Author:

Dr. Manas Dutta
1Assistant Professor
Department of History
Aliah University
Kolkata, West Bengal,India

Email: manasduttacu@gmail.com

Abstract: India has been proved to be one of the important countries of South Asia in recent times in matters like civil-military and its related aspects. Initially, Indian Army has shown reluctance in matters like politics and civil issues which emerged out of eruptive environment since the independence of India. Political neutrality has been maintained under the British colonialization of the Indian Army so that they could be kept outside the orbit of such political entanglements in order to maintain peace and stability in the society at large. This reluctance has been further reinforced since India received her independence in 1947 onwards. Sadly, this legacy of political neutrality of the Indian Army of contemporary times has been threatened in order to get political and agenda driven mileages. Furthermore, Army in recent times got automatically politicized while it has been use to quell communal or ethno- linguistic violence which has been erupted in recent times in some parts of India. Therefore, this paper tries to examine the complicated or multifaceted civil-military relation of the Indian Army in contemporary times and how the notion of political neutrality of the Army has been threatened since the last decades by deploying it in order to get political mileages.

Key Words: Contemporary India, Civil, Military, Independence Indian Army, Violence etc.