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{{Short description|Chief of Army Staff, India}} | {{Short description|Chief of Army Staff, India}} | ||
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{{Use Indian English|date=October | {{Use Indian English|date=October 2019}} | ||
{{Infobox officeholder | {{Infobox officeholder | ||
| honorific-prefix = [[General (India)|General]] | | honorific-prefix = [[General (India)|General]] | ||
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1906|05|08}} | | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1906|05|08}} | ||
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br>(now in [[Pakistan]])<ref>{{cite web|title=New Director of Military Intelligence: Brigadier Thapar Appointed|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1947-JULY-DEC-MIN-OF-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1947-07-16_314.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=16 July 1947|access-date=18 July | | birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br>(now in [[Pakistan]])<ref>{{cite web|title=New Director of Military Intelligence: Brigadier Thapar Appointed|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1947-JULY-DEC-MIN-OF-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1947-07-16_314.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=16 July 1947|access-date=18 July 2020}}</ref> | ||
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1975|01|23|1906|05|08}} | | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1975|01|23|1906|05|08}} | ||
| death_place = White Gates, [[Chhatarpur]], [[New Delhi]] | | death_place = White Gates, [[Chhatarpur]], [[New Delhi]] | ||
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General Pran Nath Thapar was born at [[Lahore]] into a prominent [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] [[Khatri]] family.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Puri|first=Baij Nath|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ytuAAAAMAAJ|title=The Khatris, a Socio-cultural Study|date=1988|publisher=M.N. Publishers and Distributors|language=en}}</ref> He was the youngest son of Diwan Bahadur Kunj Behari Thapar of [[Lahore]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Why is Karan Thapar complaining? His dynasty holds a key to Lutyens' Delhi|url=https://theprint.in/lutyens-league/why-is-karan-thapar-complaining-his-dynasty-holds-a-key-to-lutyenss-delhi/87308/|last=Nandita Singh|date=2018-07-24|website=ThePrint|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> The journalist [[Karan Thapar]] is his son.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://theprint.in/lutyens-league/why-is-karan-thapar-complaining-his-dynasty-holds-a-key-to-lutyenss-delhi/87308/ | title=Why is Karan Thapar complaining? His dynasty holds a key to Lutyens' Delhi | date=24 July 2018 }}</ref> The historian [[Romila Thapar]] is his niece and the conservationist and tiger expert, [[Valmik Thapar]] is his great nephew. His elder brother was [[Daya Ram Thapar]], an officer in the [[Indian Medical Service]] and later [[Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (India)|Director General Armed Forces Medical Services]]. | General Pran Nath Thapar was born at [[Lahore]] into a prominent [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] [[Khatri]] family.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Puri|first=Baij Nath|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ytuAAAAMAAJ|title=The Khatris, a Socio-cultural Study|date=1988|publisher=M.N. Publishers and Distributors|language=en}}</ref> He was the youngest son of Diwan Bahadur Kunj Behari Thapar of [[Lahore]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Why is Karan Thapar complaining? His dynasty holds a key to Lutyens' Delhi|url=https://theprint.in/lutyens-league/why-is-karan-thapar-complaining-his-dynasty-holds-a-key-to-lutyenss-delhi/87308/|last=Nandita Singh|date=2018-07-24|website=ThePrint|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> The journalist [[Karan Thapar]] is his son.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://theprint.in/lutyens-league/why-is-karan-thapar-complaining-his-dynasty-holds-a-key-to-lutyenss-delhi/87308/ | title=Why is Karan Thapar complaining? His dynasty holds a key to Lutyens' Delhi | date=24 July 2018 }}</ref> The historian [[Romila Thapar]] is his niece and the conservationist and tiger expert, [[Valmik Thapar]] is his great nephew. His elder brother was [[Daya Ram Thapar]], an officer in the [[Indian Medical Service]] and later [[Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (India)|Director General Armed Forces Medical Services]]. | ||
Thapar was distantly related to the Indian Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] through his wife. In March 1936, Thapar married Bimla Bashiram, the eldest daughter of Rai Bahadur Bashiram Sahgal and granddaughter of Rai Bahadur Ramsaran Das. Bimla Thapar was a sister of Gautam Sahgal, whose wife [[Nayantara Sahgal]] was a daughter of [[Vijayalakshmi Pandit]] and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru.<ref name="The Devil's Advocate">{{cite news | title = When the Devil's Advocate has the Last Word |work=The Hindu | url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/when-the-devils-advocate-has-the-last-word/article4799504.ece |date=10 June 2013|access-date = 14 January 2014 | first = Prashant | last = Jha }}</ref><ref name="ThePrint">{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Nandita |title=Why is Karan Thapar complaining? His dynasty holds a key to Lutyens' Delhi |url=https://theprint.in/lutyens-league/why-is-karan-thapar-complaining-his-dynasty-holds-a-key-to-lutyenss-delhi/87308/ |access-date=2 April 2019 |work=The Print |date=2 January | Thapar was distantly related to the Indian Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] through his wife. In March 1936, Thapar married Bimla Bashiram, the eldest daughter of Rai Bahadur Bashiram Sahgal and granddaughter of Rai Bahadur Ramsaran Das. Bimla Thapar was a sister of Gautam Sahgal, whose wife [[Nayantara Sahgal]] was a daughter of [[Vijayalakshmi Pandit]] and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru.