During World War II, in early 1942 ,after the fall of Singapore and the ending of ABDACOM , in August 1943until the formation of SEAC some American and Chinese units were placed under the Army of India command. The army has become heavily committed to internal security duties in Kashmr and the Northeast. There are near about 1 million personnel and fields about 34 devision.
War History of the Indian Army
- The First 150 Years: 1765 - 1914
- The First World War: 1914 - 1918
- The Inter-War Years: 1918 - 1939
- The Second World War: 1939 - 1945
- The Pre-Independence Years: 1945 - 1947
- The First Kashmir War: 1947-48
- The Difficult Years Ahead: 1948 - 1962
- War in the Himalayas: 1962
- Growth & Expansion: 1962 - 1971
- The Second Kashmir War: 1965
- The Liberation War: 1971
- The Last Quarter: 1972 - 1999
- The Siachen Conflict: 1984 Onwards
- The Indian Army in Sri Lanka, 1987 - 1990
- War in the High Mountains: 1999 Kargil Conflict
- The Indian Army in the New Millennium
- Tri-Service Military Exercises
Chief of Indian army
- General Sir Robert McGregor Macdonald Lockhart*
- General Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher
- Field Marshal Kodandera Madappa Cariappa
- General Maharaj Kumar Shri Rajendrasinhji
- General Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh
- General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya
- General Pran Nath Thapar
- General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri
- General Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam
- Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw
- General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
- General Tapishwar Narain Raina
- General Om Prakash Malhotra
- General Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao
- General Arun Shridhar Vaidya
- General Krishnaswamy Sundarji
- General Vishwa Nath Sharma
- General Sunith Francis Rodrigues
- General Bipin Chandra Joshi
- General Shankar Roy Chowdhury
- General Ved Prakash Malik
- General Sundararajan Padmanabhan
- General Nirmal Chander Vij
- General Joginder Jaswant Singh
- General Deepak Kapoor
- General Vijay Kumar Singh
- General Bikram Singh
