Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c14.s4.t44: Bishambhar Nath Pande
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c14.s4.t44
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Bishambhar Nath Pande
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Bishambhar Nath Pande (December 23, 1906 - June 1, 1998) was born in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh. He was a senior member of the Indian Congress Party, a historian and Chairman of the India China Friendship Association.
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He joined the Indian Congress Party in 1920 as an editor. Since joining the Non-violent and Non-cooperation Movement in 1921, he had been arrested eight times and spent over 10 years in prison. He had been elected as the member of the Rajya Sabha twice. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian Government in 1976 for his outstanding achievements in social service. He was honoured with the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration by Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao, the then Premier of India in 1996 for his contributions in promoting the harmonious co-existence of Hindus and Muslims.
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He participated in founding the Assisting China Committee of Andhra Pradesh and acted as the Chairman during the Anti-Japanese War. He led the compiling of ‘*China Special*’ in 1942 and positively promoted the recovering and development of the relations between the two countries after the 1962 India-China border clash. He changed his duty of Vice
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Bishambar Nath Pande with a Chinese friend, 1992
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Chairman of the India China Friendship Association to the Executive Chairman in 1977, and founded the India-China Society and became its first chairman in August 1982. In October the same year, he led a delegation of India-China Society consisting of 20 members to China and was received by the then Premier Zhao Ziyang. In March 1983, he received the delegation led by Vice-chairman Chu Tunan of NPC organised by CPAFFC. He wrote an article titled ‘*The Long-standing and Well-established Indian and Chinese Friendship*’ at the 40th anniversary of the foundation of CPAFFC to express his wish of the long-term development of the friendly course of the two countries.
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(*Jia Yan*)