Sardar Bhim Bahadur Pande Kshatri | |
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सरदार भीम बहादुर पाँडे क्षत्री | |
Nepalese Ambassador to India | |
In office 21 May 1969 – 24 May 1972 | |
Preceded by | Jharendra Narayan Singh |
Succeeded by | Krishna Bom Malla |
Personal details | |
Children | 5 sons; Late General Sagar Bahadur Pande, General. Pawan Bahadur Pande, Himalaya Bahadur Pande, Prithvi Bahadur Pande, Dr.Shanta Bahadur Pande [1] |
Bhim Bahadur Pande (Nepali: भीमबहादुर पाँडे) was Nepalese diplomat, bureaucrat and historian.[2][3] He served as Nepalese Ambassador to India from May 21, 1969 to May 24, 1972.[4] Sardar Bhim Bahadur also served to Juddha Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana during his youth. He helped out to industrialize the Nepalese Tarai. He later wrote a book about challenges of industrialization in Terai called Tyas Bakhat Ko Nepal.[5] He was a member of representative group of Nepal in the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship. He wrote in the same book about the prejudiced and dominant behaviour of Indian authority on signing the Treaty.[6] He also wrote about tyranny of Rana dynasty in the Nepalese literature and education sector.[7]
He also wrote book on genealogy of his ancestral Pande dynasty called Rastra Bhaktiko Jhalak: Panday Bamsa ko Bhumika.[8] His 5 sons are Nepal Army General Sagar Bahadur Pande, Lieu. Gen. Pawan Bahadur Pande, Himalaya Bahadur Pande, Prithvi Bahadur Pande and Shanta Bahadur Pande.[1] Among them Prithvi Bahadur Pande is a renowned Banker[2] and chairman of Nepal Investment Bank.[9]