N. R. Pillai

Sir N. R. Pillai, KCIE, CBE
Cabinet Secretary
In office
1950–1953
Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru
Preceded bypost established
Succeeded byY. N. Sukthankar
Secretary General, Ministry of External Affairs
In office
1953 - 1959
Preceded byGirija Shankar Bajpai
Succeeded byR. K. Nehru
5th Ambassador of India to France
In office
June 1959 - 1961
Preceded byK. M. Panikkar
Succeeded byAli Yavar Jung
Personal details
Born
Elenkath Narayanan Raghavan Pillai

(1898-07-24)24 July 1898
Travancore
(now in Kerala, India)
Died31 March 1992(1992-03-31) (aged 93)
Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom
NationalityIndian citizenship

Sir Narayanan Raghavan Pillai, of Elenkath,[1] KCIE, CBE (24 July 1898 – 31 March 1992), popularly known as "Rag", was an Indian civil servant. He served as the first Cabinet Secretary in independent India, 1950–1953,[2] and as the second Secretary General in the Ministry of External Affairs,[3][4] He also served as India's Ambassador to France.

  1. ^ Dewan Nanoo Pillai by K. R. Elenkath, Trivandrum, 1982 see chapter titles family members
  2. ^ Kapur, Harish (2009). Foreign Policies of India's Prime Ministers. Delhi: Lancer Publishers. p. 444. ISBN 9780979617485.
  3. ^ Benner, The Indian Foreign Policy Bureaucracy (2019), Sec. 4.2.1: "Bajpai's secretary-general successor was N.R. Pillai, also ICS...".
  4. ^ List of Persons, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, South Asia, Volume VIII, retrieved 8 February 2022.