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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Sam Hormusji Framji Iamshedji Manekshaw was born in the holy city of Amritsar, on Friday, 3 April 1914, to Hormusji Manekshaw and his wife Heerabai. It was while studying medicine at Grant Medical College, Bombay that I-Iormusji met Heerabai and later married her. The couple, residents of Valsad, a small coastal town in Gujarat, thereafter migrated to Amritsar, in search of better opportunities. On that pleasant April day in Amritsar when Heerabai held Sam for the first time in her life, the fifth of six children she would have, little could she have imagined that the child in her arms was destined to make history. Three months later, in July, World War I broke out, and when the war ended in November 1918, Sam still had a few months to go for his fifth birthday. He was an infant in World War I, but he was to prove his mettle as a young officer in World War II and was destined to lead his country to its greatest military victory when in command of the Indian Army in 1971.
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