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DR. T C A RAGHAVAN

Director General, ICWA

Dr. T C A Raghavan retired from the Indian Foreign Service in December 2015
while Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan (2013-15). He had earlier served as
Deputy High Commissioner in Pakistan (2003-2007) and High Commissioner
to Singapore from 2009 to 2013.
During his last posting in New Delhi (2007-09) in the Ministry of External
Affairs Dr Raghavan was Joint Secretary dealing with Pakistan, Afghanistan
and Iran. He has also served in Kuwait, the United Kingdom, and Bhutan.
Posts held earlier in the Ministry of External Affairs include Director of the
Office of the External Affairs Minister (2000-2003). He was awarded a PhD
by the Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1992 for his dissertation relating to the
economic history of India. His current interests are historical research, strategic
analysis and the diplomatic and intellectual history of modern India. He writes,
lectures and participates in discussions on issues relating to Indian and South
Asian diplomatic history, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and South East Asia.

He is the author of (i) Attendant Lords, Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim-
Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, awarded the Mohammad Habib Memorial
Prize by the Indian History Congress in December 2017. (ii) ‘The People Next
Door- The Curious History of India’s relations with Pakistan’. (Harper Collins,
2017). His latest book is entitled “History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G.S. Sardesai,
Raghubir Sinh and their quest for India’s Past” (2019).
He assumed charge as Director General, Indian Council of World Affairs on 24th
July, 2018.

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