- June 1, 1940
- December 31, 1968
In 1940, D.P. Dhar completed his LLB from Lucknow and returned to Srinagar. He had seen tremendous success as a student leader and gravitated quite...
- July 23, 1972
- December 31, 1974
After The Simla Agreement was signed and the Bangladesh crisis had been resolved, Indira Gandhi once again turned to her crisis man, D.P. Dhar, to...
- August 8, 1971
- July 31, 1972
In August 1971, D.P. Dhar had been recalled from his ambassadorial assignment in Moscow to help India manage the deepening crisis in East Pakistan. Prime...
- June 28, 1972
- July 2, 1972
R to L: PN Dhar, PN Haksar, DP Dhar, TN Kaul at the Simla Agreement talks in June 1972. In August 1971, DP Dhar had...
- January 1, 1937
- June 1, 1940
In 1937, eighteen-year-old DP left Kashmir to pursue a degree in law at the University of Lucknow. At the time, Lucknow was burgeoning with political...
- May 10, 1918
- May 10, 1935
Durga Prasad Dhar, known to his family and friends as ‘DP’, was born on May 10, 1918 into a prominent Kashmiri Pandit family in Safa...
- February 1, 1969
- August 1, 1971
On January 4, 1969, Durga Prasad Dhar was appointed Ambassador to the USSR and Mongolia. D.P. Dhar landed at Moscow airport on a cold January...