[2] Chaudhuri was born into an aristocratic Bengali Brahmin of the Moitro gotra, a family which produced many lawyers and writers.

His paternal grandmother, Sukumari Devi (wife of Durgadas), was a sister of the nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

Writer Pramatha Chaudhuri, who married a niece of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, was his uncle.

[8] In 1940, as an acting major, he went overseas on the staff of the 5th Infantry Division and saw service in Sudan, Eritrea, Abyssinia and the western deserts of Africa.

[12] Following a course at the Imperial Defence College in London in 1947, he returned to India and was appointed Director of Military Operations & Intelligence at Army Headquarters in New Delhi in November 1947.

He received the surrender of the Hyderabad State Forces from Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos at Secunderabad.

In 1949, he was appointed as the first Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Electrical & Mechanical Engineers and was promoted to substantive brigadier on 1 January 1950.

[18] The debacle of the Sino-Indian War and subsequent government inquiries revealing India's military unpreparedness and mismanagement resulted in the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Pran Nath Thapar's resignation on 19 November 1962.

[21] In March 1964, he was decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of Merit of the United Arab Republic by its president, Gamal Abdel Nasser.

[22] Chaudhari was COAS during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, generally regarded as a defeat for Pakistan and victory for India.

[26] After a three-year stint at the High Commission of India at Ottawa, he relinquished office, handing over to A.

[27] Chaudhuri wrote two books on military matters and served as a literary reviewer for a leading Indian daily The Statesman.

[28] His funeral and cremation the following day, with full military honours, was attended by hundreds of serving and retired officers and soldiers, including his fellow Chiefs of Staff, Admiral A. K. Chatterji and Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh.