naval Officer Remembers
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... & Telecommunication Engineers and has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management. A pioneer submariner, he retired from the Indian Navy in 1983, after which he worked for Mazagon Dock Limited, ... Tuesday, 27 March 2012 -
India’s First Commercial Passenger Train Journey
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... R N., Commander-in-Chief Indian Navy; also immediately surrounded by the Honorable Messers. Bell and Blane, Members of Council; Sir Charles Jackson, Puisne Judge H. M. Supreme Court; Colonel F. P. Lester; ... Friday, 16 March 2012 -
Prosperity Returns – Partition Problems Overcome
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... was also reluctant. But, in the end, it was a yes, with support from my older brother, working in the Indian Navy as an engineer, who sent his yes by telegram. After working for 20 months in the Railways, ... Wednesday, 14 March 2012 -
Our Struggle to Recover from India’s Partition
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... control of all family affairs. My older brother, S L Bhatla, had joined school in Kahnour, and passed his Matriculation examination in 1948. He joined Indian Navy in 1948 as a boy cadet when he was 15 ... Sunday, 11 March 2012 -
Early Years in Mysore
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... students and teachers all went on a strike. To crown it all, seamen and officers of the Indian navy virtually mutinied. Sardar Patel (who later became India's Home Minister) had to fly down from Delhi ... Saturday, 22 January 2011 -
An American Boyhood in British India
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... mission-owned beach "bungalows" there standing bravely behind low thorn-infested sand dunes. Far to the south, on the horizon, was a Royal Indian Navy gunnery range where the ordnance boomed away on many ... Wednesday, 17 December 2008