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Explore the life of D.P. Dhar​

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...