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Staff (DCOAS), to which he had been appointed on 27 April, and held that appointment till June 1969. As DCOAS, he was awarded Param
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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.
561:. 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.
643:. 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
525:. His seniority as a second lieutenant was antedated to 30 August 1936 and he was promoted lieutenant 30 November 1938. In July 1945, he was transferred from the 5th Baluch and went on to attend the Staff College course at
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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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1853:"Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch)"
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1610:. The Gazette of India. 31 October 1959. p. 266.
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1570:. 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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1769:"New Designs of Crests and Badges in the Services"
1627:. The Gazette of India. 15 April 1961. p. 97.
1550:. The Gazette of India. 20 April 1957. p. 97.
1507:The Illustrated Weekly of India, Volume 95, Part 4
477:family. Gopal Gurunath Bewoor was the son of Sir
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521:(now 12 Baloch), with which he saw action
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458:the third highest Indian civilian award.
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1405:Singh, Bikram; Mishra, Sidharth (1997).
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1720:The Maharashtra State Women's Council
1380:"General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, PVSM"
2389:Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee
1957:General Officer Commanding-in-Chief
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4517:Deputy chiefs of Army Staff (India)
3527:Anant alias Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe
2581:Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam
1785:from the original on 8 August 2017.
1340:became Commander-in-Chief, and the
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3804:Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani
3708:Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai
3457:T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar
1873:Wilkinson, Steven I. (2015),
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4119:Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan
3424:award recipients (1970–1979)
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2516:Chief of the Army Staff and
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3769:Gulestan Rustom Billimoria
3723:Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme
3371:Captain Mohiuddin Jahangir
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2755:Indo-Pakistani war of 1971
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2107:Kodandera Subayya Thimayya
1664:Parthasarathi, A. (2007).
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4195:Darab Jehangir Jussawala
3897:Khusro Faramurz Rustamji
3774:Kunhiraman Palat Candeth
3688:Kalindi Charan Panigrahi
3683:Bishnupada Mukhopadhyaya
3673:Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta
3593:Kandathil Mammen Cherian
3537:Viswanatha Satyanarayana
3477:Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar
3376:Lance Naik Noor Mohammad
3280:Fl. Off. N. J. S. Sekhon
2802:1971 Bangladesh genocide
2646:Sundararajan Padmanabhan
2626:Sunith Francis Rodrigues
2547:Chief of the Army Staff
2332:Norman Anil Kumar Browne
2277:Sundararajan Padmanabhan
2232:Sunith Francis Rodrigues
1725:16 December 2010 at the
1284:
1254:7 November 1964 (acting)
683:and saw action with the
545:Promoted to general rank
475:Deshastha Madhva Brahmin
470:on 11 August 1916 into
4402:# Posthumous conferral
4261:Naoroji Pirojsha Godrej
4033:Vennelakanti Raghavayya
3872:Mohinder Singh Randhawa
3779:Ram Narayan Chakravarti
3713:Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
3703:Krishnarao Phulambrikar
3323:J/Swr. Muhammad Hussain
3313:Plt. Off. Rashid Minhas
2520:Indian Army (1948–1955)
2484:Indian Army (1947–1948)
2471:Chief of the Army Staff
2187:Ronald Lynsdale Pereira
1310:Commonwealth of Nations
1090:December 1947 (acting)
1020:15 August 1940 (acting)
499:Indian Military Academy
428:, including during the
4306:E. C. George Sudarshan
4246:Harivansh Rai Bachchan
4205:Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi
4144:Arunachala Sreenivasan
4074:Dhirendra Nath Ganguly
3993:M. A. Muthiah Chettiar
3862:Tapishwar Narain Raina
3618:Musiri Subramania Iyer
3346:Flt. Lt. Matiur Rahman
3285:2nd Lt. Arun Khetarpal
2989:War Enquiry Commission
2656:Joginder Jaswant Singh
2596:Tapishwar Narain Raina
2576:Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri
2307:Joginder Jaswant Singh
2222:Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni
2162:Tapishwar Narain Raina
2127:Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri
2122:Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman
2053:Chief of Defence Staff
1943:Tapishwar Narain Raina
1643:Nuclear Weapon Archive
1504:Pritish Nandy (1974).
