Out from ‘out of bound area’
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By K.N. Pandta
Indian Army remained faithfully glued to ‘out of bound” regulatory imposed on it by the civilian government of the Republic of India. It meant an arbitrary attempt of isolating Indian armed forces from social and psychological proximity to a defiant nation that was down but not out. This doctrine originated in the administrative manual of the British Indian rulers in post-1857-Mutiny era. Successors to colonial rule ensured that the regulatory did not lose its teeth after the transfer of power. They would not trust top brass of Indian armed forces believing that abandonment of Sandhurst culture was loathsome to it. Contemporary historians will do well to recall the outrageous purge in the Indian Army in early 1950s. Continue Reading…