<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Novelist, journalist, historian, administrator, diplomat </Td> </Tr> <P> Sardar Kavalam Madhava Panikkar (3 June 1895--10 December 1963) was an Indian statesman and diplomat also famed as a Professor, newspaper editor, historian and novelist . He was born in Travancore, then a princely state in the British Indian Empire and was educated in Madras and at the University of Oxford . </P> <P> After a period as a professor at Aligarh Muslim University and later at University of Calcutta, he became editor of Hindustan Times in 1925 . Later, he was appointed Secretary to the Chamber of Princes, whence he moved to Patiala State and then to Bikaner State as Foreign Minister later becoming the latter's Prime Minister . When India achieved political independence, Sardar Madhava Panikkar represented the country at the 1947 session of the UN General Assembly . In 1950, he was appointed India's (the first non-Socialist country to recognize People's Republic of China) Ambassador to China . After a successful tenure there, he went as Ambassador to Egypt in 1952 . He was appointed a member of the States Reorganisation Commission set up in 1953 . He was also India's Ambassador to France and a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament . He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kashmir and the University of Mysore . </P> <P> Madhava Panikkar was born to Puthillathu Parameswaran Namboodiri and Chalayil Kunjikutti Kunjamma in the princely state of Travancore in 1894 . He completed his basic studies at CMS College School, Kottayam and St. Paul's School, Vepery, Madras . Later on he joined Madras Christian College for intermediate classes . At MCC he was a contemporary of Puthezhath Raman Menon, Nandyelath Padmanabha Menon and Sadasiva Reddy among others . He left for England in April 1914 to read history at Christ Church, University of Oxford . After leaving Oxford, Panikkar read for the bar at the Middle Temple, London . </P>

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