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Desert Sentries
Desert Sentries (India)
By Patricio Estay
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The training of new recruits at the BSF base in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. At the end of the training, which lasts one year, the new soldiers, aged between 19 and 22, will be assigned to different regiments along the Indian border: Pakistan, Punjab, Kashmir, Bihar, Assam, Nagaland. . . . All of the religions in India are represented in the BSF: Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs (the young man with the turban on the photos), Christians.