Major General Sultan Mahmood was a General of the Indian Army.
Sultan Mahmood | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mysore, India |
| Allegiance |  India |
| Service | Indian Army |
| Rank | Major General |
| Unit | Artillery |
| Commands | Director General (Recruiting), New Delhi |
Biography
editHe was a born in Mysore, India, and is the younger brother of Lieutenant General Jameel Mahmood, ex-General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Eastern Command of the Indian Army. He is a relative of Lieutenant General (retd.) Mohammad Ahmed Zaki of the Indian Army.[citation needed]
In the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 commanded four medium guns in the Kashmir Valley. In the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 he was part of the victorious force against East Pakistan. He later commanded an artillery brigade, serving as Brigadier-in-Charge in Punjab, and as the sub-area commander of Karnataka and Goa. Upon being promoted to the rank of major general he was appointed Director General (Recruiting) at the Army HQ in New Delhi.[citation needed]
As of 2001, he was one of only eight Muslims in the Indian Army to rise to the rank of major general.[1]
He was an alumnus of the Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore, India.[2][3]
See also
edit- Hyderabadi Muslims
- Golkonda
- Hyderabad State
- Muslim culture of Hyderabad
- History of Hyderabad for a history of the city of Hyderabad.
- Hyderabad (India) for the city.
References
edit- ^ The others are M. A. Zaki and Jameel Mahmood (who rose further to lieutenant general), Enayat Habibullah, Syed Mahdi Hasanain, Afsir Karim, Sami Khan, and A. S. Jamaal, see, Khalidi, Omar. "Ethnic group recruitment in the Indian army: The contrasting cases of Sikhs, Muslims, Gurkhas and others." Pacific Affairs (2001): 529-552.
- ^ "Alumni". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ The Order of the Crest: Tracing the Alumni of Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Aditya Sondhi