AC Narayanan Nambiar

AC Narayanan Nambiar ( Arathil Candeth Narayanan Nambiar ; born June 15, 1896 in Tellicherry , † January 17, 1986 ) was an Indian journalist and diplomat .

Life

From 1929 to 1933, Nambiar headed the Indian Students' Information Bureau in Berlin , which formally arranged internships in the German Reich for Indian students and served informally as a representative of the Indian National Congress . The British Council also placed students from the British Empire in the German Empire. The government of the German Reich forbade the Indian Students Information Bureau from any political activity. In 1930 the supporters of the Berlin office in British India were imprisoned and the financial support was taken over by two merchants in Mumbai .

On the day after the Reichstag fire , in the early evening of February 28, 1933, SA men as auxiliary police officers broke into the information office in Nambiar's private apartment in accordance with the ordinance of the Reich President for the protection of the people and the state , confiscated newspaper articles and books and arrested Nambiar and his colleague and sister-in-law Sarojini Naidu . Horace Rumbold protested to Konstantin von Neurath ; he commissioned Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff to look after the case. In the House of Commons , Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood , an MP for the Labor Party , asked Anthony Eden about the condition of Nambiar and his associate Sarojini Naidu. Naidu was released on March 25, 1933, on condition that he had to leave Prussia within a week. Rumbold protested against the mistreatment of Nambiar and Naidu and the expropriation of Nambiar by the authorities of the German Reich without compensation.

Nambiar moved to Prague , where he found a job as a correspondent for Indian newspapers. Subhash Chandra Bose supports Nambiar in founding the Indian Students' Association and the Indian-Czech Society. During a visit to Prague, Jawaharlal commissioned Nehru Nambiar as the European correspondent for The National Herald, which was founded in Lucknow . After the destruction of the rest of Czech Republic, Nambiar migrated to Paris, where he wrote for The Hindu , Amrita Bazar Patrika , Bombay Chronicle and The National Herald .

After the campaign in the west, Nambiar migrated to the control of the Vichy regime . By Pierre Laval was assumed that he sympathetic to stand the Indian independence movement, as the management of French India the government in exile Charles de Gaulle had assumed in London. In August 1941 he met with Subhash Chandra Bose , Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff and Mohammed Iqbal Schedai in Paris, who moved him to return to Berlin, where he stayed until 1947.

From 1948 to 1951 he was Minister Counselor in Bern . From December 1953 to April 1955 he was envoy in Stockholm and was simultaneously accredited to the governments in Copenhagen and Oslo . From 1955 to 1958 he was ambassador in Bonn . He published 25 letters from his correspondence with Jawaharlal Nehru from 1947 to 1962

In 1958 Nambiar was awarded the Padma Bhushan .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Who's who in Germany. Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, 1964, p. 1215 Limited preview in Google Book Search
2. ^ Nehru aide Nambiar not a spy, but a patriot in Deccan Chronicle of October 28, 2014
3. ↑ [1]
4. ↑ Jan Kuhlmann, Subhas Chandra Bose and the India Policy of the Axis Powers, p. 48
5. ↑ Mohammed Iqbal Shedai
6. ↑ Kuhlmann, p. 170

predecessor	Office	successor
MJ Desai	Indian envoy in Stockholm December 1953 to April 1955	Indian Sen Chopra
Subimal bun	Indian ambassador in Bonn 1958 to 1960	Badruddin Tyabji