Krishnaswami Sundarji

Krishnaswami Sundarji , PVSM ( Hindi : कृष्णास्वामी सुंदरजी ; Bangla : কৃষ্ণস্বামী সুন্দরজী ; Tamil : ஜெனரல் கிருஷ்ணசாமி சுந்தர்ஜி ; born April 30, 1928 in Chengelpet, South India, today: Tamil Nadu ; † February 8, 1999 in New Delhi ) was an Indian general who, among other things, was Chief of Staff of the Army of the Armed Forces between 1986 and 1988 .

Life

After attending Madras Christian College in 1945, Sundarji joined the British Indian Army of the Crown Colony of British India and was transferred to the Mahar Infantry Regiment in the North West Frontier in 1946 . After India gained independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947, he was accepted into the Indian Army and was a graduate of the Defense Services Staff College in Wellington in 1959 . After various posts as an officer and staff officer, in the 1960s he was a member of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces contingent in the Congo (ONUC) and head of the UN command there in the province of Katanga . After his return to India, he became the commander of an infantry battalion in 1963 and as such took part in the Second Indo-Pakistani War in 1965 . After he was an instructor himself, he completed a general staff course at the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) of the US Army in Fort Leavenworth .

After Sundarji graduated from the National Defense College in New Delhi in 1971 , he was promoted to brigadier general and chief of staff of an army corps during the Bangladesh war , which led to the emergence of the former Pakistani province of East Pakistan into the independent state of Bangladesh . In 1976 he was promoted to major general and was the first infantry officer to take over the post of commander of the 1st Panzer Division. He then became a member of the Army Reform Commission in 1979 and, as Lieutenant General, initially between 1981 and 1982, Deputy Chief of the Army Staff, and then Commanding General of the XXXIII. Corps. As the successor to Lieutenant General Srinivas Kumar Sinha , he took over the post of Commander-in-Chief of Army Command West in Chandimandir on June 1, 1983, and retained this position until February 13, 1985, when Lieutenant General Hriday Kaul succeeded him. In this position he planned Operation Blue Star , the attack by Indian forces on the Sikh sanctuary Harmandir Sahib , the so-called Golden Temple, in June 1984. He then became Vice Chief of Staff in 1985 and remained in this position until 1986 .

Most recently Sundarji was promoted to general on February 1, 1986, replacing General Arun Shridhar Vaidya as Chief of Staff of the Army of the Armed Forces . He held this office until May 31, 1988 and was then replaced by General Vishwa Nath Sharma . After retiring from active military service, he took up postgraduate studies in defense studies at the University of Madras , which he completed with a master's degree. In 1993 he published the novel Blind Men of Hindoostan - Indo-Pak nuclear war , which describes a fictional nuclear war between India and Pakistan.

publication

• Blind Men of Hindoostan - Indo-Pak nuclear war , 1993

Web link

• Obituary: General Krishnaswami Sundarji . In: The Independent of February 10, 1999