721:Awards and decorations
620:As Chief of Army Staff
598:DRDO Anti Tank Missile
497:in 1928 and later the
409:who served as the 8th
4286:Udupi Ramachandra Rao
4099:Jayant Pandurang Naik
3988:Banarsidas Chaturvedi
3882:M. B. Ramachandra Rao
3847:Vinayakrao Patwardhan
3794:Minoo Merwan Engineer
3764:Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
3738:Parmeshwari Lal Verma
3733:Bhagwati Charan Verma
3351:Sepahi Hamidur Rahman
3328:L/Nk. Muhammad Mahfuz
3224:A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman
3209:Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
3062:Minoo Merwan Engineer
3047:Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
2686:Manoj Mukund Naravane
2616:Krishnaswamy Sundarji
2591:Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
2556:Rajendrasinhji Jadeja
2538:Rajendrasinhji Jadeja
2533:Kodandera M. Cariappa
2352:Birender Singh Dhanoa
2252:Vijai Singh Shekhawat
2167:Hrushikesh Moolgavkar
2147:Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
2137:Adhar Kumar Chatterji
880:Special Service Medal
396:Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
269:Years of service
4266:Zehra Ali Yavar Jung
4185:Pratul Chandra Gupta
4180:Madhav Sadashiv Gore
4170:Dilbagh Singh Athwal
3952:Bal Dattatreya Tilak
3814:Sourendra Nath Kohli
3507:Mahesh Prasad Mehray
3356:Sepahi Mostafa Kamal
3052:Sourendra Nath Kohli
2636:Shankar Roychowdhury
2631:Bipin Chandra Joshi
2611:Arun Shridhar Vaidya
2601:Om Prakash Malhotra
2518:Commander-in-Chief,
2482:Commander-in-Chief,
2429:British Armed Forces
2302:Shashindra Pal Tyagi
2257:Shankar Roychowdhury
2207:Arun Shridhar Vaidya
2202:Oscar Stanley Dawson
2157:Sourendra Nath Kohli
1316:, incorporating the
1210:4 June 1957 (acting)
1110:April 1948 (acting)
707:Samyukta Maharashtra
539:National Cadet Corps
519:10th Baluch Regiment
462:Family and education
346:27 Infantry Division
315:10th Baluch Regiment
81:Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
4362:K. S. Narayanaswamy
4215:Kirpal Singh Narang
4200:Pancheti Koteswaram
3927:Birendranath Sircar
3837:N. G. Krishna Murti
3799:Inderjit Singh Gill
3754:Jagjit Singh Aurora
3628:Mungtu Ram Jaipuria
3522:Krishnaswami Ramiah
3502:Bhagwantrao Mandloi
3318:Maj. Shabbir Sharif
3308:Maj. Muhammad Akram
3219:Muhammad Mansur Ali
3133:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
3092:Inderjit Singh Gill
3037:Jagjit Singh Aurora
2979:Ahsan–Yaqub Mission
2889:Battle of Longewala
2779:Indo-Pakistani wars
2774:History of Pakistan
2322:Pradeep Vasant Naik
2242:Bipin Chandra Joshi
2237:Laxminarayan Ramdas
2177:Om Prakash Malhotra
2079:Sir Thomas Elmhirst
2057:Indian Armed Forces
1933:Chief of Army Staff
1330:Indian Armed Forces
1308:within the British
1256:1965 (substantive)
1234:1962 (substantive)
1043:British Indian Army
1017:British Indian Army
997:British Indian Army
976:British Indian Army
934:India Service Medal
929:War Medal 1939–1945
711:Prahlad Keshav Atre
411:Chief of Army Staff
348:80 Infantry Brigade
251:British Indian Army
16:Indian Army general
4327:Prithvi Singh Azad
4271:Mallikarjun Mansur
4241:Malcolm Adiseshiah
3957:Syed Husain Zaheer
3902:Shantilal C. Sheth
3824:Nilakanta Krishnan
3809:L. A. Krishna Iyer
3784:Yashodhara Dasappa
3728:Pichu Sambamoorthi
3718:Suresh Chandra Roy
3658:Nisar Hussain Khan
3573:N. Ramaswami Ayyar
3542:Ahmed Jan Thirakwa
3462:Lala Hansraj Gupta
3290:Maj. Hoshiar Singh
3057:Nilakanta Krishnan
2909:Battle of Basantar
2899:Meghna Heli Bridge
2871:Battle of Garibpur
2825:Indo-Soviet Treaty
2769:Partition of India
2711:Seconded from the
2651:Nirmal Chander Vij
2641:Ved Prakash Malik
2621:Vishwa Nath Sharma
2427:Seconded from the
2327:Nirmal Kumar Verma
2292:Nirmal Chander Vij
2003:Feb 1976–Feb 1978
1443:on 15 October 2015
1338:President of India
1247:Lieutenant-General
1161:Lieutenant-Colonel
1081:Lieutenant-Colonel
663:University of Pune
430:second war in 1965
350:Director General,
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4372:Perugu Siva Reddy
4149:Raman Viswanathan
3942:M. S. Swaminathan
3892:Sujoy Bhushan Roy
3693:Manibhai J. Patel
3663:Guru Kunchu Kurup
3623:Palghat Mani Iyer
3588:Jaishankar Bhojak
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2217:Denis La Fontaine
2192:K. V. Krishna Rao
2182:Idris Hasan Latif
2096:Sir Charles Pizey
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1974:Diplomatic posts
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4094:Mogubai Kurdikar
4084:V. S. Huzurbazar
4069:Ram Kumar Caroli
3912:Khem Karan Singh
3877:Adya Rangacharya
3832:Pran Nath Luthra
3789:Hari Chand Dewan
3678:Ved Rattan Mohan
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3107:S. H. Sarma
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