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Defence Ministry were previously in the dark, namely the Department of Atomic Energy's plans to detonate a nuclear device. The project
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holding Barmer and Kutch. In addition it was supported by an armoured regiment, two independent armoured squadrons, and one missile squadron. For his command of operations in the
Rajasthan Sector, Bewoor was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour.
572:. He was appointed as the Director, Personnel Services at Army HQ in August 1953, and was promoted to substantive colonel on 30 August 1956. The following year, on 4 June 1957, he was again promoted to acting brigadier and given command of an infantry brigade.
654:. The task of sinking the shaft for the test was assigned to the 61 Engineering Regiment stationed in Jodhpur. Ramanna first contacted the regiment commander, Lt. Col. Subherwal, in May 1973 to dig the shaft. In June 1973 Prime Minister
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General Bewoor into confidence and ordered him to support the project. After an initial setback - the finding of water at the first drill site - the location of the test was shifted to the village of Malki near
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heavy-lift military transport aircraft. His younger son, Keshav Bewoor, is also an Air Force officer, and retired from service in the rank of Air Vice Marshal.
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1650:"India's Nuclear Weapons Program: Smiling Buddha: 1974"
1869:. The Gazette of India. 17 February 1973. p. 218.
1852:. The Gazette of India. 19 December 1964. p. 509.
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1864:"Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch)"
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1824:. The Gazette of India. 10 October 1953. p. 222.
1819:"Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch)"
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1621:. The Gazette of India. 31 October 1959. p. 266.
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1536:"Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch)"
1581:. The Gazette of India. 10 August 1957. p. 194.
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1957 play तुझे आहे तुजपाशी ("Tujhe Ahe Tujapashi").
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1561:. The Gazette of India. 20 April 1957. p. 97.
1518:The Illustrated Weekly of India, Volume 95, Part 4
488:family. Gopal Gurunath Bewoor was the son of Sir
4523:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in civil service
412:(11 August 1916 – 24 October 1989) was a senior
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469:the third highest Indian civilian award.
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1681:. Pearson Education India. p. 128.
1416:Singh, Bikram; Mishra, Sidharth (1997).
1323:. As a result, the rank insignia of the
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443:as well as effectively commanding the
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4231:Ronald Carlton Vivian Piadade Noronha
2851:Surrender of Pakistan Eastern Command
1731:The Maharashtra State Women's Council
1391:"General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, PVSM"
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1968:General Officer Commanding-in-Chief
4528:Deputy chiefs of Army Staff (India)
3538:Anant alias Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe
2592:Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam
1796:from the original on 8 August 2017.
1351:became Commander-in-Chief, and the
1339:remained Commander-in-Chief of the
587:. Later he moved this division to
79:16 Jan 1973 – 31 May 1975
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1702:Kamath, Vinay (4 February 2009).
520:Bewoor was commissioned a second
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465:In 1972, he was honoured with
131:General Tapishwar Narain Raina
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3815:Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani
3719:Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai
3468:T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar
1884:Wilkinson, Steven I. (2015),
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1037:30 August 1944 (substantive)
4488:Chiefs of Army Staff (India)
4483:British Indian Army officers
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3435:award recipients (1970–1979)
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2527:Chief of the Army Staff and
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1059:16 August 1942 (temporary)
918:20 Years Long Service Medal
67:Chief of Army Staff (India)
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4140:Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia
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3863:Dattatraya Yeshwant Phadke
3780:Gulestan Rustom Billimoria
3734:Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme
3382:Captain Mohiuddin Jahangir
2823:Research and Analysis Wing
2766:Indo-Pakistani war of 1971
2577:Kodandera Subayya Thimayya
2118:Kodandera Subayya Thimayya
1675:Parthasarathi, A. (2007).
1335:("pip"), was retained, as
923:9 Years Long Service Medal
616:Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
595:) in the wake of the 1962
426:Indian diplomat to Denmark
283:15 July 1937 - 31 May 1975
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3785:Kunhiraman Palat Candeth
3699:Kalindi Charan Panigrahi
3694:Bishnupada Mukhopadhyaya
3684:Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta
3604:Kandathil Mammen Cherian
3548:Viswanatha Satyanarayana
3488:Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar
3387:Lance Naik Noor Mohammad
3291:Fl. Off. N. J. S. Sekhon
2813:1971 Bangladesh genocide
2657:Sundararajan Padmanabhan
2637:Sunith Francis Rodrigues
2558:Chief of the Army Staff
2343:Norman Anil Kumar Browne
