Durga Prasad Dhar (1918 - 1975) was a prominent Kashmiri

Kashmiri Pandit

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 politician who was a confidant of Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi

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. He served as Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union, and as a minister in the Kashmir and Delhi

New Delhi

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 administrations.

Dhar played a sterling role in assisting the Indian Army

Indian Army

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 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947

Indo-Pakistani War of 1947

The India-Pakistan War of 1947-48, sometimes known as the First Kashmir War, was fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu from 1947 to 1948. It was the first of four wars fought between the two newly independent nations...

. He helped the Indian officers interact with the population and collect porters, mules and other kinds of administrative help which made the soldiers' jobs much easier.

He negotiated the 1971 Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation

Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation

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 and was a principal architect of India's military intervention in neighboring East Pakistan's civil war, which led to the creation of independent Bangladesh.

The D.P. Dhar Hall at Embassy of India in Moscow

Embassy of India in Moscow

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is named in his honour.