Cite
MLA
“Battle of Shalateng.” Hindu History, 2026, https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/battle-of-shalateng-1947/. Accessed .
APA
Hindu History. (2026). Battle of Shalateng. Retrieved , from https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/battle-of-shalateng-1947/
The raiders massed before Srinagar were routed and fled back up the valley; Baramulla was retaken on 8 November and Uri on 13 November.
01Srinagar under threat
On 27 October 1947 the 1st Sikh was flown into Srinagar; its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Dewan Ranjit Rai, was killed near Baramulla that day. On 3 November Major Somnath Sharma’s company held off a large force at Badgam until the airfield was secure. More troops came in by air, and 161 Brigade under Brigadier L. P. Sen took charge. By early November the lashkars, fresh from plundering Baramulla, were dug in at Shalateng, a few miles from the city on the Baramulla road.
02The armoured cars
Sen planned to pin the raiders from the front with the 1st Sikh and the Kumaon battalions and to send armoured cars of the 7th Light Cavalry round behind them. On the morning of 7 November the cars came in on the raiders’ rear while the infantry attacked and aircraft of the Royal Indian Air Force struck from above. Caught on open ground, the lashkar broke and fled west along the road, leaving its dead and much of its loot. The pursuit reached Baramulla the next day.
Shalateng ended the threat to Srinagar and turned the war in the valley from defence to pursuit.
