S. P. P. Thorat
Shankarrao Pandurang Patil Thorat (born 12 August 1906) is an Indian Army former Lieutenant General who led the Eastern Command in the lead up to the 1962 Sino-Indian War.[1]
He was born on 12 August 1906, in Vadgaon village in the erstwhile princely state of Kolhapur.
During World War II, Colonel Thorat commanded battalion-level formations fighting against Japanese forces.[2]
Works
- From Reveille to Retreat (1986). Allied Publishers. ISBN 978-8-17023-077-9.
References
- ↑ Sawant, Gaurav C. (18 October 2012). "Lt-General Thorat's 1962 China warning fell on deaf ears". Daily Mail. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ↑ Barua, Pradeep (2003). Gentlemen of the Raj: The Indian Army Officer Corps. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-27597-999-7.
External links
- "The Two Myths of 1962". Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. 31 October 2012.
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