# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mohinder-singh-randhawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:37:36.893Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mohinder-singh-randhawa"
name: "Mohinder Singh Randhawa"
slug: "mohinder-singh-randhawa"
description: "Mohinder Singh Randhawa or M. S. Randhawa was an Indian historian, civil servant, botanist, and author. He played major roles in the establishment of agricultural research in India, the Green Revolution in India, resettling Punjabis uprooted by the partition of India as the Director-General of Rehabilitation, establishing the city of Chandigarh, and documenting the arts of Punjab and the history of agriculture in India. A biographer, Gulzar Singh Sandhu, gave him the sobriquet Punjab da Chhewan Dariya, the sixth river of Punjab."
tagline: "Indian art historian and botanist (1909-1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chandigarh%2C_India_rose_garden_bust_of_Dr_Randhawa_5.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1909-02-02"
deathDate: "1986-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.600293333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "مہیندر سنگھ رندھاوا"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump