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Mohinder Singh Randhawa

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Indian art historian and botanist (1909-1986)

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Mohinder Singh Randhawa or M. S. Randhawa was an Indian historian, civil servant, botanist, and author.

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M S Randhawa, part of the Emergency Committee Control Room, Delhi, September 1947.M S Randhawa, part of the Emergency Committee Control Room, Delhi, September 1947.M S Randhawa with Punjabi Writers and academics, 1970M S Randhawa with Punjabi Writers and academics, 1970Randhawa planting tree in ChandigarhRandhawa planting tree in ChandigarhM. S. Randhawa, Norah Richards and Amrita Pritam at Andretta, Himachal Pradesh, c. 1960M. S. Randhawa, Norah Richards and Amrita Pritam at Andretta, Himachal Pradesh, c. 1960

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Padma Bhushan in science & engineering

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About this person

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.

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India
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Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1909 to 1986 · aged 77
Written about in
7 languages

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