HIMALAYAN. BLUNDER terlibas) Nam ngũ thit. AL. Thou. The angry truth about India’s nost crushing military disaster. Brig J.P. Dalvi. Foreword by Frank Moraes. Himalayan Blunder has ratings and 72 reviews. Anant said: Just finished Himalayan Blunders written by Brigadier John Dalvi. It was my first book on. This book was written by Brigadier John Parusharam Dalvi, the commander of the ill-fated 7th Indian Infantry Brigade, Indian Army. The motive.
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Himalayan Blunder: The Angry Truth About India’s Most Crushing Military Disaster is Brigadier J. Dalvi’s retelling of the Sino-Indian war that took place in 1962 - a war that India lost. Dalvi fought the war as the Commander of the 7th Infantry Brigade in NEFA (North-East Frontier Agency).
Our action was typical of a weak nation faced by a bby power. Views Read Edit View history. The book is divided into various part: The aftermath of Partition was even worse, when we witnessed the wholesale murders of the Punjab and the reprisals in Bihar and elsewhere. Well, it happens to be blot on our military preparedness. The whole story can never be known unless one has access to the Chinese plans that led up to their final assault.
Himalayan blunder Download himalayan blunder or read online books in PDF, EPUB, Tuebl, and Mobi Format. Click Download or Read Online button to get himalayan blunder book now. This site is like a library, Use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Download or read book entitled Himalayan Blunder by author: J. Dalvi which was release on 22 May 1970 and published by Unknown with total page 423 pages. This book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle Format. Himalayan Blunder was an extremely controversial war memoir penned by Brigadier John Dalvi.It dealt with the causes, consequences and aftermath of the Sino-Indian War of 1962, that ended in Chinese People's Liberation Army inflicting a defeat on India. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.
Nehru should not have appointed him Chief of the Army – the choice was entirely his an. No serious consideration whatsoever was given to the safeguarding of the political frontiers of India.
Himalayan Blunder: The Angry Truth About India’s Most Crushing Military Disaster
He writes about the interference at all levels and the absolute seperation from reality of many Indian Army Generals. Two lessons the author wants to convey t Brigadier Dalvi has written a book analyzing the Chinese invasion of Reading it has been a turbulent journey through the emotions of heart.
Employment after retirement General K. In all humility I can claim that only I am in a position to explain many nagging questions that need explaining, facts that are necessary. It seemed inconceivable that a nation that had itself suffered grievously at the hands of foreign powers, should start trouble for a neighbouring ex-colonial nation.
On the 25th a strong Chinese detachment crossed into our territory, in the Subansiri Frontier Division, at a blunfer south of Migyitun and opened fre at a forward post of byy. The matter was not settled amicably, and this area remained disputed on a matter of detail, without prejudice to the larger issue of the legality of the McMahon Line. Even if the political assumptions were valid, it would still have been prudent on our part to embark on a phased programme of modernisation of military equipment and reorientating our planning and training.
If we had any National Bluneer and National Aim we would have appreciated the futility of sending our men into the wilderness of NEFA, without a purpose and without a military task. His final summing up was that China might be behaving crudely but legally she was exer- cising her traditional rights and jurisdiction. Ina Tibetan trade mission travelled abroad on Tibetan and not Chinese passports. There were many errant civil servants and military officers who had not achieved enough dali to get involved in the post-mortems, and who went on to higher ranks.
Still a good one to read and have at shelves. This should be recommended reading for those in political power today. The supply lines were bimalayan absent in the war zone because of which our army had to rely on air droppings, which maximum times use to land in enemy’s area or use to fall in the valley. Karam singh was taken as a war prisoner. At times we feel emotional.
Himalayan Blunder was an extremely controversial war memoir penned by Brigadier John Dalvi. Nehru Takes Over -2nd October We did not evaluate the long-term implications of this, and continued to rely on Western impartiality and U.
