{"id":26629,"date":"2024-09-17T08:44:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T03:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26629"},"modified":"2025-04-08T03:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:03:39","slug":"battle-of-saragarhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/battle-of-saragarhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Saragarhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Battle of Saragarhi:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was fought on 12 September 1897, in the then <strong>North-West Frontier Province of British India<\/strong>, which was concentrated on <strong>Saragarhi post.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On this day only 21 soldiers <strong>from the 36th Sikh<\/strong> (now 4 Sikh) led by <strong>Havildar Ishar Singh<\/strong> and a non-combatant <strong>called Daad<\/strong> fought against over 8,000 Afridi and Orakzai tribal militants.<\/li>\n<li>It is considered one of the finest last stands in the military history of the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>How are the slain soldiers remembered?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2017, the Punjab government decided to observe <strong>Saragarhi Day on September 12<\/strong> as a holiday.<\/li>\n<li>Even today the <strong>Khyber Scouts regiment<\/strong> of the Pakistani army mounts a guard and salutes the Saragarhi memorial close to <strong>Fort Lockhart.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The British, who regained control over the fort after a few days, used burnt bricks of Saragarhi to <strong>build an obelisk<\/strong> for the martyrs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Importance of Saragarhi Post for Britishers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Saragarhi was a post, a key landmark between the two forts, <strong>Lockhart and Gulistan<\/strong>, which were originally built by <strong>Ranjit Singh<\/strong> of Punjab during his western expedition.<\/li>\n<li>It was a critical post for the British, helping to monitor any aggressive moves by the Afghans.<\/li>\n<li>Saragarhi helped to link up the two important forts which housed a large number of British troops in the rugged terrain of NWFP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> Where is the Khyber Pass located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> It is a mountain pass in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, on the border with Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. The pass connects Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, with Peshawar, Pakistan.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-history\/september-12-saragarhi-day-9563646\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Why September 12 is observed as Saragarhi Day<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle of Saragarhi was fought on 12 September 1897, in the then North-West Frontier Province of British India, which was concentrated on Saragarhi post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}