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{{Short description|Indian Army general and diplomat (1908–1983)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = J N Chaudhuri জয়ন্তনাথ চৌধুরী
| imagesize =
| honorific-prefix = [[General (India)|General]]
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1908|06|10}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1983|04|06|1908|06|10}}
| image = File:General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]] [[Highgate School|Highgate School, London]]
| order =
| office = 9th [[High Commissioner]] of [[India]] to [[Canada]]
| term_start = July 1966
| term_end = August 1969
| predecessor = B. K. Acharya
| successor = A.B. Bhadkamkar
| office1 = 11th [[Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee]]
| term_start1 = 3 March 1966
| term_end1 = 7 June 1966
| president1 = [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]
| primeminister1 = [[Indira Gandhi]]
| predecessor1 = [[Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman]]
| successor1 = [[Arjan Singh]]
| office2 = 5th [[Chief of the Army Staff (India)|Chief of the Army Staff]]
| term_start2 = 20 November 1962
| term_end2 = 7 June 1966
| president2 = [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]
| primeminister2 = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] [[Gulzarilal Nanda]] ''(acting)'' [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] [[Indira Gandhi]]
| predecessor2 = [[Pran Nath Thapar]]
| successor2 = [[Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam|P. P. Kumaramangalam]]
| office3 = [[Military Governor]] of [[Hyderabad State]]
| term_start3 = 1948
| term_end3 = 1949
| predecessor3 =
| successor3 =
| module = {{Infobox military person | embed=yes
| nickname = Muchhu
| allegiance = {{flag|British India}} {{small|(1928–1947)}} {{flag|India}} {{small|(1947–1983)}}
| branch = {{army|British India}} {{small|(1928–1947)}} {{army|India}} {{small|(1947–1966)}}
| serviceyears = Feb 1928 – Jun 1966
| rank = [[File:General of the Indian Army.svg|20px]] [[General (India)|General]]
| servicenumber =IA-130<ref name="brig_subs"/>
| commands = [[File:IA_Southern_Command.svg|20px]] [[Southern Command (India)|Southern Army]] [[1st Armoured Division (India)|1st Armoured Division]] [[16th Light Cavalry|16 Light Cavalry]]
| unit = [[7th Light Cavalry]] [[16th Light Cavalry|16 Light Cavalry]]
| battles = [[Second World War]]
*[[East African Campaign (World War II)|East African Campaign]]
*[[Western Desert Campaign]]
*[[Burma Campaign 1944–45]]
[[Indo-Pakistani War of 1947]] [[Operation Polo]] [[Sino-Indian War of 1962]] [[Indo-Pakistan War of 1965]] [[Operation Vijay (1961)|Operation Vijay]]
| awards = [[File:Padma Vibhushan Ribbon.svg|23px]] [[Padma Vibhushan]] [[File:Order of the British Empire (Military) Ribbon.svg|23px]] [[Order of the British Empire]] [[File:EGY Order of Merit - Knight BAR.png|23px]] [[Order of Merit (Egypt)|Order Of Merit (Arab Union)]] [[File:Ribbon - Burma Star.png|23px]] [[Burma Star]] [[File:Ribbon - 1939-45 Star.png|23px]] [[1939–1945 Star]]}}
}}
[[General (India)|General]] '''Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri''' {{post-nominals|list=[[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]}} ([[Bengali Language|Bengali]]: জয়ন্তনাথ চৌধুরী; 10 June 1908 – 6 April 1983) was a [[General Officer]] in the [[Indian Army]]. He served as the 6th [[Chief of the Army Staff (India)|Chief of Army Staff]] from 1962 to 1966 and the [[Military Governor]] of [[Hyderabad State]] from 1948 to 1949. After his retirement from the Indian Army, he served as the Indian [[High Commissioner]] to Canada from 19 July 1966 until August 1969.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hciottawa.ca/pages.php?id=5 |title=High Commissioners of India in Canada - High Commission of India, Ottawa (Canada) |access-date=18 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924025258/http://www.hciottawa.ca/pages.php?id=5 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Family background and early life==
Chaudhuri was born into an aristocratic and distinguished Bengali Brahmin family which produced many renowned lawyers and writers. His family were the ''[[Zamindar]]s'' (landlords) of Haripur and the family was known as the Chaudhuris of Haripur in the province of Bengal, British India. Chaudhuri's paternal grandfather, Durgadas Chaudhuri, was the landlord of [[Chatmohar Upazila]] of [[Pabna]] district of present-day [[Bangladesh]]. His paternal grandmother, Sukumari Devi (wife of Durgadas), was a sister of the nobel laureate [[Rabindranath Tagore]]. Chaudhuri's mother, Pramila Chaudhuri, was the daughter of [[Womesh Chandra Bannerjee]], who was the first president of the [[Indian National Congress]].

