The change in “ CHARACTERISTIC ” of the India Armed Force Which" FLIES " like a " BUTTERFLY " and " STINGS " like a " BEE "

Pic :: Mangal Pandey, the " FIRST " to bring in a" CHANGE"  in the " MINDSET " of the Indian Soldiers

The change in “ CHARACTERISTIC ” of the Indian Armed Force

A Brief History Of India Army Under the Britishers

Certain things are NOT at all possible to write and describe and the be a perfect historian for it to describe and narrate.

It is very hard to ascribe and describe the Indian Army which has a history even before it was formed when the British took it over from the East India Company and formed the Indian British Army to fight for them.

It is also very hard to find out the dates but a thorough research has made it possible to fond out the date of the Indian Army as to when was it formed.

Here in this write up I shall present a very short description of the indian Army and the change that occurred in it’s habit and charecteristics.

The Origin of the Indian Army-::

The words would fail but a small attempt is made by me to write about the origin of the indian Army.When I use the word “ ARMY ” I take the THREE wings of the Army ie the DEFENSE FORCE of India, the Indian Military as I would like to call that, the INDIAN AIR FORCE and the INDIAN NAVY. However here I would only WRITE about the INDIAN MILITARY ie that section of the defense who we call it as a ARMY fighting on the land . 

“ I’M NOT DESCRIBING ANYTHING ABOUT THE INDIAN AIR-FORCE AND THE INDIAN NAVY ”

Very hard again to find out the origin and the time when the Indian Army was formed a thorough research was done by me and I found out that the Indian Army was formed even before the British laid it’s rule here in India by the name of the EAST INDIA COMPANY and then the Britishers took it over from the East India Company and added the Indian Army under it’s wing by naming it the BRITISH INDIAN ARMY. 

It is said that the Army was formed even before the Britishers in the form of the Esat India Company  had arrived here. Hence the exact date of the Indian Army and all about it’s formation will not be known to me but the British East india Company was started here in India in 1600AD and immediately thereafter the Indian British Army was formed by them so I take the formation and the foundation year as 1600 AD.

The Indian Army has its origins in the years after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, often called the Indian Mutiny in British histories, when in 1858 the Crown took over direct rule of British India from the East India Company. ... These operated alongside units of the British Army, funded by the British government in London

The Army of India was raised under the British Raj in the 19th century by taking the erstwhile presidency armies, merging them, and bringing them under the Crown. The British Indian Army fought in both World Wars

The YEAR when the British Indian Army gained the “ WORLDWIDE ” reputation ::

It was the MUTINY that was caused in 1857 when Mangal Pandey a “ SEPOY ” of the British India Army refused to bite the bullet that contained the fats of the pigs to fire a gun shot . That was the  FIRST occasion when the Indian Army revolted against the British in 1857.

This gained a WORLD-WIDE reputation and from here started the MUTINY and the FIRST WAR OF INDIAN INDEPENDENCE.

 “ IT IS THE INDIAN ARMY WHICH SIGNALLED AND “ ORIGINATED ” THE STRUGGLE OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IN INDIA ” .  The man who led it from the FRONT was MANGAL PANDEY  .This was the start and from here the CHANGE in the BEHAVIOUR and the CHARECTERISTIC started taking shape and the place of the Indian Army

“ SLANG ” that started in the Indian Army ::

In my personal life and from my family we have a few who have had the experience of being in the DEFENSE sector of India.  A cousin of mine always used certain terms which I would call it a “ SLANG ” to hear it for.

I asked him once WHY THESE SLANGS. He replied- IT WAS AND IT IS A “ ARMY-SLANG ” .That made my interest RICHER-AND-DEEPER” to learn why and how the slangs came and have entered in the Army . My deep study took me down to 1857 when after the MUTINY that  took place in the British Army, the Britishers after dousing the same, came up with a word “ PANDY” which was a substituted word of “PANDA” an animal and they started using this as a SLANG to BELITTLE Mangal Pandey and his deed so that the Indian Unit of army under the BRITISH remains completely doused and it does not make any attempt for any revolt in the future.  THIS IS HOW THE INDIAN UNIT OF THE BRITISH ARMY WAS MADE TO SUBDUE THEMSELVES TO THE BRITISHERS AND THIS WAS TH FIRST CHANGE IN THE CHARECTERISTICS OF THE INDIAN ARMY UNDER THE BRITISH. 

