A court of inquiry was ordered against Manekshaw on allegations of being an unabashed Anglophile, too Western and, by implication, anti-Indian, of restoring and putting up in his office portraits of Robert Clive and Warren Hastings, and insulting Shivaji by saying (allegedly) that the painting of Shivaji riding a stallion was misleading because Shivaji only rode taattoos (ponies).
The charges were dismissed by a court of inquiry by the Western Army Commander, Lt General Daulet Singh, but Menon did not relent in his effort to get Manekshaw dismissed.
Manekshaw's career survived this vicious assault after both Krishna Menon and Kaul met their nemesis in the 1962 War.
