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Sam's Tale: Manekshaw to Bahadur
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11/28/2023
Back in 2002, interviewed by his own grandson for a documentary, this is how Sam Manekshaw recounted his days of glory.
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Mrs. Gandhi rang up, Sam, are you very busy?
00:04
And I said, Prime Minister, the Army Chief is always busy,
00:08
but never too busy to talk to his Prime Minister.
00:11
I said, the girl wants me.
00:12
Come on, get the car.
00:14
The girl wants me.
00:16
Became Sam Baradar.
00:17
This is a war.
00:18
My soldiers and I have received training for this.
00:21
You handle the politics, you have received training for this.
00:24
One evening, at four o'clock in my office, I was having tea when Mrs. Gandhi rang up.
00:39
She was in Parliament House and she rang up and said, Sam, are you very busy?
00:47
And I said, Prime Minister, the Army Chief is always busy,
00:51
but never too busy to talk to his Prime Minister.
00:54
She said, can you come over?
00:56
And I said, I'm having tea here.
00:58
She said, oh, I'll give you tea.
01:00
I said, I have good tea here, you give me muck.
01:03
She said, oh, come over.
01:05
I got hold of the ADC, I said, the girl wants me.
01:08
Come on, get the car.
01:10
The girl wants me.
01:11
I always knew I'd talk like that.
01:14
So, we got into the car, went to Parliament House.
01:18
She was sitting in her office, in a kidney-shaped table.
01:23
She, an actress, she was sitting down like this.
01:27
I walked in, in my breezy way, I said, hello, Prime Minister.
01:32
You seem worried, what's wrong?
01:34
She said, I've got problems.
01:36
So, I said, oh, cry on my shoulder, what are your problems?
01:39
And she looked me straight in the face and said, you are my problem.
01:44
So, I said, now what have I done?
01:46
Have I made a speech, have I done something stupid?
01:51
I said, what have I done now?
01:53
She said, everybody says you are going to take over from me.
01:56
So, I said, and what do you think?
01:59
She says, you can't.
02:00
And I said, oh, you think I'm so incompetent?
02:03
I didn't mean that, Sam, you wouldn't.
02:09
She has a long nose, I have a longer one.
02:11
I put my nose next to hers.
02:15
I want to tell you, I have no intention or even a thought of getting involved in politics
02:22
or taking over, as long as I command my army without interference.
02:26
Okay, you have told me enough about Mrs. Gandhi and myself.
02:31
So, Sam, tell me about when you joined the Gurkhas.
02:35
Oh, Lord, in the Indian Army, there were ten regiments of Gurkhas.
02:44
So, when India got independence, like the Pakistan people went to Pakistan, certain
02:51
regiments went to Her Majesty's Gurkhas, and certain regiments remained in India.
02:57
But there was a treaty between the King of Nepal and the British government that all
03:05
Gurkha regiments would be officered by British officers.
03:11
So, when the British officers left, there had to be some Indian officers.
03:16
So, I was the first Indian to be posted to a Gurkha regiment.
03:23
I haven't been with the Frontier Force Regiment, now became a Gurkha.
03:27
What year was this?
03:29
1947.
03:32
And I met a Gurkha sentry, I looked at him and I said, ask him your name.
03:40
And he said, Hargabad Gurkha.
03:43
And I looked at him and said, what's your name?
03:45
And he thought and thought and he said, Sam Bahadur.
03:48
Became Sam Bahadur.
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