The various change and the change of the mindset of the Indian unit of the British Army is again very hard for me to tell and write but the real change in the attitude of the Indian Army was seen in the world War- I .

World War – I :: The “ FIRST” Of The “ PERKS-REVOLT ” In The Army Against The Britishers.

One might NEVER know what was the reason of the World war-I .Well, I describe it as under-::

The “ PRINCE ” of Austria was slained and killed and that caused a GREAT deal of LOSS to Romania and Hungary. Austria though is a nation which is very close to Germany at Europe, it was ruled by the Hungarian in one part of the country and by Romania in the other half. The Austrian Royal family every year had to pay a ROYALTY to the Kings and the Royal families of  Romania and Hungary.

With the slaining of the Prince of Austria, this royalty somehow was stopped by the Austrian Royal family as they could not bear to pay that kind of a huge amount of the royalty to the two countries that I have mentioned here. Obviously – there aroused some grouse for the same and it was Hungary which started the fight. The result was that the war broke out.

Britain being the most POWERFUL nation at that time was approached by the Hungarians to help them for the war. British and the British ruling authority were assured of a huge bonus if Britain fought the war along with them and won the war for them. It was here that Britain used the members of the Indian unit of the British Army during the war.

It was HERE that the BUGUIL of the SECOND MUTINY that broke out with the Indian unit of the British Army and the Britishers who were ruling India. The Indian members/ unit demanded that their widows and their off-springs ought to be full taken care and compensated if they lost their war . After all the future too holds for anybody and the Britishers ought to take a good care of those who would be martyred in the war. Initially the Britishers were not ready to meet this expenses.

The other reason why the Indian stood their ground very badly and very stubbornly for the same was that the indian Unit of the British Army was very POORLY paid and compensated. This did not go well with the Indians and when they sw their chance coming to that they demanded for the same. Once the Britishers did agree to that, the Indians went to the war.The British and it’s allies could win the War because of the gallantry and the chivalry that the Indian Unit especially the SIKHS and the RAJPUTS displayed during the war. The World at large who were fighting the war could see the STYLE, the COURAGE and the FEARLESS attitude of the Indians who were the one’s fighting for the Britishers to win the war for them.

THAT AGAIN WAS THE SECOND OCASSION WHEN THE ATTITUDEand th “ MENTAL-MAKE-UP ”  CHANGED WITHIN THE INDIAN ARMY TO FIGHT THE WAR .

In all during that War there were about 550 Indian soldiers who were KILLED in the war and the statistics says that there were about 87 ( Eighty Seven ) Indians who were conferred with the QUEEN VICTORIA CROSS , the HIGHEST GALLANTRY AWARD that was conferred by the Britishers to the soldiers .

Who started Army in India?

 Mohan Singh

Pic - :: Mohan Singh The  " FIRST "  Inventor Of The Indian Army 

It was Mohan Singh who started the Indian Army and NOT Netaji Subash Chandra Bose. Mohan Singh came from a family of Army and his great great Grand father was a member of that Indian Unit of British army who supported Mangal Pandey when the FIRST revolt in terms of the mutiny took place here at India. That idea impressed and motivated Mohan Singh like anything that  he resigned his job under the Britishers as a Army personnel and went to form an independent Army here at India to fight the Britishers. His attempts were quashed by the Britishers .

Pic :: Netaji Taking The Guard Of Honour From The Azad Hind Fauz with Mohan Singh 

 Finding it hard to single handedly fight the British and with NO ADEQUATE HELP from any quarter, he went to Singapore to from an Indian Army at Singapore. However the funds were not adequate with him. When he met Netaji in Singapore he, ie Mr Bose was on HIGH and   was highly impressed by Netaji and Netaji also needed a man with all the experience of the Army to form the AZAD-HIND-FAUZ and when he got a person as highly impressive and experienced as Mohan Singh, he took him under his wing. That started the origin and the ROOT of the INDIAN ARMY , NOT in India but at abroad at Singalpore and it was MOHAN SINGH who actually had formed an Indian Army abroad, FIRST, before his small unit was annexed to the Azad Hind Fauz.