Other members of Chaudhuri's family were also distinguished in their fields, mainly law, medicine and literature. Indeed, all six of his father's elder brothers, namely Sir Ashutosh Chaudhuri (distinguished judge during the [[British Raj]]), Jogesh Chaudhuri, Kumudnath Chaudhuri (barrister), [[Pramatha Chaudhuri|Pramathanath Chaudhuri]] (distinguished writer), Capt. Manmathanath Chaudhuri (first Indian surgeon-general of [[Madras Presidency]]) and Dr. Suhridnath Chaudhuri, were distinguished on their own right. Two of them (Sir Asutosh and Pramathanath) were married to their first cousins (mother's brother's daughters), the nieces of Rabindranath Tagore, and the others were married to women from distinguished [[Bengali people|Bengali]] families.

The pioneering Indian actress, [[Devika Rani]], was Chaudhuri's first cousin, being the daughter of his father's brother, Manmathnath Chaudhuri. Among Chaudhuri's other close relatives were Barrister Kumud Nath Chaudhuri and Raisahib Babu Narendra Krishna Talukdar, Zamindar of Maligacha and honorary first class magistrate for Pabna District, Rajshahi. Noted writer [[Pramatha Chaudhuri]], who married a niece of [[Nobel Prize|Nobel]] laureate poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]], was his uncle.

==Education==
Chaudhuri completed his early education in Pataldanga Academy (Now known as [[Hare School]]) in Calcutta.
Later he studied at [[St. Xavier's College]] ([[University of Calcutta]]). He also studied at [[Highgate School]] in London, from May 1923 until July 1926,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Rodney C |title=Highgate School Register 1838–1950 |date=1950 |location=London |page=245 |edition=5th}}</ref> and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. At Sandhurst, he got his nickname, "Muchhu" (owing to his [[moustache]]). [[Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan)|Ayub Khan]], who became [[President of Pakistan]] in 1958, was one of the batch-mates of Jayanto in Sandhurst; Ayub was in the same platoon where Jayanto was trained.

==Military career==
===Early career===
He was commissioned from Sandhurst as a second lieutenant onto the Unattached List, Indian Army on 2 February 1928.<ref name="commission_Gazette">{{London Gazette|issue=33353|page=766|date=3 February 1928}}</ref> Returning to India, he was attached to the 1st battalion [[North Staffordshire Regiment]] from 19 March 1928. He was accepted for the Indian Army and joined the [[7th Light Cavalry]] on 19 March 1929.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33510|page=4274|date=28 June 1929}}</ref> In 1934, he attended the course at the Equitation School, Saugor. He attended the Staff course at [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Command and Staff College]], [[Quetta]] from December 1939 to June 1940.

In 1940, as an acting major, he went overseas on the staff of the [[5th Infantry Division (India)|5th Infantry Division]] and saw service in [[Sudan]], [[Eritrea]], [[Ethiopian Empire|Abyssinia]] and the western deserts of Africa. For his services, he was [[Mentioned in Dispatches]] on 30 December 1941, for distinguished services in the Middle East Feb to July 1941,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35396|page=7353|date=26 December 1941}}</ref> and again on 30 June 1942 for the same from July to October 1941.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35611|supp=y|page=2856|date=26 June 1942}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] on 18 February 1943 for gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East between May to Oct 1942.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35908|supp=y|page=858|date=16 February 1943}}</ref> Recalled to India, he was appointed as a senior Instructor at the [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Command and Staff College]], [[Quetta]] as a GSO-1 in 1943.

In August 1944 he was transferred to the [[16th Light Cavalry]]. Then a temporary Lieut-Colonel, he commanded this unit from September 1944 to October 1945 in [[Burma]] for which he was twice more [[Mentioned in Dispatches]], (London Gazette 9/5/46) for gallant and distinguished services in Burma (Temporary Lt-Col 16th Light Cavalry) and (London Gazette 17/9/46) for gallant and distinguished services in Burma (Temporary Lt-Col, Indian Armoured Corps). At the end of the Burma campaign, he saw service in [[French Indochina]] and in [[Java]], [[Indonesia]] with his regiment.

