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- Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Arora, PVSM, BP [note 1] (13 February 1916 [note 2] – 3 May 2005) was an Indian senior military officer who was the General Officer Commanding -in-Chief (GOC-in-C) Eastern Command during the Bangladesh Liberation War and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Arora,PVSM, BP [2] [1] [3] [note 1] (13 February 1916 [note 2] – 3 May 2005) was an Indian senior military officer who was the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) Eastern Command during the Bangladesh Liberation War and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
- Birth and Early Life
- Career in British Indian Army
- After Independence
- Lt Gen Aurora Became Goc, Eastern Command
- Then Came 1971
- Then Came 16 December 1971
- Retirement and Death
Lt Gen Aurora was born on 13 Februrary, 1916 in a Sikh family in Kala Gujran, Jhelum district of United Punjab. His father was an engineer.
Lt Gen Aurora graduated from Indian Military Academy in 1939 and was commissioned into the 1st Battlaion, 2nd Punjab Regiment. He straightaway saw action just after two-three years of commission on Burma during Japanese campaign in WW-II.
Lt Gen Aurora was a commissioned officer and saw action in 1947 war against Pakistan in Kashmir. He also witnessed the action in 1962 Sino-Indian war as well as 1965 war against Pakistan.
Since Lt Gen Aurora was destined to be part of a historical moment which would immortalise him in the annals of wars, he became Commander In Chief, Eastern Command just two years before the war of 1971.
With Pakistan launching Operation Searchlight to curb Bengali nationalist movement in then East Pakistan, Pak army unleashed a fury of unfathomable atrocities on poor Bangladeshis. Lakhs of women were raped whereas the men were killed. The Bengalis started fleeing into India and Calcutta because the centre of refugees storming in from East Pakistan...
Indian army’s repeated attacks forced Pakistan forces to surrender and Pakistan General, Lt Gen Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi who was earlier bragging about "killing all Indians present in East Pakistan" was forced to sign an unconditional Instrument of Surrender. www.thedailystar.ne The photograph of Niazi and Aurora at the signing of the Instruments o...
Lt Gen Aurora retired from the Indian Army in 1973. Aurora was honoured with the Param Vishisht Seva Medal and the Padma Bhushan for his role in the war. Aurora died on 3 May 2005, at age 89, in New Delhi. After his death,Bangladeshoffered its gratitude for the favour Lt Gen Aurora did to Bangladesh while serving his country. The Morshed Khan, the ...
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Lt-Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora (or Arora) (Punjabi: ਜਨਰਲ ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਅਰੋੜਾ) (February 13, 1916 - May 3, 2005) was the Indian commander whose comprehensive defeat of the Western Pakistan Army in 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh.
Jagjit Singh Aurora (1916-2005) was a retired three-star general of the Indian Army and a politician. He is known for being the Indian Army’s Eastern Army Commander during the third Indo-Pakistan War in 1971. He died on 3 May 2005 in New Delhi due to natural causes.
The finest hour of the millennium for India descended on Dec. 16, 1971 at 4.51 p.m. when Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi, GOC – in-C, East Pakistan, and his 93,000 strong army surrendered to Lt. Gen. Jagjit Singh Arora, GOC-in-C, India’s eastern command, hero of this war, that gave birth to a new independent nation on the globe, only in 13 days, what ...
May 6, 2005 · Lt. Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora, known as the architect of the 1971 war with Pakistan that led to the birth of Bangladesh as an independent nation, died on Tuesday in a military hospital here. He...
Feb 13, 2019 · On his 103rd birth anniversary, ThePrint takes a look at the life of Lt Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora, the Indian Army veteran who planned & executed the 1971 war.
