THE FORGOTTEN HERO LT. GEN. SAGAT SINGH, PVSM The General who 'created' Bangladesh 'General J S Aurora, the commander of the Indian forces in the East, asked General Sagat Singh to withdraw his troops who were on the move to Dacca -- but he refused.' 'He said, "Jaggi, over my dead body".' 'Therefore, I say the creator of Bangladesh was General Sagat Singh.' Lieutenant General O P Kaushik salutes the incredible soldiers who turned the tide in the 1971 War. Lt. Gen. Sagat Singh, PVSM —The forgotten General, who never lost a war. Lt Gen Sagat Singh is unarguably the best military genius post-independence India has produced. General Sagat was 6 feet tall, well built -- and the best field leader the Indian Army has produced. Gen Sagat Singh joined the army as a Sepoy in the erstwhile Indian princely state of Bikaner and rose to become a Lt. General in the Indian Army. On being absorbed into the Indian Army after Independence, he