{"id":215671,"date":"2022-11-24T19:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=215671"},"modified":"2022-12-08T12:06:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T06:36:27","slug":"400th-birth-anniversary-of-assams-war-hero-lachit-borphukan-to-be-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/400th-birth-anniversary-of-assams-war-hero-lachit-borphukan-to-be-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"400th birth anniversary of Assam\u2019s war hero Lachit Borphukan to be celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c400th birth anniversary of Assam\u2019s war hero Lachit Borphukan to be celebrated\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 23rd November.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A three-day celebration of the 400th birth anniversary of the legendary Assamese general and folk hero Lachit Borphukan began in New Delhi on November 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Who was \u200b\u200bLachit Borphukan?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200b\u200bLachit Borphukan was a commander in the erstwhile Ahom kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is known for his leadership in the 1671 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/british-era-bungalow-is-home-to-brahmaputra-heritage-centre\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Battle of Saraighat <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that thwarted an attempt by Mughal forces to capture Assam.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The battle of Saraighat was fought on the banks of the Brahmaputra in Guwahati.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He defeated the Mughal Army by brilliant uses of the terrain, guerrilla tactics, clever diplomatic negotiations to buy time, military intelligence and by exploiting the sole weakness of the Mughal forces\u2014its navy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of \u200b\u200bLachit Borphukan?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lachit Divas has been celebrated on November 24, his birth anniversary in Assam since the 1930s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was the inspiration behind strengthening India\u2019s naval force and revitalizing inland water transport and creating infrastructure associated with it due to his great naval strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lachit Borphukan gold medal is awarded to the best cadet from the National Defence Academy. The medal was instituted in 1999 to inspire defence personnel to emulate Borphukan\u2019s heroism and sacrifices.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201c400th birth anniversary of Assam\u2019s war hero Lachit Borphukan to be celebrated\u201d published in The Hindu on 23rd November. What is the News? A three-day celebration of the 400th birth anniversary of the legendary Assamese general and folk hero Lachit Borphukan began in New Delhi on November&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/400th-birth-anniversary-of-assams-war-hero-lachit-borphukan-to-be-celebrated\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">400th birth anniversary of Assam\u2019s war hero Lachit Borphukan to be celebrated<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,11210,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-215671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-personalities-in-news","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700772130,"cached_date":1700887446},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}