{"id":7970,"date":"2016-01-19T06:27:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T06:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=7970"},"modified":"2016-01-19T06:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T06:27:43","slug":"lt-gen-j-f-r-jacob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/lt-gen-j-f-r-jacob\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt Gen J.F.R Jacob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ques: Recently, Lt. Gen. J. F. R. Jacob died. He played a significant role in which of the following war?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(a) India-China War<br \/>\n(b) India-Pakistan War 1971<br \/>\n(c) India-Pakistan War 1998<br \/>\n(d) World War-II<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ans (b)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Lieutenant General Jacob-Farj-Rafael Jacob (retired) died on 13 January 2016 after prolonged illness in New Delhi. He was 92.<\/li>\n<li>He fought in Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 and Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.<\/li>\n<li>Lt Gen Jacob gained prominence when as Major General he served as the Chief of Staff of the Indian Army&#8217;s Eastern Command that defeated the Pakistan Army in East Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.<\/li>\n<li>He enlisted in the British Indian Army in 1942.<\/li>\n<li>Jacob joined the army at the age of 19 and also fought in World War II retired from Army in 1978.<\/li>\n<li>He also served as the Governor of Goa and Punjab after his retirement.<\/li>\n<li>He authored two books named\u00a0<strong>Surrender at Dacca: Birth of a Nation<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>An Odyssey in War and Peace: An Autobiography Lt Gen. J.F.R. Jacob<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=134442\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=134442<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._F._R._Jacob\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._F._R._Jacob<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ques: Recently, Lt. Gen. J. F. R. Jacob died. He played a significant role in which of the following war? (a) India-China War (b) India-Pakistan War 1971 (c) India-Pakistan War 1998 (d) World War-II Ans (b) Related facts: Lieutenant General Jacob-Farj-Rafael Jacob (retired) died on 13 January 2016 after prolonged illness in New Delhi. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}