He is best known for authoring the still-classified[1] Henderson Brooks-Bhagat Report, along with Brigadier P S Bhagat (later lieutenant general).

He was also an excellent sportsman and reached the 3rd round of the men's singles at the 1938 Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

[4] He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned a second lieutenant on to the Unattached List for the Indian Army on 29 August 1929.

He was accepted into the Indian Army and posted to the 5th battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry on 5 November 1930.

As a temporary lieutenant colonel (acting brigadier), he was appointed Commander, 161 Infantry Brigade based in Uri during the Kashmir War General Officer Commanding Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) Forces on 6 December 1949, with the local rank of major general.