Major General Ajit Anil "Jik" Rudra OBE (20 October 1896 – 3 November 1993) was an Indian military officer who served as General Officer Commanding, Southern Command of the Indian Army.

[2] With the out break of World War I, Rudra enlisted in the British Army leaving Cambridge to join the University and Public School Brigade and took part in the Battle of Mons.

After strict screening, Rudra was selected for the first batch that underwent rigorous pre-commission training.

In 1919, he joined the first batch of the King's Commissioned Indian Officers (KCIOs) at the Daly College in Indore.

[15] The following month, on 17 July 1946, by then a temporary brigadier and Director of Morale, GHQ,[16] he was promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant-colonel.