K. M. Panikkar: An Autobiography - Translated from the Malayalam by K. Krishnamurthy.

K. M. Panikkar

[Madras] Oxford University Press

1977

376 páginas

12h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780333907481

An Autobiography / K. M. Panikkar [ASIN: B001OOOTEE] -- First published 1954. Reprinted with correction 1964 / Printed in India.
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[About the Author]: Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, popularly known as Sardar K. M. Panikkar (born: June 03, 1895 -- died: December 10, 1963). The author of "Asia and Western Dominance". He was an Indian scholar, journalist, historian, administrator and diplomat. He was born in the Kingdom of Travancore, then a princely state in the British Indian Empire and was educated in Madras and 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 went to Patiala State as Foreign Minister and then to Bikaner State later becoming its Prime Minister. When India achieved freedom, Panikkar represented the country at the 1947 session of the UN General Assembly. In 1948, he was appointed India's ambassador to China. After a successful tenure there, he went as envoy to Egypt in 1952. He was appointed as chairman of 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 University of Kashmir and University of Mysore.

[The Translator]: K. Krishnamurthy (22 October 1915 – 6 March 2011) was an Indian writer, publisher and political activist. He was the husband of Lakshmi Krishnamurti and son-in-law of Congress leader S. Satyamurti.