In 1946, he was promoted to the temporary rank of [[Brigadier]] with the war-substantive rank of lieutenant-colonel, in Charge of Administration in [[British Malaya]] and in the same year was selected to command the Indian Victory Contingent to London.

===Post-Independence career===
Following a course at the [[Royal College of Defence Studies|Imperial Defence College]] in London in 1947, he returned to India and was appointed Director of Military Operations & Intelligence at Army Headquarters in New Delhi in November 1947.
Chaudhuri worked with Major General Mohite to complete military evacuation from Pakistan. He had to organise the [[Kashmir war]] effort up to May 1948, when he was succeeded by the then Brig. [[Sam Manekshaw]] as DMO and Chand Narayan Das as Director of Military Intelligence.
In February 1948, he was promoted to acting [[Major General]] and became the officiating Chief of the General Staff.

[[File:Op Polo Surrender.jpg|200px|right|thumb|[[Major General]] [[Syed Ahmed El Edroos]] (left) offers his surrender of the Hyderabad State Forces to Major General (later General and Army Chief) '''J. N. Chaudhuri''' at [[Secunderabad]]]]
[[File:OsmanNehruJN.jpg|200px|left|thumb|(From left to right): Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], [[Osman Ali Khan|Nizam VII]] and Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri after Hyderabad's accession to India]]

In May 1948, he took over command of the [[1st Armoured Division (India)|1st Armoured Division]] which played a major role in the [[Operation Polo|1948 Hyderabad Operations]]. Following [[Operation Polo]] in 1948, he was appointed as the [[Military Governor]] of [[Hyderabad State]]. In the years following, he occupied important military posts and led an Indian Military Delegation to China. In 1949, he was appointed as the first Colonel Commandant of the Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, and was promoted to substantive brigadier on 1 January 1950.<ref name="brig_subs">{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=70 |date=24 June 1950 |url=https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1950/O-2343-1950-0013-108724.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> In January 1952, he was appointed as the Adjutant General, Army HQ, as a substantive major-general, and in January 1953, he again took over as the Chief of the General Staff. He was promoted to local lieutenant-general on 16 December 1955 and given command of a corps,<ref name="ltgen_loc">{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=8 |date=14 January 1956 |url=https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1956/O-2163-1956-0002-98628.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> with promotion to substantive lieutenant-general on 8 May 1957.<ref name="ltgen_subs">{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=131 |date=25 May 1957 |url=https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1957/O-2125-1957-0021-96387.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> He was appointed GOC-in-C Southern Command on 25 May 1959.<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=154 |date=27 June 1959 |url=https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1959/O-1990-1959-0026-89894.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref>

===Chief of the Army staff===
The debacle of the [[Sino-Indian War]] and subsequent government inquiries revealing India's military unpreparedness and mismanagement resulted in the [[Chief of the Army Staff (India)|Chief of the Army Staff]] (COAS) [[Pran Nath Thapar]]'s resignation on 19 November 1962. On 20 November, Chaudhuri succeeded Thapar as officiating COAS with the acting rank of general.<ref name="COAS_actg">{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=2 |date=5 January 1963 |url=https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1963/O-1838-1963-0001-83376.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> Chaudhuri was officially appointed COAS on 20 February 1963,<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=227 |date=6 July 1963 |url=https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1963/O-1840-1963-0027-83495.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> and was promoted to substantive general on 20 July 1963.<ref name="gen_subs">{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=292 |date=31 August 1963 |url=https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1963/O-1840-1963-0035-83503.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> In March 1964, he was decorated with the Grand Cordon of the [[Order of Merit (Egypt)|Order of Merit]] of the [[United Arab Republic]] by its President, [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]].<ref>{{cite web|title=UAR Decoration for General Chaudhuri|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1964-JAN-JUNE-MIN-OF-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1964-03-30_241.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=30 March 1964|access-date=1 February 2020}}</ref>

Chaudhari was COAS during the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]], generally regarded as a victory for India.

