A government without statecraft

When India became independent, its institutional inheritance included the British Indian army, at the time one of the best-organised armies in the world, and which had proved its mettle in numerous campaigns in the preceding decades. Yet, within 15 years, that same army was humiliated and Nehru’s reputation was shattered. The inevitable hand-wringing and finger-pointing that ensued did not, however, squarely address the basic question: No matter what the causes of that war, when it did occur, why did an army that was one of the world’s finest just a few years before perform so abjectly?

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