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CAPTAIN PRADIP KUMAR GOUR

Maha Vir Chakra

Award / Date of Action Maha Vir Chakra (Posthumous) , 14-12-1971
Service Indian Army
Service Number C-8164
Rank CAPTAIN
Unit/Regiments/Corps 660 AOP SQUADRON, REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY
Son Of NATH PRASHAD GAUR
Mother's Name N/A
Resident Of (Village/District/State/Domicile) New Delhi, Delhi
War/Operation/Battle 1971 Indo-Pak War
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  1. Maha vir chakra (MVC) Awardee: Captain Pradip Kumar Gour, MVC
  2. Operations in Jammu And Kashmir S.N. Prasad. Dr. Dharam Pal (2005). Natraj Publishers And Ministry Of Defence, Government Of India
  3. Darshan Khullar (2017). Themes of Glory: Indian Artillery in War. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. p. 252
  4. Stories of Heroism (PVC & MVC) Winners Dr. B.C.Chakravorty.(1995). Ministry of Defence, Government of India
  5. Portraits of Valour: India’s Highest Gallantry Awards And Their Recipients. S S Gandhi.(2006). The Defence Review Publicatio
  6. 1971 India-Pak War: Victory Flame Reaches Home Of Late Brigadier Kailash Prasad Pandey https://www.businessworld.in/article/1971-India-Pak-war-Victory-Flame-reaches-home-of-Late-Brigadier-Kailash-Prasad-Pande/17-12-2020-354952/
  7. Swarnim Vijay Varsh': Family members of late Maha Vir Chakra awardee felicitated https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/swarnim-vijay-varsh-family-members-of-late-maha-vir-chakra-awardee-felicitated/articleshow/79778011.cms?from=mdr
  8. The India-Pakistan War of 1971: A History. S.N Prasad and U.P. Thapliyal.(2014). Natraj Publishers and Ministry of Defence, New Delhi
  9. The Valiants: The Martyrs of Indo-Pak War 1971. JWO Sharadchandra D Phatak, Puja Shashank Phatak, (2021
  10. The Hero of 1971 War Gnat fighter Aircraft, (Accessed on 07 December 2022), https://defencedirecteducation.com/2018/12/10/gnat-hal-ajeet/
  11. Param Vir: Our Heroes in Battle. Maj Gen Ian Cardozo. (2003). The Lotus Collection, Roli Books Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi,
  12. India Defending Kashmir (Written by Official History of the Jammu & Kashmir Operations) (Accessed on 08 October 2022)
  13. Independence: A Concise History by Lieutenant General Vijay Oberoi, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM (Retd) (Accessed on 08 October 2022) https://usiofindia.org/publication/usi-journal/indias-wars-since-independence-a-concise-history/
  14. Indo-Pak War, 1947-48: The History and its Current Ramifications by Col Jaibans Singh (Accessed on 08 October 2022) http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/indo-pak-war-1947-48-the-history-and-its-currentr

Kashmir 1947: Anatomy of an invasion (Source: WION YouTube)

Indo Pak 1971 War: गोलियों की बौछार और India-Pakistan के कमांडरों ने लिखे पत्र. Vivechna (Source: YouTubeBBC Hindi)

India Pakistan 1971 War: जब पाकिस्तान के AAK Niazi ने Jagjit Singh Aurora के सामने हथियार डाले (BBC)

Gravitas: The story of the 1947 tribal invasion of Kashmir (Source: WION YouTube)

1971 India-Pak war: Victory Flame reaches home of Late Brigadier Kailash Prasad Pande (Source: ANI News)

Watch: Swarnim Vijay Mashaal reaches Late Brig KP Pande’s home; family felicitated (Source: Hindustan Times)

India Pakistan Conflict -1971 (Source: Films Division YouTube)

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