Chaudhari is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the [[Border Security Force]]. In the aftermath of the 1965 war, he proposed a paramilitary force to patrol the Indo-Pakistani border in peacetime and would be relieved by the army when war was imminent.<ref>{{cite book |title=Indian Security Policy |author=Thomas, Raju G. C. |year=1986 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9780691077246}}</ref> For his services to the nation, he was presented with the [[Padma Vibhushan]] – India's second highest civilian honour — by the President of India.<ref>{{cite web |title=PRESS NOTE |url= http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1965-AUG-DEC-DURING-INDO-PAK/PDF/DEF-1965-11-09_235.pdf|website=pibarchive.nic.in |date=9 November 1965}}</ref> He retired on 7 June 1966, after completing 38 years of military service.

==Diplomatic career==
After his retirement, Chaudhuri was appointed High Commissioner of India to Canada.<ref name="HCI Canada PIB">{{cite web |title=PRESS NOTE |url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/EXTERNAL%20AFFAIRS/1966-APR-JUNE-VOL2-EXTERNAL-AFFAIRS/PDF/EXT-1966-04-30_064.pdf |website=pibarchive.nic.in |date=30 April 1966}}</ref> After a three year stint at the High Commission of India at Ottawa, he relinquished office, handing over to A. B. Bhadkamkar in August 1969.<ref>{{cite web |title=INDIA'S NEW ENVOY TO CANADA |url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/LAW/1969-MAY-AUG-MINISTRY-OF-VOL%202/PDF/LAW-1969-08-23_269.pdf|website=pibarchive.nic.in |date=23 August 1969}}</ref>

==Later years and legacy==
Chaudhuri wrote two books on military matters and served as a literary reviewer for a leading Indian daily ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]''. He was the first Indian army chief to write an autobiography in 1979. He loved [[Western culture#Music|Western music]] and founded and was first president of the Delhi Symphony Society, an organisation that promoted Western music. Chaudhuri was married to Karuna Chattopadhyay, with whom he had two sons.

Chaudhuri died at his home in [[Pamposh Enclave]], New Delhi of a [[cardiac arrest]] on 6 April 1983, and was survived by his wife and two sons.<ref>{{cite web|title=General Chaudhuri Passed Away, An Outstanding Military Leader, Says Shri R. Venkataraman|url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1983-JAN-JUNE-MIN-OF-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1983-04-06_103.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=6 April 1983|access-date=27 March 2022}}</ref> His funeral and cremation the following day, with full military honours, was attended by hundreds of serving and retired officers and soldiers, including his fellow Chiefs of Staff, Admiral A. K. Chatterji and Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh.<ref>{{cite web|title=General Chaudhuri Cremated|url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1983-JAN-JUNE-MIN-OF-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1983-04-07_104.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=6 April 1983|access-date=27 March 2022}}</ref> In his honour, the BSF awards its best infantry battalion with the GEN. J. N. Chaudhuri trophy annually.

==Awards and decorations==
{| style="margin:1em auto; text-align:center;"
|
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Padma Vibhushan Ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=India_General_Service_Medal_1947.svg|width=106}}
|
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=IND_Sainya_Seva_Medal_Ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Indian_Independence_medal_1947.svg|width=108}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award‐star|ribbon=Order of the British Empire (Military).png|width=100}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=1939–1945 Star.png|width=100}}
|-
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Burma Star BAR.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Ribbon_-_War Medal & MiD.png|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Ribbon_India_Service_Medal.png|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=EGY_Order_of_Merit_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png|width=106}}
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
|
|[[Padma Vibhushan]]
|[[General Service Medal 1947]]
|
|-
|[[Indian military decorations#Service and campaign medals|Sainya Seva Medal]]
|[[Indian Independence Medal]]
|Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (Military Division)
|[[1939–1945 Star]]
|-
|[[Burma Star]]
|[[War Medal 1939–1945]]
|[[India Service Medal]]
|Grand Cordon of the [[Order of Merit (Egypt)|Order of Merit]] ([[United Arab Republic]])
|}

