CLASS 10
GLIMPSES OF INDIA
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Question
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General Cariappa
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General Lokesh
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General Cadappa
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, byname Kipper, (born January 28, 1899, Shanivarsanthe, Coorg district, Mysore [now Kodagu district, Karnataka state], India-died May 15, 1993, Bangalore), Indian military officer and the first chief of staff of the Indian army after India became independent of Great Britain.
Detailed explanation-2: -Born on 28 Jan 1899 at Shanivarsante in Kodugu (Coorg) in the erstwhile State of Coorg in Karnataka, Field Marshal KM Cariappa was commissioned into the Carnatic Infantry in 1919 and went on to become the first Indian Commander –in – Chief of Indian Army on 15 Jan 1949.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chief of the Army Staff 1. General Manoj Pande, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, was commissioned in December 1982 in the Corps of Engineers (The Bombay Sappers).
Detailed explanation-4: -Cariappa, the first Indian Army Commander-in-Chief. Air Marshal Cariappa was a squadron leader with No. 20 Squadron during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965.