The Sino-Indian Boundary Issue continues....

1. Later the Governor of Goa and then of Punjab, he was the architect of India’s

military intervention in the-then East Pakistan in the winter of 1971. As Chief of

Staff of the army’s Eastern Command, he had conceived and planned the military

operation in May 1971. After having prepared the army logistically, he was also greatly responsible for directing and coordinating the progress of the operations, and was personally responsible for converting what was going to be a cease-fire

negotiation in Dhaka [Dacca] into a formal public surrender by the Pakistani

Eastern Army commander, Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi. For this he is held in reverential

regard by the people of Bangladesh.

2. These are, from north to south: In old Amdo, the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous

Prefecture in Gansu Province, and the Ngapa Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in

Sichuan Province; in old Kham the Kanzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture also in

Sichuan Province, and the Dechen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan

Province.

3. Founder-President of the India-China Friendship Association.

4. Maj. Relingnao ‘Bob’ Khating, 1912-1999, born in Ukhrul, Manipur, into the

Tangkhul Naga community, was a batch-mate of Gen. T.N. Raina’s, later to become Army Chief, and Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob’s at the O.T.S., Mhow. He ws

commissioned into the 14th Hyderabad Regiment (which was later renamed the

Kumaon Regiment) and posted to the 7th Battalion then at the regiment’s

Training Centre in Agra, where he served as a Company Officer under the Company Commander, Major K.S. Thimayya, who was later to become Army Chief. While serving in the ‘V’ force in Burma behind the Japanese lines in WW2 he was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry, the Army Chief’s Gallantry

Certificate, and twice Mentioned in Despatches, and was later made a Member of the British Empire (MBE). After the War, Capt. Bob Khating, MC, MBE, was

transferred to the Assam Regiment and joined its 3rd Battalion in Shillong as a

Company Commander.

To be continued...