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Defence was relegated to the lowest priority in the national effort. There is one last comment that must be made.
Indian border posts had to encounter tremendous natural obstacles. The Army did not share the complacency’ of the country and were wary of the Chinese. Yet there were moments of briv too for the Indian Army but it got a battering after having come out of Second Himallayan War in ’45 with flying colours. Nehru disdainfully declined the offer. After 10th Octobereverything changed Chinese finally attacked and killed Indian Soldiers who were short of Ammunition and communication.
Himalayan Blunder: The Angry Truth About India’s Most Crushing Military Disaster by J.P. Dalvi
Clearly the people were not prepared for war and its horrors. Joe loved India and had volunteered to stay on after the departure of the British, to start the Staff College, which till today is a monument to his professional skill and dedicated work.
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This book was originally written by brigadier Jhon.P.Dhalavi, unfortunately I didn’t had the chance of reading this original book, as it was banned by then congress government for there political reasons.
But I did have a chance of reading this book, a translated version by Ravi Belagare(Kannada).
As I read this book, my hate rate against these politicians grew by one more inch, and how can I bring out my frustration..? There was one way for me, i.e. to write a post on it, and let the reader know about this.
The author tells the facts which was suppressed by the politicians. This book is a war report, telling the story of the facts which led to indo-Sino war, and the reasons behind our defeat.
Indo-Sino war remains as a black spot in our glorious history, and yet the people responsible for it are treated as great Heros of our country, will mother India ever forgive these so called (un)great people….?
Here is the list of persons who are responsible for our defeat in indo-Sino war.
1>Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister of India)
2> A.C Menon (Defense Minister).
3> Thapar (Army Chief).
In 1950 , India and china signed a “Pansheela” Treaty, and accordingly agreed that no one will initiate the war against each other, with it came the saying Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai.(हिंदी चीनी भाई-भाई ),it was this treaty which china utilized to break the back door of India, by attacking the NFEA border and taking most part of it.
This war didn’t happen in a day, it took complete 10 years for them to plan this attack, and what were our politicians doing all these years…?.As china was getting prepared for this war, were they sleeping..?.
No they didn’t, they had complete information about Chinese preparation, but still they didn’t take any action, why so? its because they had a blind trust on “Pansheela” treaty.
When china attacked Tibet in 1950, it was the right time for Indian politicians to open there eyes and see what is happening in its border, but they didn’t, they took this matter as an internal mater of china, and ironically china used Tibet as there war base in Indo-Sino war.
When china attacked Tibet, India could (Should) have attacked china and get them out of Tibet, but they failed to do so. In fact that was the right time to attack, as china was still recovering from China-Korea war, were they suffered heavy losses.
China constructed war bunkers, well established communications lines, roads along the border lines of Tibet, this was a clear indication that china was preparing for something, something very big, but still these politicians were more interested to grow as a international hero at the cost of there county.
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Ironically when the first spark of the war started, our leaders were on there foreign trips, on big podiums, giving big speeches, and trying to grow as international leaders, what an irony…?He didn’t have warm cloths, snow shoes and not even enough artillery; he was just left at the mercy of Chinese. This was the state of the Indian soldier, fighting for the pride of India. Who was responsible for this? It was these leaders.
Government funds were diverted to other projects, and the army needs were just not considered, they just thought that it was unnecessary to spend on army needs, how can a country develop without having a strong border gates…?.
Wrong decisions were taken at wrong moments….
Forward policy was a classic example for this; this policy was brought into act by then congress government. This policy was all about establishing forward post along the NFEA Border, this was the death blow for Indian army, and this was the spark which triggered the fire of Indo-Sino war.
Around 1500 army persons died, they didn’t event get a proper cremation, there was no one to cry for them.
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Who was responsible for all this…? , yes it was our then PM and his ministers….It’s no difference then and now, we have same breed of politicians, who always bring wrong policies just to keep some set of people happy, no matter if it’s at the cost of our country.