Everything about Field Marshal India totally explained
Field Marshal is the highest possible rank in the military of
India. Only two Army appointments have been made by the Government of
India since independence in 1947. The rank of
Field Marshal though, existed in the old
Indian Army.
Independent India's first, and only active Field Marshal (appointed when in service), was the then
Chief of Army Staff Gen. Sam Manekshaw. A much admired and decorated
World War 2 officer he was conferred the rank in
1973 by the
Indira Gandhi-led government, largely in recognition of his sterling leadership during the
Indo-Pak war of 1971. He is seen as being principally responsible, in a military sense, for an Indian victory in that war, and for the subsequent creation of
Bangladesh.
Later, the first Indian officer to be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Armed Forces (see
Indian Military),
Gen. K.M. Cariappa was awarded the honorary rank of Field Marshal in
1983. Cariappa had many firsts to his name in the Indian Army's annals and had led the force in the
1947 conflict with
Pakistan over
Kashmir. He was also the officer tasked by India with overseeing the equitable division of the Royal Indian Army into two new forces and laid down much of the structure of the modern Indian Army.
In
2002, the government conferred the
Indian Air Force's equivalent rank of
Marshal of the Air Force on Air Chief Marshal
Arjan Singh in recognition of both, his service in building the Force, and for his astute helmsmanship of the IAF in the
1965 India-Pakistan conflict. He was also the first officer promoted to
Air Chief Marshal (India) in the IAF. All previous Indian
Chief of Air Staff (India) had been
Air Marshals.
While the provision for the rank of
Admiral of the Fleet exists, no officer of the
Indian Navy has yet been conferred an equivalent rank.
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