Satyawant Mallana Srinagesh

Who is Satyawant Mallana Srinagesh?

General Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh was the second Indian to become Chief of Army Staff. He was in charge of Kumaon Regiment for several years. On retirement from the army, he was Governor of Assam, Mysore and Andhra Pradesh. He was also principal of Administrative Staff College of India at Hyderabad.

General Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh assumed charge of the Indian Army, as the 3rd Chief of Army Staff, on 14 May 1955. He was the eldest son of Dr Shrinagesh Mallannah, who was the personal physician to the Nizam of Hyderabad. Born in 1903 at Kolhapur, Maharashtra he went to West Buckland School in England and entered Cambridge University in 1921.

Among the earliest batches of Indians to be nominated for the Sandhurst Military Academy in the U.K., he won the Quetta Cup for the best man at arms entering the Indian Army in 1923. He was subsequently commissioned into the 19th Hyderabad Regiment on 30 August 1923. After a brief association with the North Staffordshire Regiment, he was posted to the 2/1 Madras Pioneers with which he served mostly in Burma until it was disbanded. In 1933, he joined the 4/19th Hyderabad Regiment and served in Singapore as its adjutant. In December 1939, he was posted as an Instructor at the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun.