The Battle of Badgam[6][7][8][9][10] was a defensive encounter that took place at Badgam in the Kashmir Valley close to the Srinagar Airport during the initial stages of the First Kashmir War. The skirmishes took place on 3 November 1947 between a company of the Indian Army, aided by Indian Air Force, and a tribal lashkar of Pakistani raiders numbering around 1000, who had apparently occupied Badgam. The battle drew its significance from the success of the solitary company of 4th Battalion, Kumaon Regiment, led by Major Somnath Sharma,[11][12] in halting the momentum of advancing tribal "Lashkars",[2] though being heavily outnumbered. Sharma was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for his actions. The Indian Air Force served as an accompaniment to the army's efforts in the battle, contributing to the majority of the casualties inflicted on the Pakistani lashkars.However the tribal forces would successfully raid badgam and defeat the indian company at badgam and later infiltrate towards shalateng north of srinagar, with another decesive called Battle of Shalateng.[13]
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^ abThe term "lashkar" in this context means a group of a thousand tribals of one ethnicity from North West Frontier Province, armed by Pakistani Army and encouraged to infiltrate and raid Kashmir for booty.
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^Cardozo, Major General Ian (31 December 2003). Param Vir: Our Heroes in Battle. Roli Books Private Limited. ISBN 978-93-5194-029-6. bodies of over 300 tribesmen were counted
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^Sen, Maj Gen L. P. (1969). Slender Was the Thread: Kashmir Confrontation 1947–48. New Delhi: Orient Longman. p. 308. ISBN 0-86131-692-4. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
^Harpreet (3 November 2017). "Maj Somnath Sharma, PVC (P) and The Battle of Badgam". Harpreet's Blog. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
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^Amin, Agha (18 March 2017). The 14 Month Battles for Kashmir: The Longest and Least Read and Known Indo Pak War Fought Over a Vast Area. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-5447-3836-9. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Here they successfully raided and dispersed an Indian infantry company inflicting in the process an extremely heavy loss on the Indians in terms of men killed including the Indian Company commander Major Somnath Sharma18.
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