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Giridhar Dattatrey Deshingkar (January 8, 1932 - November 3, 2000) was an eminent China scholar and a strategic thinker of India. Born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, Giri, as he was popularly known, obtained his BA (Hons) in Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 1962. After returning to India, he briefly taught the Chinese language and ancient Chinese history at Delhi University. In 1964, he was among the few scholars selected by the Ford Foundation to specialise in Chinese studies at Yale University. He returned to Delhi University in 1968, when the Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies was started. For the next ten years, Giri Deshingkar taught the Chinese language and courses on traditional China in the