Sultan Mahmood (general)
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Major General Sultan Mahmood was a General of the Indian Army.
Biography
He was a born in Mysore, India, and is the younger brother of Lieutenant General Jameel Mahmood, ex-General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Eastern Command of the Indian Army. He is a relative of Lieutenant General (retd.) Mohammad Ahmed Zaki of the Indian Army.{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}
In the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 commanded four medium guns in the Kashmir Valley. In the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 he was part of the victorious force against East Pakistan. He later commanded an artillery brigade, serving as Brigadier-in-Charge in Punjab, and as the sub-area commander of Karnataka and Goa. Upon being promoted to the rank of major general he was appointed Director General (Recruiting) at the Army HQ in New Delhi.{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}
As of 2001, he was one of only eight Muslims in the Indian Army to rise to the rank of major general.The others are M. A. Zaki and Jameel Mahmood (who rose further to lieutenant general), Enayat Habibullah, Syed Mahdi Hasanain, Afsir Karim, Sami Khan, and A. S. Jamaal, see, Khalidi, Omar. "Ethnic group recruitment in the Indian army: The contrasting cases of Sikhs, Muslims, Gurkhas and others." Pacific Affairs (2001): 529-552.
He was an alumnus of the Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore, India.{{cite web |url=http://www.genthimayya.org/Alumni.html |title=Alumni |access-date=2010-03-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721090442/http://www.genthimayya.org/Alumni.html |archive-date=21 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}[https://books.google.com/books?id=XGDiBQAAQBAJ&dq=%22general++Sultan+Mahmood%22+jameel+Artillery&pg=PT45 The Order of the Crest: Tracing the Alumni of Bishop Cotton Boys' School], Aditya Sondhi
See also
- Hyderabadi Muslims
- Golkonda
- Hyderabad State
- Muslim culture of Hyderabad
- History of Hyderabad for a history of the city of Hyderabad.
- Hyderabad (India) for the city.