Revisiting India’s military heritage

There is very little awareness about the history of our armed forces among the public in India. Our younger generation, that has been feed mostly on western movies on war, tends to form an impression that heroic feats of war are more or less a western trait. This starkly contrasts the facts because the Indian Armed Forces have an extremely rich legacy of having had been among the finest fighting forces in the world right from their origins dating back to the 18th Century. There are so many stories to tell, like the Battle of Adyar. This battle led to the creation of the Indian army. The Madras Army was the first that the British created in India. Not many people remember these facts. 

Apart from the information and stories of valour on the website, the foundation will also conduct various awareness programmes across major cities in the country to educate the people about the nation’s military history and heritage. The programmes will be in the nature of exhibitions, films, seminars and talks. Glory Foundation is planning battle re-enactments or military tattoos, which used to take place in Madras now Chennai before Independence. The British arranged a military tattoo of the Siege of Madras in 1946. We want to bring those enactments back.