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| honorific prefix = [[Rear admiral (India)|Rear Admiral]]
| name = K. R. Nair
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| birth_date = 1915
| death_date = 2007
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| nickname = Jerry<ref name="Quarterdeck">{{cite magazine |last=Govil |first=Jyotsna |date=2012 |title=Admiral "Jerry" Nair |url=https://www.navyfoundationmumbaicharter.in/pdf/finalqd_2012.pdf |magazine=Quarterdeck 2012 |location=Noida |publisher=The Navy Foundation |access-date=16 January 2021}}</ref>
| allegiance = {{flag|British Raj}} {{flag|India}}
| branch = {{navy|British Raj}} {{flagicon image|Naval Ensign of India.svg}} [[Indian Navy]]
| serviceyears = 1942–1971
| rank = [[File:British_Royal_Navy_(sleeves)_OF-7.svg|23px]]
[[Rear admiral (India)|Rear Admiral]]
| commands = [[Eastern Naval Command]] Flag Officer, East Coast INS ''Venduruthy'' [[INS Valsura]] 22nd Destroyer Squadron INS ''[[HMS Raider (H15)|Rana]]''
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[[Rear admiral (India)|Rear Admiral]] '''Kesavapillai Ramakrishnan "Jerry" Nair''' (1915–2007) was a former Flag officer in the [[Indian Navy]] who served as the first Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief [[Eastern Naval Command]].

==Career==
===Early career===
Nair was commissioned in the Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RINVR) in 1942,<ref name="flag_rank">{{cite web|title=Naval Promotions to Flag Rank|url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1965-AUG-DECC-MIN-OF-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1965-08-17_026.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=17 August 1965|access-date=16 January 2021}}</ref> and was promoted temporary acting lieutenant on 8 April 1943.<ref>{{cite book |date=1943 |title=The Navy List: June 1944|chapter=Officers of The Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve|publisher=H.M. Government|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/navylistjun1944v2grea/page/1976/mode/2up|pages=1977 }}</ref> In 1944, he attended a specialist anti-submarine course in the United Kingdom.<ref name="flag_rank"/> On 21 January 1945, he was posted to HMIS ''Machlimar'' at Bombay, whose executive officer was Lieutenant-Commander [[Ram Dass Katari]].<ref>{{cite book |date=1945 |title=The Navy List: July 1945|chapter=The Royal Indian Navy|publisher=H.M. Government|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/navylistjul1945v3grea/page/3442/mode/2up|pages=3443}}</ref>

===Post-Independence===
Nair was promoted to acting commander (paid) on 31 December 1949 and to substantive commander on 30 June 1951.<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch) |page=93 |date=14 January 1950 |url=https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1950/O-2343-1950-0000-108637.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch) |page=133 |date=14 July 1951 |url=https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1951/O-2307-1951-0028-107893.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> On 3 January 1955, he was appointed CO, INS ''Venduruthy'' at Cochin with the acting rank of captain,<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch) |page=214 |date=29 October 1955 |url=https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1955/O-2199-1955-0044-100843.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> receiving promotion to the substantive rank on 31 December 1955.<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch) |page=74 |date=14 April 1956|publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> He held several important commands, including CO of INS ''[[HMS Raider (H15)|Rana]]'', captain of the 22nd Destroyer Squadron and INS ''Valsura'' at Jamnagar.<ref name="flag_rank"/> He was appointed [[Chief of Personnel (India)|Chief of Personnel]] (COP) at Naval Headquarters on 20 November 1959, in the rank of commodore,<ref name="gazette_1960">{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch) |page=87 |date=9 April 1960 |url=http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1960/O-1952-1960-0015-87969.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> and served until 1963, when he was appointed chief of staff to the Flag Officer Commanding Indian Fleet (FOCIF),<ref name="flag_rank"/> serving under Rear Admirals [[Adhar Kumar Chatterji]] and [[Benjamin Abraham Samson]]. In June 1965, he was appointed to a second tenure as Chief of Personnel and was promoted rear admiral in August when the post was raised to flag rank.<ref name="flag_rank"/>

In July 1967, Nair was appointed the first Flag Officer East Coast, based at Vishakhapatnam.<ref>{{cite web|title=Admiral Nair - New Flag Officer, East Coast|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1967-JULY-DEC-DEFENCE-VOL-2/PDF/DEF-1967-07-17_015.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=17 July 1967|access-date=16 January 2021}}</ref> Eight months later, on 1 March 1968, he became the first Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command (FOC-in-C, ENC) when the post was upgraded. After serving for three years, he retired from the Navy in March 1971.<ref>{{cite web|title=Admiral Krishnan Takes Over as FOC-in-C Eastern Naval Command|url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1971-JAN-AUG-MIN-OF-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1971-02-28_096.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=28 February 1971|access-date=16 January 2021}}</ref> He died in 2007.<ref name="Quarterdeck"/>

==References==
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{{s-new|reason=Post upgraded from '''Flag Officer East Coast'''}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command]]|years=1968-1971}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Nilakanta Krishnan]]}}
{{s-bef|before=Douglas St. John Cameron (as Commodore East Coast)}}
{{s-ttl|title=Flag Officer East Coast|years=1967-1968}}
{{s-non|reason=Post upgraded to FOC-in-C Eastern Naval Command}}
{{s-bef|before=Douglas St. John Cameron}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Chief of Personnel (India)|Chief of Personnel]] (second tenure)|years=1965-1967}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Jal Cursetji]]}}
{{s-bef|before=G. S. Kapoor}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Chief of Personnel (India)|Chief of Personnel]] (first tenure)|years=1959-1963}}
{{s-aft|after=Douglas St. John Cameron}}
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[[Category:1915 births]]
[[Category:2007 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian Navy admirals]]
[[Category:Indian military personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Royal Indian Navy officers]]
[[Category:Chiefs of Personnel (India)]]

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