Onkar Singh Kalkat

Major General Onkar Singh Kalkat
Born	1917 or 1918
Died	3 December 2004 (age 86)
Allegiance	British India  India
Service/Branch	British Indian Army  Indian Army Research and Analysis Wing
Rank	Major General
Battles/wars	Burma 1939-45 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Awards	Param Vishisht Seva Medal[1] Mentioned in dispatches twice
Children	Two daughters and a son

Major–General Onkar Singh Kalkat, PVSM, (1917 or 1918 – 3 December 2004) was an Indian military officer in the British Indian Army and later the Indian Army. Soon after the partition of India in 1947, he stumbled upon the plans for an Operation Gulmarg, which were apparently Pakistani plans to attack the princely state of Kashmir, two months before they were to commence. Even though he conveyed the information to the Indian authorities, he was not taken seriously. Senior Indian officials including the-then Defence Minister of India Sardar Baldev Singh, Brigadier Kalwant Singh and the DGMO, Col. P. N. Thapar, were complicit in the delay in taking action on Kalkat's information. Kalkat's account also shows the complicity of some British officials in the 1947 invasion of Kashmir.