User:Mikrobølgeovn/List of wars involving India

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results Indian commanders Indian losses
Indian Prime Minister Minister of Defence of India IAF
forces
Civilians
First Indo-Pakistani War
(1947–1948)
 India  Pakistan Victory
Jawaharlal Nehru
Baldev Singh
1,104[1]
?
Annexation of Junagadh
(1947)
 India Junagadh Victory
  • Annexation of Junagadh
?
?
Operation Polo
(1948)
 India  Hyderabad Victory
  • Annexation of Hyderabad
32[2]
27,000–
200,000
Liberation of Dadra
(1954)
 India  Portugal Victory
  • Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli
None
44[3]
None
Congo Crisis
(1960–1964)
Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo-Léopoldville
United Nations ONUC
 Katanga
 South Kasai
Victory
V. K. Krishna Menon
?
?
Liberation of Goa
(1961)
 India  Portugal Victory
  • Incorporation of Goa
22[4]
None
Sino-Indian War
(1962)
 India  China Defeat
1,383[5]
?
Second Indo-Pakistani War
(1965)
 India  Pakistan Victory[6]
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Yashwantrao Chavan
~3,000[7]
?
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
(1967–)
 India Naxalites Ongoing[8]
Indira Gandhi
Swaran Singh
?
?
Cho La Incident
(1967)
 India  China Victory
  • Chinese retreat from Sikkim
88[9]
?
Third Indo-Pakistani War
(1971)
 India
Bangladesh
 Pakistan Victory
  • Independence of Bangladesh
Jagjivan Ram
2,500–[10]
3,843[11]
?
Operation Meghdoot
(1984)
 India  Pakistan Victory
  • India captures the Siachen Glacier
R. Venkataraman
36[12]
None
Punjab insurgency
(1984–1995)
 India Sikhs Victory
?
12,000+[13]
Indian intervention in Sri Lanka
(1987–1990)
 India
 Sri Lanka
Tamil Tigers Stalemate
  • Continued civil war in Sri Lanka
Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi
1,138[14]
?
Operation Cactus
(1988)
 India
 Maldives
PLOTE Victory
  • Government rule restored in Maldives
K. C. Pant
None
None
Kargil War
(1999)
 India  Pakistan Victory
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
George Fernandes
527[15]
?

References[edit]

List
    1. ^ Malik, V. P. (2010). Kargil from Surprise to Victory (paperback ed.). HarperCollins Publishers India. p. 343. ISBN 9789350293133.
    2. ^ "Official Indian army website complete Roll of Honor of Indian KIA". Indianarmy.nic.in. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
    3. ^ Azaredo, Carlos; Gabriel Figueiredo (translation) (8 December 2001). "Passage to India – 18th December 1961". Goancauses.com. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
    4. ^ Azaredo, Carlos; Gabriel Figueiredo (translation) (8 December 2001). "Passage to India – 18th December 1961". Goancauses.com. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
    5. ^ The US Army "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) says Indian wounded were 1,047 and attributes it to Indian Defence Ministry's 1965 report, but this report also included a lower estimate of killed.
    6. ^ Spencer C. Tucker. The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts [5 volumes]: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts. ABC-CLIO. p. 946. India's victory in the war
    7. ^ Thomas M. Leonard (2006). Encyclopedia of the developing world. Taylor & Francis. pp. 806–. ISBN 978-0-415-97663-3. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
    8. ^ "India's Naxalites: A spectre haunting India". The Economist. 12 April 2006. Archived from the original on 23 May 2010. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
    9. ^ People, India Parliament House of the; Sabha, India Parliament Lok (1967). Lok Sabha Debates. Lok Sabha Secretariat. pp. 51–.
    10. ^ M. Leonard, Thomas (2006). Encyclopedia of the Developing World. Taylor & Francis. p. 806. ISBN 978-0415976640. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
    11. ^ Vulnerable India: A Geographical Study of Disaster By Anu Kapur
    12. ^ The Illustrated Weekly of India - Volume 110, Issues 14-26. Times of India. Pakistani troops were forced out with over 200 casualties as against 36 Indian fatalities
    13. ^ Punjab militancy: There have been 12,000 deaths. One India.
    14. ^ http://army.lk/detailed.php?NewsId=7445
    15. ^ Chakraborty, A. K. "Kargil War Brings into Sharp Focus India's Commitment to Peace". Press Information Bureau, Government of India. Retrieved 23 May 2014.