Bal Ram Nanda
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Bal Ram Nanda (1917 – 30 May 2010) was an Indian historian and biographer from New Delhi.[http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50-26583 Bal Ram Nanda] World catalogue. He was the preeminent Indian biographer of Mahatma Gandhi.
Career
After studying history at Lahore University, B.R. Nanda joined the Indian Railways Services, and served as a senior railway officer.{{cite web|title=The Gandhian Writer, Bal Ram Nanda, Sughosh India |url=http://bapu.sughosh.in/2012/08/the-gandhian-writer-bal-ram-nanda }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}Complete Life of Bapu, Sughosh India
He was the first Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi.
Awards
- Padma Bhushan, 1988,
- Padma Vibhushan, 2003.{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954-2007) |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs |date=2007-05-30 |url=http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/PadmaAwards1954-2007.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410024701/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/PadmaAwards1954-2007.pdf |archive-date=2009-04-10 }}
Death
Nanda died on 30 May 2010 at his New Delhi residence.[http://www.rajbhavansikkim.gov.in/MessageDetl.aspx?MsgID=21 BALRAM NANDA (1917–2010)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019234345/http://rajbhavansikkim.gov.in/MessageDetl.aspx?MsgID=21 |date=19 October 2011 }} Raj Bhavan (Sikkim), 1 June 2010
Works
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=_6FAAAAAMAAJ&q=Bal%20Ram%20Nanda Mahatma Gandhi: A biography] (translated into French, Spanish, Italian and several Indian languages).
- Gandhi and his critics{{Cite book |last=Nanda |first=Bal Ram |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDJuAAAAMAAJ&q=Bal%20Ram%20Nanda |title=Gandhi and His Critics |date=1985 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-561722-1 |language=en}}
- Gokhale, Gandhi, and the Nehrus{{Cite book |last=Nanda |first=Bal Ram |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-C1AAAAIAAJ&q=Bal%20Ram%20Nanda |title=Gokhale, Gandhi and the Nehrus: Studies in Indian Nationalism |date=1974 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-0-04-954018-7 |language=en}}
- In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections{{Cite book |last=Nanda |first=Bal Ram |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2jNuAAAAMAAJ&q=Bal%20Ram%20Nanda |title=In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-565649-7 |language=en}}
- Gandhi: pan-Islamism, imperialism, and nationalism in India
- Motilal Nehru (Builders of modern India), Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1964
- Socialism in India, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Vikas Publications, 1972
- {{cite book |title= Gandhi: a Pictorial Biography |url= https://archive.org/details/gandhipictorialb00nand |year= 1972 |publisher= New Delhi Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting |isbn= 9788123001982 |oclc= 540771 }}
- Gandhi and his critics, Oxford Univ. Pr., 1985
- Road to Pakistan 2010
References
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External links
- [http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Nanda,%20Bal%20Ram]
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Category:20th-century Indian historians
Category:20th-century Indian biographers
Category:Historians of South Asia
Category:Indian civil servants
Category:Indian Railways officers
Category:Writers from New Delhi
Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
Category:Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in literature & education
Category:20th-century Indian male writers
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