K. M. Panikkar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

K. M. Panikkar

Indian diplomat, academic and historian

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1895

Place of Birth: Travancore

Date of Death: 10-Dec-1963

Profession: politician, diplomat, historian, author, university teacher

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About K. M. Panikkar

  • Sardar Kavalam Madhava Panikkar (3 June 1895 – 10 December 1963) was an Indian statesman and diplomat also famed as a Professor, newspaper editor, historian and novelist.
  • He was born in Travancore, then a princely state in the British Indian Empire and was educated in Madras and at the University of Oxford. After a period as a professor at Aligarh Muslim University and later at University of Calcutta, he became editor of Hindustan Times in 1925.
  • Later, he was appointed Secretary to the Chamber of Princes, whence he moved to Patiala State and then to Bikaner State as Foreign Minister later becoming the latter's Prime Minister.
  • When India achieved political independence, Sardar Madhava Panikkar represented the country at the 1947 session of the UN General Assembly.
  • In 1950, he was appointed India's (the first non-Socialist country to recognize People's Republic of China) Ambassador to China.
  • After a successful tenure there, he went as Ambassador to Egypt in 1952.
  • He was appointed a member of the States Reorganisation Commission set up in 1953.
  • He was also India's Ambassador to France and a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament.
  • He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kashmir and the University of Mysore.

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