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A veteran of 1971 Indo-Pakistan War in Bangladesh and Operation Meghdoot (Siachen glacier) and a MSc in Defence Studies and Instructor- in- Gunnery. Last served in Faculty of Studies at the School of Artillery, Devlali. Post premature retirement in 2000, he has engaged in research and on giving lectures and presentation on his research themes. He was a Research Fellow at the IDSA from August 2005 till April 2018. With effect from September 2018 he is a Consultant for the Indigenous Historical Knowledge (IHK) Project at https://idsa.in/history. Has an abiding interest in Non Traditional Security(NTS) including environmental security, water and climate change, military affairs, and Tibet. He was convener of the IDSA working group Security Implications of Climate Change for India (2009) and a member of IDSA Task Force Report: Water Security for India(2010). He is the lead author of IDSA Task Force Report Tibet and India’s Security (2012).
Some select published books are: Environmental Security: Internal and External Dimensions and Response ,New Delhi, Knowledge World, 2003 ; National Security; A Primer , New Delhi, Knowledge World, 2004 ; Operation Bangladesh, New Delhi, Manas, 2007; Composition and Regimental System of the Indian Army: Continuity and Change, New Delhi, IDSA/Shipra, 2008; Environmental Security: New Challenges and Role of Military, New Delhi, IDSA/Shipra, 2010.
From 2012/13 he has steered the IDSA project ‘Indigenous Historical Knowledge’ and has a number of articles, three monographs ,and five chapters on or related to Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra in four edited volumes of which he is also the co-editor of the trilogy Indigenous Historical Knowledge; Kautilya and His Vocabulary, Volumes I, II and III (20015/2016). His present research interest is Kamandaka’s Nitishastra and the Kural .
