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Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair, AC, KC (popularly known as "NJ") was a highly decorated officer of the Indian Army. On 20 December 1993, while heading an advance party of the battalion, his convoy was ambushed by Naga rebels. Nair personally led the attack to break the ambush and sacrificed his life defending his men.
The Nair Brigade was the army of the erstwhile kingdom of Travancore in India. Nairs were a warrior community of the region. [3] [4] The personal bodyguard of the king Marthanda Varma (1706–1758) was also called Thiruvithamkoor Nair Pattalam (Travancore Nair Army). The Travancore army was officially referred as the Travancore Nair Brigade in ...
A Sainik School, Kazhakootam alumnus, Lt Gen Nair joined the 40th Course of NDA, and was commissioned into 1/11 Gorkha Rifles from Indian Military Academy in 1972. Nair has since held several important positions in the Indian army, including command of the 1/11 Gorkha Rifles during counter insurgency operations in Assam and Manipur, the command of an infantry brigade in the western sector ...
Captain Harshan Radhakrishnan Nair, [2] AC (15 April 1980 – 20 March 2007) was an officer in the Indian Army serving in the elite 2nd Battalion of the Para (Special Forces) also known as "Predators". He was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, the country's highest peacetime gallantry award in 2008.
Following hostilities between the Nair and the British in 1809, the British limited Nair participation in the Indian Army. After India's independence, the Nair Brigade of the Travancore State Force was merged into the Indian Army and became a part of the 9th Battalion, Madras Regiment, the oldest battalion in the Indian Army.
Lieutenant General Pradeep Chandran Nair PVSM, AVSM, YSM is a retired general officer of the Indian Army. He last served as the 21st Director General of Assam Rifles . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
It was formerly known as the Nair Brigade (Nair Pattalam/"Nair Army"). This militia was raised in 1704 at Padmanabhapuram as body guards for the Maharajah of Travancore, and saw action in the Battle of Colachel by defeating the Dutch forces. The army was made up of soldiers from Nair warrior clans, however after the 1940s, non-Nairs were ...
Lieutenant General Sadhna Saxena Nair VSM is a serving general officer in the Indian Army. [1] She currently serves as the Director General Medical Services (Army), the first woman to be appointed to the position. [2] [3] She is the seventh woman officer to be promoted to three-star rank in the Indian Armed Forces.