Brigadier Mohammad Usman (15 July 1912 – 3 July 1948) (also known as Usman Mohomad) was the highest
ranking officer of Indian Army killed in the Indo-Pakistani
War of 1947, who as a Muslim became a "symbol of"
India's "inclusive secularism". At the time of partition of India he
with many other officers declined to move to the Pakistan Army and
continued to serve the Indian Army. He died in July 1948 while fighting the
Pakistani soldiers and militia in Jammu and Kashmir. He
was later awarded the Maha
Vir Chakra
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