In recent years, the frequent reports of suicide & fragging incidents among armed force personnel have prompted several questions about the negative effects of violence & stressful job conditions on soldiers well-being (WB). The prescriptive conception of mental health (MH) is inadequate to understand & explain the complex matrix of interacting variables affecting the MH of the soldiers. The interwoven nature of various social determinants of health which are operational at the workplace, such as the complexity of the hierarchical social categories reflected in caste, class, & power, work...