Kuldip Singh Brar

Kuldip Singh Brar
Born	1934 (age 82–83) Punjab, British India
Allegiance	India
Service/branch	Army
Years of service	1954 - 1987
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Operation Blue Star
Awards	Ati Vishisht Seva Medal Param Vishisht Seva Medal Vir Chakra

Kuldip Singh Brar (born 1934) is a retired Indian Army officer, who was involved in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. He commanded Operation Blue Star against Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and pro-Khalistan militants, who had amassed weapons inside the Golden Temple complex.

K S Brar was born in 1934 into a Jat Sikh family. His father, D S Brar, served in World War II and retired as a Major General. He studied at the Col. Brown Cambridge School and The Doon School, an all-boys' boarding school.

Brar joined the Maratha Light Infantry in 1954 as a lieutenant. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Brar commanded an infantry battalion, and was in the first batch of troops who entered Dhaka (now the capital of Bangladesh) on the morning of 16 December 1971. He won the Vir Chakra for the battle fought at Jamalpur on the night of 10 December 1971. His battalion was pitted against the 31st Baluch of the Pakistani Army. The Baluch Regiment launched continuous attacks against Brar's battalion. His soldiers had to move across the river Brahmaputra, at a location where no bridges existed. Therefore, they were able to carry only limited weapons on a man-pack basis. Brar moved from company to company in the midst of the battle, motivating his soldiers to continue the fight despite the lack of sufficient weapons.

In the years following the 1971 Indo-Pak war, Brar was involved in anti-insurgency operations in Nagaland and Mizoram states of India.

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