death_place death_date birth_place subject nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
bangalore 14 january 1978 -lrb- aged 78 -rrb- mamdapur , belgaum district mathematics karnataka , indian 15px 02 august 1899 d. c. pavate
 d. c. pavate professor , vice-chancellor , governor
d. c. pavate

dadappa chintappa pavate , m.a -lrb- cantab -rrb- -lrb- 2 august 1899 -- 14 january 1978 -rrb- was awarded padma bhushan from the government of india in 1967 .
he was the vice-chancellor of the karnatak university dharwar , and the governor of punjab .
pavate was a cambridge mathematical tripos wrangler .
pavate was born in mamdapur a small village next to gokak town .
his mother was shantamma .
his father was a lingayat farmer .
pavate completed primary schooling from mamdapur and high school from gokak .
he stood first in b.a mathematics to rajaram college , kolhapur of university of bombay then .
pavate went to cambridge to study m.a in mathematics and earned mathematical tripos wrangler .
pavate was married to girijabai from salanhalli village near gokak .
after returning from england , pavate was appointed as educational commissioner of bombay-karnataka .
in the year 1954 , he served as the third vice-chancellor of the karnataka university , dharwar and continued until 1967 .
the rapid development of the institution is credited to him .
in 1967 he was nominated as the governor of punjab , where he served till 1973 .
dr pavate returned to bangalore , to serve basava samiti , bangalore as advisor .
he was instrumental in setting up basava bhavan , near vidhana soudha , bangalore .
he authored two books , `` my days as governor '' and `` my days as educational administrator '' .
dr pavate died in banglore on 17 january 1978 and was cremated in mamdapur , which was his birthplace .
dc pavate visiting scholarship has been established starting 1999 at siney sussex college , cambridge .
it is awarded to outstanding graduates from karnataka .
