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| honorific_prefix = [[Lieutenant General]]
|name= Adi Meherji Sethna
| honorific_suffix =<small>[[Param Vishisht Seva Medal|PVSM]], [[Ati Vishisht Seva Medal|AVSM]]</small>
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|death_date= 17 October 2006
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'''[[Lieutenant General]]''' '''Adi Meherji Sethna''', [[Param Vishisht Seva Medal|PVSM]], [[Ati Vishisht Seva Medal|AVSM]] was an [[Indian Army]] General who served as the [[Vice Chief of the Army Staff (India)|Vice Chief of Army Staff]].<ref name="unescoparzor1">{{cite web|url=http://www.unescoparzor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57&Itemid=55&phpMyAdmin=sajdmQ8uXCI6iyWREItGtdZWr-2 |title=Lt.Gen A.M Sethna |publisher=Unescoparzor.com |access-date=2012-03-28}}</ref>

After graduating from [[The Doon School]] and [[Allahabad University]] he was commissioned into the Indian Army and posted to the [[6th Rajputana Rifles]] on 21 May 1944.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://parsi-times.com/2016/08/tribute-parsi-bravehearts/|title = A Tribute to Parsi Bravehearts|date = 15 August 2016}}</ref><ref>October 1945 Indian Army List</ref> He began his military career fighting in Malaya during the [[Second World War]]. 

He was one of the few Indians to attend both the [[Royal College of Defence Studies]] and the [[Staff College, Camberley|Camberly Staff College]] in [[England]].<ref name="unescoparzor1"/> He was [[Aide-de-camp|ADC]] to the second [[Governor-General of India]] [[C. Rajagopalachari]] as well as Dr. [[Rajendra Prasad]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publicationsdivision.nic.in/b_title_wise.asp |title=Publications Division's Title Index |publisher=Publicationsdivision.nic.in |date=2012-03-02 |access-date=2012-03-28}}</ref><ref>https://openlibrary.org/search?subject_facet=Biography&publisher_facet=Publications+Division%2C+Ministry+of+Information+and+Broadcasting%2C+Govt.+of+India {{fv|date=November 2018}}</ref>

He also played an active role in the strategy for the Bangladesh campaign and was awarded India's third highest civilian award, the [[Padma Bhushan]].<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref> He
guided the Delhi Parsi Anjuman and the Federation of Zoroastrian Anjumans for 20 years.<ref>{{cite web|last=Parsi |first=Delhi |url=http://delhiparsis.com/2007/08/19/delhi-celebrates-pateti-and-brings-in-the-parsi-new-year/ |title=» Delhi celebrates Pateti and brings in the Parsi New Year! Delhi Parsis |publisher=Delhiparsis.com |date=2007-08-19 |access-date=2012-03-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Lw1_dj9Yh4C&q=adi+sethna+parsi&pg=PA265 |title=The good Parsi: the fate of a colonial elite in a postcolonial society&nbsp;— Tanya M. Luhrmann&nbsp;— Google Books |access-date=2012-03-28|isbn=9780674356764 |last1=Luhrmann |first1=Tanya M. |year=1996 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://parsiana.com/archives/details.asp?article_id=12&search_for= |title=Welcome to Parsiana |publisher=Parsiana.com |access-date=2012-03-28}}</ref> Adi Sethna was also the Founder President of the [[UNESCO]] Parsi-Zoroastrian Project (PARZOR).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unescoparzor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=55&phpMyAdmin=sajdmQ8uXCI6iyWREItGtdZWr-2 |title=RESOLUTION PASSED AT THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING OF PARZOR FOUNDATION AT ITS MEETING HELD ON 2nd JANUARY 2007 TO CONDOLE THE PASSING AWAY OF ITS FOUNDER PRESIDENT LT. GEN. ADI M. SETHNA |publisher=Unescoparzor.com |access-date=2012-03-28}}</ref> He died of [[cancer]] in 2006.

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| title = [[Commandant of the Defence Services Staff College]]
| years = 1975 - 1978
| before = S P Malhotra
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| years =7 July 1980 – 31 December 1982
| before = Jaswant Singh
| after = [[Srinivas Kumar Sinha|S K Sinha]]}}
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