==Dates of rank==
{|class="wikitable" style="background:white"
! Insignia !! Rank !! Component !! Date of rank
|-
|align="center" |[[File:British_Army_(1920-1953)_OF-1a.svg|35px]] || [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom & other Commonwealth countries|Second Lieutenant]] || [[British Indian Army]] || 2 February 1928<ref name="commission_Gazette"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:British_Army_(1920-1953)_OF-1b.svg|35px]] || [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|Lieutenant]] || British Indian Army || 2 May 1930<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33613|page=3572|date=6 June 1930}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33632|page=4946|date=8 August 1930}}</ref>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:British_Army_(1920-1953)_OF-2.svg|35px]] || [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] || British Indian Army || 2 February 1937<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34381|page=1827|date=19 March 1937}}</ref>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:British_Army_(1920-1953)_OF-3.svg|35px]] || [[Major (United Kingdom)|Major]] ||British Indian Army || 1940 (acting) 22 September 1941 (temporary)<ref name="Indian_Army_List_45">{{cite book|pages=153|title=Indian Army List for October 1945 (Part I)|publisher=Government of India Press|year=1945}}</ref> 8 February 1943 (war-substantive)<ref name="1946_List">January 1946 Half Yearly Army List</ref> 2 February 1945 (substantive)<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37085|supp=|page=2577|date=18 May 1945}}</ref>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:British_Army_(1920-1953)_OF-4.svg|35px]] || [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]] || British Indian Army || 22 September 1941 (acting)<ref name="Indian_Army_List_45"/> 8 February 1943 (temporary)<ref>{{cite book|pages=2512a–c|title=The Quarterly Army List: December 1946 (Part I)|publisher=HM Stationery Office|year=1946}}</ref> 21 January 1946 (war-substantive)<ref name="brig_subs"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:British_Army_(1920-1953)_OF-5.svg|35px]] || [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] || British Indian Army || 21 January 1946 (acting)<ref name="Quarterly_Army_List">{{cite book|pages=220v–z|title=The Quarterly Army List: December 1946 (Part I)|publisher=HM Stationery Office|year=1946}}</ref>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:British_Army_(1920-1953)_OF-3.svg|35px]] || Major || [[Indian Army]] || 15 August 1947<ref name="insignia" group="note">Upon independence in 1947, India became a [[Dominion of India|Dominion]] within the British [[Commonwealth of Nations]]. As a result, the rank insignia of the [[British Army]], incorporating the [[Tudor Crown (heraldry)|Tudor Crown]] and four-pointed [[Order of the Bath|Bath Star]] ("pip"), was retained, as [[George VI of the United Kingdom|George VI]] remained Commander-in-Chief of the [[Indian Armed Forces]]. After 26 January 1950, when India became a [[Republic of India|republic]], the [[President of India]] became Commander-in-Chief, and the [[Lion Capital of Asoka|Ashoka Lion]] replaced the crown, with a five-pointed star being substituted for the "pip."</ref><ref name="insignia_designs"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:British_Army_(1920-1953)_OF-7.svg|35px]] || [[Major general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] || Indian Army || February 1948 (acting)<ref name="insignia" group="note"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:British Army (1928-1953) OF-6.svg|35px]] || [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|Brigadier]] ||Indian Army || 21 January 1946 (acting)<ref name="Quarterly_Army_List"/> 1 January 1950 (substantive)<ref name="brig_subs"/><ref name="insignia" group="note"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:Brigadier_of_the_Indian_Army.svg|35px]] || Brigadier || Indian Army || 26 January 1950 (recommissioning and change in insignia)<ref name="insignia_designs">{{cite web|title=New Designs of Crests and Badges in the Services|url=http://pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_38/ACC%20NO%20807-BR/HOM-1950-01-06_484.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India – Archive|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808193914/http://pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_38/ACC%20NO%20807-BR/HOM-1950-01-06_484.pdf|archive-date=8 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=227 |date=11 February 1950 |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:Major_General_of_the_Indian_Army.svg|35px]] || [[Major general#India|Major General]] || Indian Army || January 1952 (substantive)
|-
|align="center" |[[File:Lieutenant_General_of_the_Indian_Army.svg|35px]] || [[Lieutenant General (India)|Lieutenant General]] || Indian Army || 16 December 1955 (local)<ref name= "ltgen_loc"/> 8 May 1957 (substantive)<ref name="ltgen_subs"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:General_of_the_Indian_Army.svg|35px]] || [[General (India)|General]] (COAS) || Indian Army || 20 November 1962 (acting)<ref name="COAS_actg"/> 20 July 1963 (substantive)<ref name="gen_subs"/>
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[Indian Army]]

==Notes==
{{reflist|group=note}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* Pradeep P. Barua, Gentlemen of the Raj: The Indian Army Officer Corps, 1817–1949

==External links==
*http://www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk/mbindex/index179.shtml
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060310074612/http://www.regiments.org/biography/defchiefs/in2CinC.htm]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140324122358/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Personnel/Chiefs/127-JN-Chaudhuri.html Indian Army Bio]

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