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Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri
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Born	(1908-06-10)June 10, 1908 Kolkata
Died	April 6, 1983(1983-04-06) (aged 74)
Allegiance	India
Service / branch	Indian Army
Years of service	1928 - 1966
Rank	Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army
Battles / wars	World War II Burma Campaign Vietnam War Hyderabad Police Action Indo-Pakistani war of 1965
Awards	Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Padma Vibhushan

Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri OBE (10 June 1908 – 6 April 1983) was Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 20th November 1962 to 07 June 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949.

Early Life

Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri was born on 10th June 1908, to a noted Bengali family that had produced renouned writers and lawyers. He received his education at St. Xavier's College in Kolkata and later at Highgate School in London. In 1926, he obtained a nomination to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where Ayub Khan , the first Military dictator of Pakistan, was his class mate. In February 1928, he was commissioned to the Indian Army where he joined the 7th Light Cavalry.

Service Life

During World War II he went overseas with the famous 5 Indian Division of British Indian Army and served in Sudan, Eritrea, Abyssinia and the Western Desert. He was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)and was mentioned in Dispatches thrice. In August 1944, he took over command of the 16 Light Cavalry, to become the first Indian Commanding Officer to lead an armored Regiment into battle and won great renown for fighting in Central Burma. At the end of the Burma campaign, he saw service in French Indo-China with his regiment in Java.

Army of Independent India

Personal

Chaudhuri hailed from a distinguished Bengali family that has produced many renowned lawyers and writers. His grandfather was a landlord of Chatmohar Upazila of Pabna district of present day Bangladesh. Noted writer Pramatha Chaudhuri, brother-in-law of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, was his uncle.

He joined the Indian Army in February 1928 and quickly rose through the ranks; he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services in South East Asian theatre as a cavalry/tank commander.His class mate at Sandhurst was Ayub Khan,later military ruler of Pakistan.At sandhurst, he got his nickname"muchhu".(owing to his rich mustachios) Following a course at the Imperial Defence College at England in 1947 (which he did with first Indian army chief KM Cariappa), he returned to India and was appointed Director of Military Operations & Intelligence at Army Headquarters in New Delhi in November 1947. He was the fourth officer to become director of military operations for the Indian army in the calendar year of 1947.He worked with Maj Gen Mohite to complete military evacuation from Pakistan. He had to organise the Kashmir war effort up to May 1948, when he was succeeded by SHFJ Maneckshaw as DMO and Chand Narayan Das as Director of Military Intelligence. He was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1948 and became the Chief of the General Staff (officiating). He commanded the 1948 Hyderabad Operations in sep 1948 and served as the Military Governor of Hyderabad State(1948–49). He was promoted to the rank of General in 1962 and took over as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS). He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour.

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