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This is a list of serving generals of the Indian Army. The Army’s senior leadership has almost 90 Lieutenant Generals, 300 Major Generals and 1,200 Brigadiers in its 43,000-strong officer cadre. The Army’s senior leadership has almost 90 Lieutenant Generals, 300 Major Generals and 1,200 Brigadiers in its 43,000-strong officer cadre.
Ultimately, Cariappa was chosen to succeed Bucher, which he did on 15 January 1949, with the substantive rank of a four-star general - which thus made him the first Indian-origin general and first native chief of the Indian Army; the day of his appointment has been commemorated annually ever since as Army Day. [19]
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Major general is a two-star general officer rank in the Indian Army. It is the third-highest active rank in the Indian Army. A major general ranks above the one-star rank of brigadier and below the three-star rank of lieutenant general. The equivalent rank in the Indian Navy is rear admiral and in the Indian Air Force is air vice marshal.
Later became first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army. Major General Pran Nath Thapar: 1st Punjab Regiment: December 1947 February 1948 [5] Officiating Chief of the General Staff. Later served as Chief of the Army Staff. Major General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri OBE: 7th Light Cavalry: February 1948 May 1948 [6] Officiating.
It is the brainchild of General Krishnaswamy Sundarji (28 April 1930 – 8 February 1999), who was the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1986 to 1988. During the late 70s, as part of Indian Army modernisation, there was an urgent need to re-calibrate the Indian Mechanised Forces, which led to the forming of Mechanised Infantry units ...
General is a four-star general officer rank in the Indian Army. It is the highest active rank in the Indian Army. It is the highest active rank in the Indian Army. General ranks above the three-star rank of lieutenant general and below the five-star rank of field marshal , which is largely a war-time or ceremonial rank.
British Indian Army generals (2 C, 268 P) C. Chiefs of Army Staff (India) ... Pages in category "Indian generals" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...