Indian military coup

Anyway you could get a coup by the Indian military

What time period would be most likely

What ideology would they be
 
India's defense system has been designed to make this very unlikely:

"Upon first sight, India has an effective defence policy management system. Unlike many postcolonial developing countries, India has seen no military coups. Nor have there been quiet aggregations of political authority to the military that allow it to determine the political agenda and reduce the flexibility of civilian leaders. Civilian control is firmly established throughout the Indian defence system, with final decisions of war and peace being made by elected civilians, and then, directed through multiple layers of civilian bureaucracy to reach their military recipients. Compared to the opaque fusion of political and military authorities in China, and the transparent dominance of the military over ostensibly civilian-led foreign and security policymaking in Pakistan - to give two nearby examples - India's defence setup appears a model of stability in civil-military relations that accurately reflects its democratic constitution.

"The existence of this system in India's regional context is all the more remarkable for its durability. The national security apparatus was devised by Lords lsmay and Mountbatten in 1947, at the request of India's founding prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. In the violent context of Partition, their priority was to ensure survival of the civilian polity at the apex of defence decision-making. This logic still animates and explains the defence system today, which is still that of Ismay and Mountbatten, with a few minor embellishments on its periphery. The central principles of the system are its establishment of checks and balances *within* the military, with no overall coordinating military figure along the lines of the Chair of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and, by contrast, a unified civilian bureaucracy reporting to the prime minister, who also enjoys ultimate control over the military. This absence of checks and balances within the civilian realm, compared with its status as the organising principle of the military apparatus, ensures a dominance of the civilian over the military to the extent that that it has led analysts to characterise Indian civil-military relations as an 'absent dialogue' (Multherjee 2009).

"The system initially appears durable, due to its absence of military coups and the ability of civil and military leaders to organise effective responses to all manner of subconventional and conventional military provocations. However, a closer investigation of its operation reveals certain dysfunctions flowing from its design, which are growing in their visibility and effects on Indian defence policy. These primarily include: the absence of a military Chief of Defence Staff to reconcile inter-service rivalry; a paucity of long-term strategic planning to set political objectives and prioritise resources in light of these; an overweighting of civilian bureaucracy in the policy-making process, distancing military expertise from policy considerations and replacing it with generalist civilian non-experts; and excessive classification of defence information, hindering the development of societal expertise on foreign and security policy matters..."

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