Muslims in Indian Armed Forces

Muslims in Indian Armed Forces

Muslim population in combined India before partition, as per 1941 census was 23%.
After partition, two third of the muslims migrated to Pakistan and 1/3rd left in India. Therefore, as per 1951 census muslims population percentage reduced to 10 %.

While according to 2001, muslims were 13.4% of Indian population.

Muslims in Indian Army were 2% in 1953 which reduced to 1% in 1990. Currently, muslims percentage in Indian armed forces has marginally increased to 3%.
No Muslim in the Indian army ever made it past the rank of major-general and only eight ever made it that far.
One Air Chief of IAF was muslim ACM Idris Hasan Latif (1978-1981).

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