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P. N. Haksar
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Indian bureaucrat
Other names
Purshottam Narayan Haksar
Place of birth
Place of death
New Delhi
About
P. N. Haksar arrived in Britain to study at the London School of Economics. He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in the early 1940s. In London, he was an active member of Krishna Menon's India League along with other students, which greatly shaped his socialist political outlook. He befriended Feroze Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru's daughter Indira, who would later appoint him her Principal Secretary, a post he held from 1967 to 1973. He was also India's chief negotiator for the talks between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in 1972–3.
Mulk Raj Anand, Feroze Gandhi, Krishna Menon, Indira Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru, Iqbal Singh.
Premonitions (Bombay: Interpress, 1979)
Reflections on Our Time (Delhi: Lancers, 1982)
One More Life (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990)
Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto Press, 2002)
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
