Srinivas Kumar Sinha

Srinivas Kumar Sinha

Lieutenant General (Retd.) Srinivas Kumar Sinha, PVSM (born 1926) is an Indian soldier. After his retirement, he served as Governor of the states of Jammu and Kashmir and Assam.

Early life

Sinha graduated with Honours from Patna University in 1943 at the young age of 17. He joined the Indian army soon thereafter, passing out as the Best Cadet from the Officers' Training School, Belgaum, the war time equivalent of the Sword of Honour. He saw combat service during the Second World War in Burma and Indonesia and, after India became independent, in Kashmir. He served two tenures in Nagaland and Manipur taking part in counter insurgency operations.

Army career

In 1953, General Sinha secured the top position at the Defence Services Staff College in India and in 1962 again, at the Joint Services Staff College in the United Kingdom. He held all levels of active command in the Army from a platoon to a field army. He commanded a battalion in Ladakh, a brigade in Manipur, a mountain division in Assam, an infantry division in Jammu, a corps in the Punjab and a field Army in the Western Theatre. He held key staff and instructional appointments. He served as Director, Military Intelligence, Adjutant General and Vice Chief of Army Staff at Army Headquarters. He also served as an instructor at Mhow and Staff College, Wellington. In 1949, he was appointed Secretary of the Indian delegation on delineation of the Cease Fire Line in Kashmir at a meeting convened by the United Nations. He led the Indian delegation to Italy in 1972 for a conference on application of human rights to warfare. He was awarded the Param Vishist Sewa Medal in 1973. He was made Honorary ADC to the President of India and also President of the Gorkha Brigade. General Sinha also was responsible for the production of the Army's representation to the Pay commission, where he put forth a forceful and insightful report. In a publication in the United States of America by the noted South Asian expert, Stephen Cohen, he has been referred to as one of India’s most outstanding post-independence generals. He sought premature retirement from the Army in 1983.

Ambassador to Nepal

In 1990 General Sinha was appointed India’s Ambassador to Nepal, when autocratic rule prevailed in that country and bilateral relations with India had hit their nadir in the wake of the trade and transit impasse of 1989. During his tenure in Nepal, democracy was restored in Nepal and India-Nepal relations were raised to a high level of cordiality. The Prime Minister of India stated that General Sinha had played a major role in this happy development. The Prime Minister of Nepal wrote, "General Sinha was as much India’s Ambassador to Nepal as Nepal’s Ambassador to India".

Governor of Assam

In 1997 General Sinha was appointed Governor of Assam at a time when insurgency in that state was at its peak. He crafted a three pronged counter-insurgency strategy.

Governor of Jammu and Kashmir

On 4th June, 2003, General Sinha was sworn in as the 11th Governor of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, a post he resigned in 2008. He is blamed for allegedly creating the Amarnath land transfer controversy. [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/File_Congress_plays_blame_game_on_Amarnath_land_row/articleshow/3181892.cms]

Books

General Sinha has been a prolific writer having contributed nearly 300 edit page articles in national newspapers. He is the author of five books including one on Jammu and Kashmir Operation of 1947-48 and his autobiography, "A Soldier Recalls". His other three books are "Of Matters Military", "Pataliputra" and "Veer Kuer Singh".

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before=Lok Nath Misra
title=Governor of Assam | years=1997–2003
after=Arvind Dave
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title=Governor of Jammu and Kashmir | years=2003–2008
after=Narinder Nath Vohra


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