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Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Other facets | | Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Other facets: Encyclopedia II - Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Other facets | | He was affectionately known as Kipper and as the story goes, a British officer's wife found it difficult to pronounce Cariappa and shortened it to a convenient Kipper. In the years that followed, his colleagues, and others who knew him well, continued to call him Kipper.
Cariappa held no truck on commission in the Indian Army and in picturesque, forthright language remarked after the partition, "I don't care a damn if a man is a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Parsi or Christian as long as he plays the game ...
See also:Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Early Life and Education, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Military Career, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Other facets, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Higher Commands and Offices, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Personality, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Post Retirement | | | Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Early Life and Education, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Higher Commands and Offices, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Military Career, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Other facets, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Personality, Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Post Retirement | | |
| | | Kodandera Madappa Cariappa: Encyclopedia II - Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Other facets
Kodandera Madappa Cariappa - Other facets
He was affectionately known as Kipper and as the story goes, a British officer's wife found it difficult to pronounce Cariappa and shortened it to a convenient Kipper. In the years that followed, his colleagues, and others who knew him well, continued to call him Kipper.
Cariappa held no truck on commission in the Indian Army and in picturesque, forthright language remarked after the partition, "I don't care a damn if a man is a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Parsi or Christian as long as he plays the game to serve our country well. This is all that matters to me."
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