death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
10 december 1963 kingdom india of travancore -lrb- modern day kerala -rrb- , 1894 k. m. panikkar
 k. m. panikkar novelist , journalist , historian , administrator , diplomat
k. m. panikkar

kavalam madhava panikkar -lrb- 1894 -- 10 december 1963 -rrb- , was an indian novelist , journalist , historian , administrator and diplomat .
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 .
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 went to patiala state as foreign minister and then to bikaner state later becoming its prime minister .
when india achieved freedom , panikkar represented the country at the 1947 session of the un general assembly .
in 1948 , he was appointed india 's ambassador to china .
after a successful tenure there , he went as envoy to egypt in 1952 .
he was appointed as chairman of 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 university of kashmir and university of mysore .
