Image: Mountbatten inspects Indian troops at Singapore 1945

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Description: The 17th Dogra Regiment and its predecessor units were recruited entirely of Dogra Rajputs - high caste Hindus descended from the original Aryan invaders of India. They inhabited the foothills of the Himalayas between the Jhelum and Sutlej rivers in the Punjab. They had a long tradition of soldiering and fought for the British from the 1860s onwards. This included service in Malaya and Burma during World War Two. In 1947 the Dogra Regiment was allocated to India after independence and partition.
Title: Mountbatten inspects Indian troops at Singapore 1945
Credit: National Army Museum
Author: From a collection of 233 official photographs collected by Captain Roy Wiltshire in his capacity as Editor of the Indian Army Review.
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Indian Army during World War II

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