The nation’s oldest assume tank, the United Service Institution of India (USI), is organising the primary Indian Military Heritage Festival (IMHF) later this month, which, it mentioned seeks to handle the hole within the “national discourse and cultural calendar.”

“Its [IMHF] activities will be driven towards enhancing our understanding of the country’s rich military heritage and traditions; contemporary security and strategy concerns; and the push to achieve self-reliance in military capability through the Atmanirbhar Bharat programmes of the Government of India,” the USI mentioned in an announcement on Monday. It is scheduled to be held on October 21 and 22.

“Despite having a long and glorious military history and strategic culture going back to many centuries, the general public is largely unaware of the different facets of India’s military history, heritage, and security concerns,” the assertion mentioned. Through knowledgeable classes, starting from discussions on indigenous historic data programs, India and the world wars, post-Independence challenges and understandings of conflict and battle, analysing conflict via the lens of fiction and media, the IMHF will certainly be considered one of its variety, catering to audiences from all walks of life, it acknowledged.

Despite a new-found curiosity in army historical past amongst a broad cross part of society in India at this time, there’s a “huge deficit” in data about Indian army programs, customs and historical past, the USI mentioned, and the pageant “seeks to bridge these gaps in our understanding of the interplay between war, the armed forces and society.”

Project Udbhav

Recently, below Project Udbhav, the Army has taken up an effort to rediscover the “profound Indic heritage of statecraft and strategic thoughts” derived from historic Indian texts of “statecraft, warcraft, diplomacy and grand strategy” in collaboration with the USI and the pageant is a part of that effort. The Army mentioned Project Udbhav “endeavours to explore India’s rich historical narratives in the realms of statecraft and strategic thoughts. It focuses on a broad spectrum, including indigenous military systems, historical texts, regional texts and kingdoms, thematic studies, and intricate Kautilya studies.”

The Army has acknowledged that consistent with this, the USI is conducting the IMHF with the goal to acquaint “future thought leaders” with the dynamics of complete nationwide safety with particular emphasis on “India’s strategic culture, military heritage, education, modernisation of security forces and Atmanirbhar Bharat.”

The assertion mentioned that over the course of two days, via panel classes, discussions will cater to how we perceive our army historical past, up to date safety and strategic considerations, social and welfare points being confronted by the armed forces, analysing the position of Atmanirbhar Bharat within the defence sector, India’s tradition of gallantry, and the way “we can develop an indigenous strategic vocabulary rooted in our culture and history, moving into the future.”

As a part of the occasion, an exhibition to focus on and have a good time choose milestones and achievements within the nation’s “long and illustrious” army historical past is being organised in collaboration with the National Museum, the assertion added.