There were many prisoners at the jail at Singapore. These had revolted against the British. Once freed they were assembled at Singapore by Mohan Singh .From these prisoners, the First Indian National Army was formed under Mohan Singh. Singh was an officer in the British-Indian Army who was captured early in the Malayan campaign. His nationalist sympathies found an ally in Fujiwara and he received considerable Japanese aid and support .later Mohan Singh joined the Azad Hind Fauz and that gave the Fauz a very good hand to train them and make them SOLID to fight as an unit.

This unit , the Azad Hind Fauz during that time had about 40,000 soldiers  as compared ther Army that Brirish had it over here with only 20,000 personnels to fight for them, and there were about 5,000 women in that Army. That was the FIRST occasion that the  ARMY  anywhere in the WORLD had women’s in them to take on the fight and it was NETAJI SUBASH CHANDRA BOSE who gave the place and the seat to the WOMEN in the ARMY to make the world to BELIEVE that WOMEN TOO ARE A “FORCE” TO RECKON WITH

The Third Occasion When The Make-Up and The Mentality Of The Indian Changed In Army.

Between 1942 to 1944 the Azad Hind Fauz within that two years of time fought as many as FIVE battle with the British-Indian Army at Andaman and Nicobar, Taiwan, Singapore and Rangoon and it WON all it’s war against them. Not only that IT LIBERATED all the areas that the Britishers were holding under them in these areas. At places it also fought together with the Japanese army to completely outclass and slash the British Force to “ NOUGHT ” .

These wars actually were the TRIAL-AND-THE-ERROR , a ploy of Netaji to completely IRON and ROCK the mental make up of the Azad Hind Fauz to take on the Britishers in their final onslaught at Rangoon aand at india to sweep them of their feet and liberate India.

The manner  in which those Indian fought the war against the MIGHT of the Britishers who also used the cannon which the Azad Hind Fauz was not possessing then, and defrat them, grinding them to the dust was something which was a very upheaveal task for the FAUZ to do it. But when thet did it and beat the Britishers the MENTAL-MAKE up was completely changed for those Fauz and that was another occasion that one saw the change in the attitude and the character of the Indians at war.

When was the Indian army created?

Though not a very certain dates are vailable, however it is believed that WITHIN the BRITISH-INDIA Army under the British, a separate wing of Indian army was created by the Britishers.

The British had TWO wings of their Army. The FIRST was the SPECIALS who had come here from Ireland, Scotland and Wales . They would operate the cannons and the tanks in whatever way the British Indian Army had then and the Indians would fight it with the guns.

 1^st  April 1895,  is the date when the FIRST Indian Army was created and by then from 1895 to till about the Indians either separately for the Azad Hind Fauz and for the Britishers had fought about FIVE wars which could be termed as the WAR TO LIBERATE INDIA and the TWO WORLD WAR of which the second one in the offing as it started from 1940 and it ended at 1944 . India and the Indian soldiers till then had fought the FIVE wars against the Britishers, the ONE World war between 1914 to1918 and the SIXTH one, the SECOND WORLD WAR which was in progress had seen the Indian Army and it’s  personnel fighting with their bent of mind completely changed under the varying circumstances and the mental make up was such that whenever the Indian took onto the field it SHOOK the opponent and CRACKED them like the wall gets cracked never to be JOINED AGAIN. That is what the mental make up and the characteristic of the Indian Army men till then had been.

 Who is number 1 army in the world?

If we take the ENTIRE ammunitions and the personnel along with it’s STRENGTH associated with it, OBVIOUSLY the US is the LARGEST as well as the STRONGEST Army in the World. However if we have to TAKE the MODERN-SPOHISTICATION-DESTRUCTABLE weapons than the Russians would walk away with the honour.The kind of the ammunitions and the weapons that the Russins owe and possess, for example their INTER-CONTINENTAL-BALLISTIC-MISSILES which fired from Moscow can CROOS and TRAVEL the THREE continents and can fall at Melbourne to damage the entire city of Melbourne is something and the likes of those kind of weapons are something that it makes them THE STRONGEST ARMY in terms of possessing the MOST DESTRUCTABLE Army in the world.

However in yterms of the number of those Army personnels who FIGHT with the GUNS at and on the GROUND, the HONOUR definitely goes to China with India close behind and I put my numbers here for a peruse of a very careful nature…..!!!!!

