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Usman is buried in the Okhla cemetery<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pinaki Biswas|title=Rabindranath Hatya Shorojantra (Bengali)|publisher=Lalmati Prakashan|year=2021|isbn=978-81-953129-3-1|location=Kolkata|pages=95}}</ref> near the [[Jamia Millia Islamia]] campus in [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mod.nic.in/samachar/july15-06/h3.htm |title=Brig Usman : A Legend Remembered |access-date=2012-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220160426/http://mod.nic.in/samachar/july15-06/h3.htm |archive-date=2012-02-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Film directors Upender Sood and Ranjan Kumar Singh produced a film on Brigadier Usman's life.<ref name="Hindu 2004" /><ref name=Rediff> | Usman is buried in the Okhla cemetery<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pinaki Biswas|title=Rabindranath Hatya Shorojantra (Bengali)|publisher=Lalmati Prakashan|year=2021|isbn=978-81-953129-3-1|location=Kolkata|pages=95}}</ref> near the [[Jamia Millia Islamia]] campus in [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mod.nic.in/samachar/july15-06/h3.htm |title=Brig Usman : A Legend Remembered |access-date=2012-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220160426/http://mod.nic.in/samachar/july15-06/h3.htm |archive-date=2012-02-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Film directors Upender Sood and Ranjan Kumar Singh produced a film on Brigadier Usman's life.<ref name="Hindu 2004" /><ref name=Rediff> | ||
{{Cite web |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/jul/16media.htm |title=Remembering the Lion of Naushera |website=Rediff On The Net |date=1997 |access-date=27 August | {{Cite web |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/jul/16media.htm |title=Remembering the Lion of Naushera |website=Rediff On The Net |date=1997 |access-date=27 August 2018}} | ||
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In 2020, photos of the grave's defaced headstone were widely circulated and triggered outrage on social media. This led several Army veterans to condemn the dishonour done to his memory, ultimately leading the Army to initiate the restoration of the vandalised grave.<ref>{{cite web |title=Army to restore defaced Jamia grave of war hero |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/army-to-restore-defaced-jamia-grave-of-war-hero/cid/1802136 |website=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]] |publisher=[[Anandabazar Patrika]] |access-date=31 December | In 2020, photos of the grave's defaced headstone were widely circulated and triggered outrage on social media. This led several Army veterans to condemn the dishonour done to his memory, ultimately leading the Army to initiate the restoration of the vandalised grave.<ref>{{cite web |title=Army to restore defaced Jamia grave of war hero |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/army-to-restore-defaced-jamia-grave-of-war-hero/cid/1802136 |website=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]] |publisher=[[Anandabazar Patrika]] |access-date=31 December 2020}}</ref> | ||
His birth centenary was celebrated in 2012 by the Indian Army at Jhangar, [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref name="BS"/> A Paramotor Expedition was organized by Gorkha Training Centre in the memory of Brigadier Usman.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130103142538/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-01/varanasi/32494345_1_expedition-paratroopers-indo-pak-war Paramotor expedition to mark birth centenary of Brigadier Mohammad Usman], The Times of India, 1 July 2012.</ref> | His birth centenary was celebrated in 2012 by the Indian Army at Jhangar, [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref name="BS"/> A Paramotor Expedition was organized by Gorkha Training Centre in the memory of Brigadier Usman.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130103142538/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-01/varanasi/32494345_1_expedition-paratroopers-indo-pak-war Paramotor expedition to mark birth centenary of Brigadier Mohammad Usman], The Times of India, 1 July 2012.</ref> | ||
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== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
* {{citation |last=Singh |first=V. K. |title=Leadership in the Indian Army: Biographies of Twelve Soldiers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJDsk_g6tXUC&pg=PA160 |year=2005 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-0-7619-3322-9 |pages=160– |ref={{sfnref|V. K. Singh, Leadership in the Indian Army| | * {{citation |last=Singh |first=V. K. |title=Leadership in the Indian Army: Biographies of Twelve Soldiers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJDsk_g6tXUC&pg=PA160 |year=2005 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-0-7619-3322-9 |pages=160– |ref={{sfnref|V. K. Singh, Leadership in the Indian Army|2005}}}} | ||
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