Talk:J. F. R. Jacob

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Contents 1 Comments on WPBiography Rating 2 Interesting Article, poorly written 3 Biography 4 Article name

[edit] Comments on WPBiography Rating

References and external links are extremely messy. Needs a picture and I question the necessity of the Jewish template. It's just barely a B article and definitely could use a bit of polishing. Good amount of info though. --Psychless ^{Type words or read things!} 03:34, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interesting Article, poorly written

great potential Stoopideggs2 05:34, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biography

JFR Jacob (Jacob-Farj-Rafael Jacob) was born in 1923.His family origiinally from Iraq settled in Kolkata appoximately 150 years back. At age nine, his father, a successful businessman, sent him to a boarding school in the city of Darjeeling, about 500 kilometers from Calcutta. From then on, he only went home on school holidays. In 1941, at age 18, he enlisted in the Indian army, which was under British command against his father's wishes. But the atrocities of the Nazis and their treatment of the Jews, were instrumental in his descision of being a military man. Upon his enlistment, Jacob joined an artillery brigade that was dispatched to North Africa to reinforce the British army against the German army under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The brigade arrived after the battles were over. From there, Jacob's unit was sent to Burma where he fought for three years against the Japanese.

General Jacob gained prominent fame in his homeland when he headed the Indian army forces that vanquished the Pakistani army in the war that broke out between the two countries in 1971, over control of the Bangladesh region (which after the war became an independent state, having formerly been East Pakistan). For his decisive role in the sweeping victory, Jacob was granted a commendation of merit.

General Jacob is a graduate of artillery schools in England and the United States and specialized in advanced artillery and missiles. Prior to his appointment as commander of the Eastern Command (along the Bangladesh front), he commanded an infantry and artillery division.

He retired from the military in 1978, following 37 years of service. Jacob tried his hand in the business world, but remained in close contact with government echelons. In the late `90s, he became the governor of the Goa province, and subsequently became the governor of the state of Punjab, which borders Kashmir.

Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Israel, Jacob has paid many visits to Israel. Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin invited him to attend the Jerusalem 3,000 celebrations. On his recent visit here, he even contributed items of Judaica from his parent's home to the Museum of Babylonian Jewry in Or Yehuda. His home in New Delhi has for years been a pilgrimage site for Israeli diplomats, researchers and security officers.

[edit] Article name

If "J. F. R. Jacob" (the article's current name) = "Jacob-Farj-Rafael Jacob", should this article's name be "JFR Jacob" or "J-F-R Jacob", perhaps with hatnote explaining the abbreviation...? Sardanaphalus (talk) 14:06, 23 February 2008 (UTC)