Adjutant-General (India)

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The Adjutant-General of the Indian Army is the senior administration officer who reports to the Chief of Army Staff and is also the Colonel of the Corps of Military Police and Judge Advocate General. [1]

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Role, organisation and function

The office of the Adjutant General deals with a wide spectrum of issues relating to Army, which includes manpower planning, human resource policy, recruitment, discipline, matters relating to Judge Advocate General's Department, Provost Marshal Directorate (Corps of Military Police), missing defence personnel, service matters relating to personnel and welfare of serving soldiers. [2]

The Adjutant-General's office is organised as follows: [3] [4]

Adjutants-General prior to Independence

Adjutants-General before the independence of India have included:

RankNameAppointment DateLeft OfficeReferences
Colonel Sir Henry George Smith 6 March 18407 April 1846 [5]
Colonel Charles Robert Cureton 7 April 184622 November 1848 [6]
Colonel Armine Simcoe Henry Mountain 2 February 18498 February 1854 [7]
Colonel Frederick Markham 7 April 185428 November 1854 [8]
Colonel Henry Havelock 28 November 185430 July 1857 [9]
ColonelSir Edward Lugard 31 July 185722 October 1858 [10]
ColonelThe Hon. William Lygon Pakenham 22 October 18581860 [11]
Colonel Edmund Haythorne 22 June 1860Jan 1866 [12]
Colonel Henry Errington Longden Jan 1866Mar 1869
Major-General The Hon. Frederic Augustus Thesiger Mar 1869Mar 1874
Major-General Edwin Beaumont Johnson Mar 1874Sep 1874
Major-GeneralSir Peter Stark Lumsden Sep 1874Oct 1879
Major-GeneralSir George Richards Greaves Oct 1879Nov 1884
Major-GeneralSir Thomas Durand Baker Nov 1884Feb 1887
Major-General William Kidston Elles Feb 1887Oct 1890
Major-General William Galbraith Oct 1890Apr 1895
Major-General Gerald de Courcy Morton Apr 1895Nov 1898
Major-General Sir William Nicholson 4 Nov 18989 Nov 1901
Major-General Sir Edmond Elles (acting Adjutant-General)4 Jan 1900Apr 1901 [13]
Major-General Beauchamp Duff (acting Adjutant-General)Apr 1901Nov 1901
Major-General Horace Smith-Dorrien 9 Nov 1901Jun 1903 [14]
Major-General Beauchamp Duff Jun 1903Mar 1906
Major-General Alfred Martin Apr 1906May 1908
Major-General Robert Scallon Jun 1908Mar 1909
Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Barrett Apr 1909Feb 1912
Major-General Fenton Aylmer Mar 1912Nov 1915
Major-General John Walter Nov 1915Feb 1917
Lieutenant-General Sir Havelock Hudson Feb 1917Nov 1920
Lieutenant-General Sir Walter Delamain Nov 1920Mar 1923
Lieutenant-General Sir George Barrow Mar 1923Feb 1924
General Sir John Shea Feb 1924May 1928
General Sir Robert Cassels May 1928May 1930
General Sir Norman MacMullen May 1930Apr 1932
General Sir Walter Leslie Apr 1932Apr 1936
Lieutenant-General Sir John Brind Apr 1936Oct 1937
General Sir Roger Wilson Oct 1937Mar 1941
Lieutenant-General Brodie Haig May 1941Oct 1941
Lieutenant-General Sir William Baker Oct 1941Mar 1944
Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Deedes Mar 1944Mar 1946
Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Savory Mar 19461947 [15]

Adjutants-General after Independence

Adjutants-General after independence have included:

RankNameAppointment DateLeft OfficeUnit of CommissionReferences
Major General Hira Lal Atal 16th Light Cavalry [16] [17]
S M Shrinagesh January 1948August 1948 19th Hyderabad Regiment [18]
Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri January 1952January 1953 7th Light Cavalry [19]
Lieutenant General Kanwar Bahadur Singh 1 October 1959 19th Hyderabad Regiment [16] [20]
P P Kumaramangalam 5 October 195930 April 1963 Regiment of Artillery [21]
Kashmir Singh Katoch 1 May 1963November 1963 East Surrey Regiment [22]
Har PrasadDecember 1970 3rd Cavalry [23]
Har Krishen SibalDecember 1970June 1972 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) [23]
Srinivas Kumar Sinha July 1980 Jat Regiment [24]
K BalaramJuly 1985 Corps of Signals
SK Mazumdar1988 Bengal Sappers
Manohar Lal Chibber 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) [25]
Bhartruhari Trimbak Pandit1990March 1992 Corps of Engineers [26] [27]
R V KulkarniMarch 1992April 1993 Garhwal Rifles [28]
Madan Mohan Lakhera June 1993October 1995 Kumaon Regiment [16] [29]
Krishna Mohan Seth October 199531 December 1997 Regiment of Artillery [30]
S S Grewal1 January 199830 April 2002 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles [31]
A Natarajan1 May 200231 January 2004 Regiment of Artillery [32]
Mohinder Singh3 February 200430 October 2005 Punjab Regiment [33]
A S Jamwal31 October 200531 August 2006 Regiment of Artillery [34] [35]
Thomas Mathew1 September 2006January 2009 Rajput Regiment [34] [36]
Mukesh SabharwalJanuary 20092011 Rajput Regiment [37] [38]
Jai Prakash Nehra2011May 2013 Madras Regiment [39] [40]
Sanjeev Anand20132014 Mechanised Infantry Regiment [41] [42]
Gurmit SinghJuly 20142015 Assam Regiment [43]
Rakesh Sharma2015March 2017 11th Gorkha Rifles [44]
Ashwani Kumar 201731 October 2019 Corps of Army Air Defence [45]
Arvind Dutta1 January 2020November 2020 Dogra Regiment [46]
Harsha GuptaDecember 2020March 2022 Sikh Light Infantry [47]
Bansi Ponnappa April 202231 July 2024 Mahar Regiment [48]
VPS Kaushik3 August 2024Incumbent Kumaon Regiment [49]

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