Rank	Country	Active  Military Personnel
1	China	2,035,000
2	India	1,444,500
3	United States of America	1,359,450
4	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	1,280,000
The pres ent status of the Indian Army Indian Armed Forces
	Active	Reserve
Indian Army	1,237,117	960,000
Indian Navy	67,228	55,000
Indian Air Force  -----------------------------------Hence – from the figure it is well assumed that the total strength of the Indian army is the SECOND LARGEST in the WORLD The Indo-Chinese Aggression of 1962 : A Lesson In   “OBJECTIVITY” and “ IGNORANCE ” There are many and many a story that is told and written about THIS- the ONLY war which the Indian Army had LOST to it’s opponent the People Liberation Army ( PLA )	139,576  Total 14,43,921	140,000 11,55,000

There were and there are many incident linked to this aggression and the FOREMOST was the BLIND EYED attitude and the OVERBELIEF by India on the Chinese leadership. That was the TOPMOST reason that India DID NOT CARE about it’s MILITARY STRENGTENNING at all. During that time when this war with China was fought, the entire BUDGET of India was almost 307 crores for the Indian defense, and this was a PEA-NUT for India to spend it on the budget.

Pandit Nehru as the Prime Minister just DID NOT give any heed or any DAMN to the defense sector and it’s budget.

Secondly- the kind of ammunition and the attires that are needed to fight in the nail-biting-chills at the Himalayas and on the ice was NOT at all there with India to take on that kind of a well grained-and-trained Chinese Army . Again with NO ammunition and the bullets or even the planes, SOPHISTICATED during that era , it was not at all possible for the Indian Army to take on the might of the Chinese.

Third -  The Indian did not practice or train at any time on these kind of icy surface and the cold to fight and take on the Chinese . That was revealed by the CEO of the Indian Army to fight on thee land Mr Thimappa who took onto two separate driils on the ice to fight  the Chinese Army at the Himalayas but he could make it out very soon that it would be a crushing defeat for the Indians based on the factors stated above to shake the pillars of China and cause them any defeat.

Pic:: 1962, Canvas Shoes On The feet Of Indian Army and Ordinary Rifles to Fight China 

Obviously when China launched a full fledged attack on India, India and the Indian army had to get and plunge into the business. The Indian Army knew that without anything it would not be possible for them to win the war- but without anything as such and those kind of scarcity and means of useless ammunition, when it entered the FRAY- it pulled the Chinese days after days to prolong thewar however suffereing the HEAVIEST of the HEAVY casualty. It was MORE of a MENTAL make up and the COURAGE that the Indian Army always had that it pulled the war for such a long period of time finally losing that.

 However that defeat was another kind of a mental make up and a change in the dimension and the characteristic of the Indian Army. It was obvious to them that if they are supplied with the most sophisticated and the modern ammunities it would cause a HEAVY destruction and would shatter the enemy for all that it possesses.This war against China completely brought in a very different kind of a ROCK-STEAD attitude and the spirit of fighting till it’s is death that kills them and NOT the bullets of the opponent and that infact changed and REVOLUTIONISED the Indian Army in terms of it’s perspective and  attiude for ever.    It had a reason for the same

Pic :: 1962, a scene of Indian Army standing on the Border with any AMMUNITION to fight the Chinese Army 

In that war as the days were passing one after the another- the Indian Army at one point of a time even DID NOT have the guns with them to fight the war . There were even NO BULLETS to fight it. There were many an occasion when the soldiers wrestles with the Chinese Army before they were shot dead That is how India was fighting the war

What surprised many was the fact that the Indian Air Force was NOT used at all to fight the war That made the Army fighting on the ground a TIGER-WITHOUT-THE-CLAWS-AND-THE-NAILS.

Frequent PLAY-ON-PLAY-OFF with the Pakistanis and the ISI

Since 1989 and ever since the year 2017 India continuously EVERYDAY is fighting a PROXY-WAR with Pakistan and it’s trained terrorist at the border. This fight that is carried out by ambushing by both the ned is giving a very different kind of a mental make up and the strength everyday to the Indian Army for fighting it’s enemy and learning the nuances of overhauling the strategy and changing the tricks and the gamut of the fighters’ fight and the war .

A complete set of a new mind game and a new pattern of the fight  which India is deploying is makng our Army very matured and very experienced to change it’s gameploy and the strategy at the nick-of-the-time at any moment and it puts the opponent in the worst of the position to get itself overhauled and mauled. It is MOULDING the Indian Army to the BEST of the MINDSET This is an advantage that the Indian Army has SHRILLED with EVERY GRILL during the last few years.