2288:Sundararajan Padmanabhan
2243:Sunith Francis Rodrigues
1736:16 December 2010 at the
1265:7 November 1964 (acting)
694:and saw action with the
556:Promoted to general rank
486:Deshastha Madhva Brahmin
481:on 11 August 1916 into
4413:# Posthumous conferral
4272:Naoroji Pirojsha Godrej
4044:Vennelakanti Raghavayya
3883:Mohinder Singh Randhawa
3790:Ram Narayan Chakravarti
3724:Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
3714:Krishnarao Phulambrikar
3334:J/Swr. Muhammad Hussain
3324:Plt. Off. Rashid Minhas
2531:Indian Army (1948–1955)
2495:Indian Army (1947–1948)
2482:Chief of the Army Staff
2198:Ronald Lynsdale Pereira
1321:Commonwealth of Nations
1101:December 1947 (acting)
1031:15 August 1940 (acting)
510:Indian Military Academy
439:, including during the
4317:E. C. George Sudarshan
4257:Harivansh Rai Bachchan
4216:Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi
4155:Arunachala Sreenivasan
4085:Dhirendra Nath Ganguly
4004:M. A. Muthiah Chettiar
3873:Tapishwar Narain Raina
3629:Musiri Subramania Iyer
3357:Flt. Lt. Matiur Rahman
3296:2nd Lt. Arun Khetarpal
3000:War Enquiry Commission
2667:Joginder Jaswant Singh
2607:Tapishwar Narain Raina
2587:Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri
2318:Joginder Jaswant Singh
2233:Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni
2173:Tapishwar Narain Raina
2138:Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri
2133:Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman
2064:Chief of Defence Staff
1954:Tapishwar Narain Raina
1654:Nuclear Weapon Archive
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732:Awards and decorations
631:As Chief of Army Staff
609:DRDO Anti Tank Missile
508:in 1928 and later the
420:who served as the 8th
4297:Udupi Ramachandra Rao
4110:Jayant Pandurang Naik
3999:Banarsidas Chaturvedi
3893:M. B. Ramachandra Rao
3858:Vinayakrao Patwardhan
3805:Minoo Merwan Engineer
3775:Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
3749:Parmeshwari Lal Verma
3744:Bhagwati Charan Verma
3362:Sepahi Hamidur Rahman
3339:L/Nk. Muhammad Mahfuz
3235:A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman
3220:Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
3073:Minoo Merwan Engineer
3058:Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
2697:Manoj Mukund Naravane
2627:Krishnaswamy Sundarji
2602:Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
2567:Rajendrasinhji Jadeja
2549:Rajendrasinhji Jadeja
2544:Kodandera M. Cariappa
2363:Birender Singh Dhanoa
2263:Vijai Singh Shekhawat
2178:Hrushikesh Moolgavkar
2158:Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
2148:Adhar Kumar Chatterji
891:Special Service Medal
407:Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
280:Years of service
4277:Zehra Ali Yavar Jung
4196:Pratul Chandra Gupta
4191:Madhav Sadashiv Gore
4181:Dilbagh Singh Athwal
3963:Bal Dattatreya Tilak
3825:Sourendra Nath Kohli
3518:Mahesh Prasad Mehray
3367:Sepahi Mostafa Kamal
3063:Sourendra Nath Kohli
2647:Shankar Roychowdhury
2642:Bipin Chandra Joshi
2622:Arun Shridhar Vaidya
2612:Om Prakash Malhotra
2529:Commander-in-Chief,
2493:Commander-in-Chief,
2440:British Armed Forces
2313:Shashindra Pal Tyagi
2268:Shankar Roychowdhury
2218:Arun Shridhar Vaidya
2213:Oscar Stanley Dawson
2168:Sourendra Nath Kohli
1327:, incorporating the
1221:4 June 1957 (acting)
1121:April 1948 (acting)
718:Samyukta Maharashtra
550:National Cadet Corps
530:10th Baluch Regiment
473:Family and education
357:27 Infantry Division
326:10th Baluch Regiment
92:Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
4373:K. S. Narayanaswamy
4226:Kirpal Singh Narang
4211:Pancheti Koteswaram
3938:Birendranath Sircar
3848:N. G. Krishna Murti
3810:Inderjit Singh Gill
3765:Jagjit Singh Aurora
3639:Mungtu Ram Jaipuria
3533:Krishnaswami Ramiah
3513:Bhagwantrao Mandloi
3329:Maj. Shabbir Sharif
3319:Maj. Muhammad Akram
3230:Muhammad Mansur Ali
3144:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
3103:Inderjit Singh Gill
3048:Jagjit Singh Aurora
2990:Ahsan–Yaqub Mission
2900:Battle of Longewala
2790:Indo-Pakistani wars
2785:History of Pakistan
2333:Pradeep Vasant Naik
2253:Bipin Chandra Joshi
2248:Laxminarayan Ramdas
2188:Om Prakash Malhotra
2090:Sir Thomas Elmhirst
2068:Indian Armed Forces
1944:Chief of Army Staff
1341:Indian Armed Forces
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1267:1965 (substantive)
1245:1962 (substantive)
1054:British Indian Army
1028:British Indian Army
1008:British Indian Army
987:British Indian Army
945:India Service Medal
940:War Medal 1939–1945
722:Prahlad Keshav Atre
422:Chief of Army Staff
359:80 Infantry Brigade
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4282:Mallikarjun Mansur
4252:Malcolm Adiseshiah
3968:Syed Husain Zaheer
3913:Shantilal C. Sheth
3835:Nilakanta Krishnan
3820:L. A. Krishna Iyer
3795:Yashodhara Dasappa
3739:Pichu Sambamoorthi
3729:Suresh Chandra Roy
3669:Nisar Hussain Khan
3584:N. Ramaswami Ayyar
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3473:Lala Hansraj Gupta
3301:Maj. Hoshiar Singh
3068:Nilakanta Krishnan
2920:Battle of Basantar
2910:Meghna Heli Bridge
2882:Battle of Garibpur
2836:Indo-Soviet Treaty
2780:Partition of India
2722:Seconded from the
2662:Nirmal Chander Vij
2652:Ved Prakash Malik
2632:Vishwa Nath Sharma
2438:Seconded from the
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2303:Nirmal Chander Vij
2014:Feb 1976–Feb 1978
1454:on 15 October 2015
1349:President of India
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674:University of Pune
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3933:Sagat Singh
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3558:N. M. Wagle
3118:S. H. Sarma
3088:T. N. Raina
3083:Sagat Singh
3038:S. M. Nanda
2807:Searchlight
2800:War of 1965
2710:(incumbent)
2702:Manoj Pande
2692:Bipin Rawat
2486:Indian Army
2402:(2021–2022)
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2388:(2020–2021)
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2077:(1947–2019)
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