Assam Rifles is India’s oldest paramilitary force, which was set up as ‘Cachar Levy’ in 1835 by the British, to defend their commercial interests flowing from the tea gardens in India’s North East. Since then, its role and sphere of operations have undergone a sea change. In this episode of Simply Nitin, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale tracks the journey of what, in the purest definition of the term, is India’s only paramilitary force.
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