This book is an attempt to make our present generation aware of those great people, who sacrificed their lives to protect our Motherland, thereby facilitated us to breathe in 
the free environment. This book is 
an account to their acts of valour 
and places associated with them. With a firm view that every Indian 
is indebted to contributions of all such warriors, freedom fighters, revolutionaries whose debts cannot be repaid by any means, the author believes that we can lessen the debts by visiting those sacred places, by meeting their families and also by passing these virtues to our younger generation.
More than a research in history, this book is a result of the author’s aspirations to visit historical places of our illustrious country. Through this book, the author has connected these shrines of martyrdom with history and importance in the present times. This book consist details of about 50 such places associated with the martyrs and patriots. The book is intended to act as a bridge which may help our older generation connect with the younger generation.

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Contents

Foreword—7

PREFACE—11

Acknowledgements—15

1. First Freedom Struggle of 1857—19

2. HUSSAINIWALA—43

3. KALA PANI: CELLULAR JAIL—68

4. JALLIANWALA BAGH AND WAGAH BORDER—80

5. Kashmir And 1947-48 War Of India-Pakistan—95

6. 1962 INDO-CHINA WAR—102

7. 1965 INDO-PAK WAR—115

8. INDO-PAK WAR OF 1971—127

9. SIACHEN: PRIDE of our nation—145

10. Kargil war, 1999—155

11. References—168

12. List of Param Veer Chakra awardes—171

13. LIST OF WAR MEMORIALS in INDIA—176

Born on September 4, 1975 in Delhi, Rishi Raj is working as Joint General Manager in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, a Public Sector Undertaking of the Government of India. In the year 1994, the tour of India started with the appointment in Indian Railways. Till now he has visited major tourist places of all 36 States/Union Territories of the country and has visited ten countries of Asia, Australia and Europe globally. From the religious point of view, he has also completed the journey of Kailash Mansarovar, Twelve Jyotirlingas and Char Dham.

Rishi Raj made his writing debut in the year 2012 with 'Kailash Darshan - Kuch Yaadein, Kuch Baatein' based on his experiences of visiting Kailash Mansarovar. In the year 2015, his book 'Discovering Incredible India' and then in the year 2017 'Patriotic Pilgrimage of Patriotism' was published and then in the year 2019, the book "Journey of an Indian to Japan" came out on the experience of the days spent in Japan. All these books were honored with the Rahul Sankrityayan Award by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India.

"50 Great Freedom Fighters" was released in December 2019. In the year 2022, his book dedicated to the martyrs of the Kargil war, "Kargil-Ek Yatri ki Zubaani" has come out, written by him after visiting the Kargil battlefield twice and meeting the families of the soldiers who were martyred in the Kargil war. Which makes this book different from other books written on the subject of Kargil.

In the year 2019, the author adopted the medium of “Chitravali” to introduce children to the historical events of national importance in a new way, in this series, first of all, on the completion of 100 years of the Jallianwala Bagh incident, “Listen children of Jallianwala Bagh Story” and then in the year 2022 also wrote seven paintings depicting the life story of the warriors of Kargil war. These picture books have been greatly appreciated in schools and now all these picture books are being published in English and Gujarati as well.

Apart from this, Rishi Raj has so far produced about 125 short films related to patriotism and major tourist and historical places of India, which are available on his YouTube channel Exploring India with Rishi.

Contact

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