Birendra Narayan Chakraborty (also Birendra Narayan Chakravarty) (20 December 1904 – 26 March 1976) was an Indian civil servant, politician and the second

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. He attended Kolkata's

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, and continued his education at the

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. He joined

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for a BSc in chemistry in 1926. After further studies for the Indian Civil Service examinations at the

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, London, he passed the examinations in 1928 and joined the ICS in October 1929 as an assistant collector and magistrate in the

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. He was promoted to joint magistrate and deputy collector in July 1930 and to additional district and sessions judge (officiating) in June 1935. In February 1936, he was promoted to full

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and collector, and was appointed a joint secretary with the Finance Department of the Government of Bengal in April 1944. As an acting secretary, he was appointed an Officer of the

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(OBE) in the

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list. After Indian independence, he served in many government posts. He was Indian Ambassador of Netherlands from 1952 - 1954 and high commissioner for India to the United Kingdom and Canada. Later he served as Governor of

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land a ...

from 15 September 1967 until his death in office on 26 March 1976, aged 71.

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Scottish Church College alumni University of Calcutta alumni Alumni of the University of London Alumni of University College London Governors of Haryana Indian civil servants Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Indian Officers of the Order of the British Empire 1904 births 1976 deaths Ambassadors of India to the Netherlands {{India-diplomat-stub