<ref name="The Devil's Advocate">{{cite news | title = When the Devil's Advocate has the Last Word |work=The Hindu | url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/when-the-devils-advocate-has-the-last-word/article4799504.ece |date=10 June 2013|access-date = 14 January 2014 | first = Prashant | last = Jha }}</ref><ref name="ThePrint">{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Nandita |title=Why is Karan Thapar complaining? His dynasty holds a key to Lutyens' Delhi |url=https://theprint.in/lutyens-league/why-is-karan-thapar-complaining-his-dynasty-holds-a-key-to-lutyenss-delhi/87308/ |access-date=2 April 2019 |work=The Print |date=2 January 2019}}</ref> General Thapar and Smt. Bimla Thapar had four children, of whom the youngest is the journalist [[Karan Thapar]].{{citation needed|date=October 2019}} | ||
==Career== | ==Career== | ||
After graduating from Government College, Lahore, he trained at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]], passing out on 4 February 1926 as a second lieutenant. He passed out in the same batch as [[K.S. Thimayya]], who also went on to become Chief of the Army Staff.<ref name="commission_Gazette">{{London Gazette|issue=33130|page=888|date=5 February 1926}}</ref> He spent the next year attached to a British Army battalion stationed in India. On 18 April 1927 he was formally appointed to the Indian Army, ranking as a second lieutenant.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33296|page=4721|date=22 July 1927}}</ref> He did his regimental duties with the 2nd battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment for ten years and later attended the staff courses at [[Quetta]] in India and [[Minley Manor]] in England.<ref>[http://indianarmy.nic.in/coas07.html Indian-Army] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201142402/http://indianarmy.nic.in/coas07.html |date=2014-02-01 }}</ref> | After graduating from Government College, Lahore, he trained at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]], passing out on 4 February 1926 as a second lieutenant. He passed out in the same batch as [[K.S. Thimayya]], who also went on to become Chief of the Army Staff.<ref name="commission_Gazette">{{London Gazette|issue=33130|page=888|date=5 February 1926}}</ref> He spent the next year attached to a British Army battalion stationed in India. On 18 April 1927 he was formally appointed to the Indian Army, ranking as a second lieutenant.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33296|page=4721|date=22 July 1927}}</ref> He did his regimental duties with the 2nd battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment for ten years and later attended the staff courses at [[Quetta]] in India and [[Minley Manor]] in England.<ref>[http://indianarmy.nic.in/coas07.html Indian-Army] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201142402/http://indianarmy.nic.in/coas07.html |date=2014-02-01 }}</ref> | ||
He served in Burma during the second World War in 1941 and later in the Middle East and Italy. By October 1942 he was serving on the staff as a brigade major.<ref>Indian Army List October 1942</ref> He was appointed as assistant military secretary in 1945, and commanded the 1st Battalion of the 1st Punjab Regiment in Indonesia in 1946. Subsequently, he went on to serve as the commander of the 161 Indian Infantry Brigade in East Bengal. During the Partition of India, Thapar officiated as the Director of Military Operations and Intelligence.{{citation needed|date=October | He served in Burma during the second World War in 1941 and later in the Middle East and Italy. By October 1942 he was serving on the staff as a brigade major.<ref>Indian Army List October 1942</ref> He was appointed as assistant military secretary in 1945, and commanded the 1st Battalion of the 1st Punjab Regiment in Indonesia in 1946. Subsequently, he went on to serve as the commander of the 161 Indian Infantry Brigade in East Bengal. During the Partition of India, Thapar officiated as the Director of Military Operations and Intelligence.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}} | ||
In November 1947, he was promoted to the acting rank of [[Major general (India)|major general]]. He served as the Chief of the General Staff for a few months and later as Military Secretary until August 1949. He was appointed Master General of the Ordnance on 8 August 1949.<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=1230 |date=3 September 1949 |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> | In November 1947, he was promoted to the acting rank of [[Major general (India)|major general]]. He served as the Chief of the General Staff for a few months and later as Military Secretary until August 1949. He was appointed Master General of the Ordnance on 8 August 1949.<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=1230 |date=3 September 1949 |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> | ||
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==Later life== | ==Later life== | ||
After resigning from the army, he was appointed as Indian Ambassador to [[Afghanistan]] from August 1964 to January 1969. He died on his farm, White Gates, in Chhattarpur, New Delhi, on 23 June 1975 at the age of 69.{{citation needed|date=October | After resigning from the army, he was appointed as Indian Ambassador to [[Afghanistan]] from August 1964 to January 1969. He died on his farm, White Gates, in Chhattarpur, New Delhi, on 23 June 1975 at the age of 69.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}} | ||
==Awards and decorations== | ==Awards and decorations== | ||