For the first time, a large section of the still classified Henderson Brooks Report, which details a comprehensive operational review of India’s military debacle in 1962, has been made public.
The report, which is still classified in India, has indicted former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and other top government officials for India’s failure in the 1962 war.
The report was uploaded on the internet by Australian journalist Neville Maxwell, who was a correspondent covering the war. The uploaded section includes 100 pages of the report’s first volume that has an exhaustive operational review of the war.
The report was submitted in 1963. Maxwell on his website stated that the reason for not making the report public must be ‘political, indeed partisan and probably even familial’.
A request for the report to be declassified had earlier been made by BJP president Rajnath Singh. At the time, Defence Minister A K Anthony said that the report could not be made public as it contained sensitive information.
The report is expected to be taken up as an election issue as after more than 50 years.
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