ABSTRACT
For some time past, in fact Iong time past, I felt how people in this great hulk of the north of India are, what might be said, land minded. They are not so conscious of the sea, natorally they are not as the people on the sea coast and the south of India. There is a definite thing which I have felt repeatedly. How will you think in terms of defence? You think in terms of army in the north. In terms of defence in the south, one would of course think of an army hut more immediately of the sea you think about, whateverit is, trade, etc. There is the land consciousness in the north and the sea consciousness in the south, and we have to he
276 Tbe Arrned Forces of Independent India equally conscious of both land and sea apart from the air, which is common to both.