MINDSET OF THE INDIAN ARMY SINCE 1967 AND THE “ REVERSES ” OF THE CHINESE ARMY

In 1967 China had made an attempt to enter into Sikkim through the Nathula Pass.It did enter India with a strength of about 500 Chinese Soldiers heavily armed with modern sophisticated weapons.

Pics:: The 1967 Indo-China mini war at Natula Pass

The Indian Army hardly 50 in numbers fought like a WOUNDED TIGER to inflict such a casualty that there were about 150 Chinese Soldiers dead and the remaining had to flee away from that area. There were many wounded as well. The casualty from the Indian ens was about 25 and it is siad that Albert Ekka was a part of this troupe of the Indian aemy which caused that kind of a serious damage to the Chinese Army. It was again the MINDSET and the OVERALL change in the attitude of the Indian Army then and from then onwards to quell off the disaster and the danger which went a LONG way in the 1971 war to fight the Pakistanis. 

THAT WAS THE SEED SOWN FROM  WHERE THERE WAS A COMPLETE CHANGE OF THE MINDSET OF THE INDIAN ARMY AND IT'S ATTITUDE 

A handful of the Indian army was so aggressive and so FEROCIOUS that it send a SHIVER down the spine of the CHINESE AUTHORITIES then that it’s planning to attack India thereafter went to the shadows of the defeat with it’s JAW totally FREEZED and NERVED .

It is SO “ PITY ” that the shameless CONGRESS WIPED this actual STORY of the valour of the Indian Army from every pages of the books that wrote this story in India on the various pages of every newspaper and the journals just because Indira Gandhi was to take the HELP of the COMMUNIST the LEFTISTS of India for forming the Government of the Congress at the centre.

 ONLY WE AS A SHAMEFUL NATION CAN AFFORD TO DO THAT. ONLY CONGRESS AS A SHAMEFUL PARTY  COULD HAVE DONE THAT.

  Well coming to the CHANGE of the mindset of the Indian soldiers then- It was very evident which we saw about how Albert Ekka ALONE took on the might of the Pakistani Army in the 1971 war to destroy and completely annihilate that Army in ONE night before he handed that CHOWKI of Pakistan- the entry point of Bangladesh to the Indian Army before he breathed his last.

That kind of a mindset was there and from there it started developing and germinating in the Indian Army after that incursion and aggression of the Indian Army against the Chinese  at the Nathula.

The Chinese since then lost a MINI-BATTLE of ATTRITION in 1969 against the Russian in an tangle with them at the Russia/USSR- China border and against the Vietnamese Army which were numbered at 20,000 against the MIGHT of the Chinese Army which was numbered at 29,000.

China’s Planning To Engage India For A Duel

Without taking much and writing much::

 THE CHINESE WILL FIND THE MODERN INDIAN ARMY A VERY VERY TOUGH CUSTOMER AND A HARD NUT TO CRACK. Take it from me the Chinese Administrators of that GREAT country.

The kind of a KNACK-KNOCK-AND-THE CRACK- that you will get and over it the destruction's that would be caused by the Indian Air Force which was PURPOSELY NOT made to fly during the 1962 excursion  will put you and your entire country as well as it’s ECONOMY BACK by 30 years.

This is NOT the INDIA that you saw that was ILL-GEARED UNGUARED and ILL-PREPARED as in 1962 to lose out that war. 

THIS IS INDIA OF THE 21^ST MILLINIUM WHOSE ARMY SAYS THAT AND SINGS –   

“ THE TIME HAS COME ”

Would NOT like to write any more------ …… !!!!!! …… ??????

Epitabh if it is written it writes and says that-::

Pics :: I’m A “ SONG ” , I LIVE TO Be " SUNG " , I SING WITH ALL MY " HEART " 

That SONG of 1962 has LOST it’s HISTORICAL PLACE as the “ HIS MASTER’S VOICE ” and the “ POLYDOR SANGEET DHARA”  MANUFACTURING THE 45/EP/LP  and the 75  RPM PLAYING RECORD TOO ARE NO MORE ALIVE AND AVAILABLE  IN INDIA

Pics : A 45 RPM Sound Track Record Player  .

I’m hereby putting a picture of those sound track recorders of the sixties and the seventies that was played on the GRAMAPHONE for these modern kids to see and understand it about how it appeared.               

That is it

Regards

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by 

NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing

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