N. R. Pillai
R. K. Nehru | |
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5th Ambassador of India to France | |
In office June 1959 - 1961 | |
Preceded by | K. M. Panikkar |
Succeeded by | Ali Yavar Jung |
Personal details | |
Born | Elenkath Narayanan Raghavan Pillai 24 July 1898 Indian citizenship |
Sir Narayanan Raghavan Pillai, of Elenkath,[1] KCIE, CBE (24 July 1898 – 31 March 1992), popularly known as "Rag", was an Indian civil servant. He served as the first Cabinet Secretary in independent India, 1950–1953,[2] and as the second Secretary General in the Ministry of External Affairs,[3][4] He also served as India's Ambassador to France.
Early life
Pillai was born in
Career
British India
Joining the
Independent India
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Pillai served as the Commissioner General for Economic and Commercial Affairs in Europe until 1953, residing in
Later life
During the 1960s, he served as managing director of two business firms in New Delhi, after which he emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1968. A trail of correspondence in the columns of the
In his last years, he resided at 26 Hans Place in Kensington, Knightsbridge. He died on 31 March 1992, just short of 94.
Personal life
In 1928, he married and the couple had two sons. Nisha Pillai, the former BBC presenter, is one of his grandchildren.[8]
Honours
He was appointed
Pillai was awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India in 1960, and was made an honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, his old college, in 1970.
References
- ^ Dewan Nanoo Pillai by K. R. Elenkath, Trivandrum, 1982 see chapter titles family members
- ^
Kapur, Harish (2009). Foreign Policies of India's Prime Ministers. Delhi: Lancer Publishers. p. 444. ISBN 9780979617485.
- ^ Benner, The Indian Foreign Policy Bureaucracy (2019), Sec. 4.2.1: "Bajpai's secretary-general successor was N.R. Pillai, also ICS...".
- ^ List of Persons, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, South Asia, Volume VIII, retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ^ See K. R. Elenkath, supra
- ^ a b c d The India Office and Burma Office List: 1945. Harrison & Sons, Ltd. 1945. p. 301.
- ^ See Sir Raghavan Pillai; Appreciation in The Times (London, England). (15 April 1992): News: p15.
- ^ Pillai, Nisha. "Tandoored Legs". Outlook Magazine. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ^ "Supplement to the London Gazette, 29 January 1937". HMSO. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
- ^ "Supplement to the London Gazette, 6 June 1939". HMSO. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
- ^ "Supplement to the London Gazette, 4 June 1946". HMSO. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
Bibliography
- Benner, Jeffrey (2019). The Indian Foreign Policy Bureaucracy. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-00-030241-7.
External links
- Cabinet Secretariat in India
- Reference to the "late N.R.Pillai" Archived 10 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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- Who's Who A&C Black Press, 1992