Pran Nath Thapar
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General Pran Nath Thapar was the fourth Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army. The Sino-Indian War was fought during his term, in which the Indian Army fared poorly. Thapar resigned during the last s
General Pran Nath Thapar
Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri
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General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri was an Indian army general who served as the 5th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949.
Pran Nath Thapar
…War was fought during his term, in which the Indian Army fared poorly. Thapar resigned during the last stages of the war, handing charge to Lt. Gen. J. N. Chaudhuri. Thapar was born at Ahmedabad into a prominent Punjabi Khatri family. He was the youngest son of Diwan Bahadur Kunj Behari Thapar of Lahore. His elder…
General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri
Major General Chaudhuri addressing crowd at Fateh Maidan after integration of Hyderabad in 1948 with Jawaharlal Nehru sitting on the parapet
Maj Gen Syed Ahmed El Edroos (right) offers his surrender of the Hyderabad State Forces to Maj Gen Chaudhuri at Secunderabad.
(From left to right): Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Nizam VII and Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri after Hyderabad's accession to India