P. N. Dhar
{{short description|Indian economist}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Prithvi Nath Dhar
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|term_start = 1970
|term_end = 2012
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|birth_place = Jammu and Kashmir, British India
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2012|7|19|1919|3|1}}
|death_place = New Delhi, Delhi, India
|alma_mater = Hindu College, University of Delhi
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Prithvi Nath Dhar (P.N. Dhar, 1 March 1919 – 19 July 2012) was an Indian economist and the head of Indira Gandhi's secretariat and one of her closest advisers.{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-19/india/32746172_1_pn-dhar-eminent-economist-shimla-accord |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103130100/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-19/india/32746172_1_pn-dhar-eminent-economist-shimla-accord |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-03 |title=PN Dhar, a close advisor of Indira Gandhi, passes away |date=2012-07-19 |newspaper=The Times of India |access-date=2012-08-03}}
Early life and career
P. N. Dhar was born into a Kashmiri Pandit family{{Cite web|date=28 July 2001|title=Remembering Sheila|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/all-that-matters/remembering-sheila/articleshow/871982908.cms|access-date=2022-01-16|website=The Times of India|language=en}} on 1919 to Dr. Vishnu Hakim and Radha Hakim. His wife was the singer-writer Sheila Dhar. He attended Tyndale Biscoe School in Srinagar, India, and then studied economics at the Hindu College of the University of Delhi.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
Dhar served as principal secretary to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the tumultuous days of the Emergency (1973–1977).{{citation needed|date=July 2013}} He was one of her close advisors, who were collectively known as the "Kashmiri Mafia".{{cite web |author=Rukun Advani |url=http://www.indiarightsonline.com/Sabrang/india4.nsf/38b852a8345861dd65256a980059289d/7dd12afc8628f7bde5256b62002c34e2?OpenDocument |title=A Little Outside the Ring |date=2 February 2002 |access-date=2013-03-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126221617/http://www.indiarightsonline.com/Sabrang/india4.nsf/38b852a8345861dd65256a980059289d/7dd12afc8628f7bde5256b62002c34e2?OpenDocument |archive-date=26 January 2013 }}
He was also a professor of economics at Delhi University for many years and the director and emeritus professor of the Institute of Economic Growth in New Delhi.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
He was one of the founders of the Delhi School of Economics. He served as the United Nations assistant secretary general, research and policy analysis, in New York from 1978 to 1986.
He was awarded the Padma Vibushan, India's second highest civilian award in 2008.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
His memoir, Indira Gandhi, the Emergency, and Indian Democracy was published in 2000.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
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Category:20th-century Indian economists
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