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 Dr.
D.P. Pandey (b.
February 11, 1910). An
academician and educationist of
international renown.
Dr.
Pandey educated at Banaras Hindu
University and the Universities
of Cambridge and Lei den.
He had been in association with
the national freedom struggle in
both its revolutionary and
Gandhian programmes at the cost
of suffering imprisonment twice.
He joined the
Vishwa
Bharati and came
close to
Gurudeva Rabindra Nath
Tagore. Imbued with
idealism, he left for Europe to
study and help in the
philological restoration, of
some abstruse old Javanese
Sanskrit text in the Kern
Institute, Holland. He unraveled
the mystery of the Kavi language
as found ensconce in those
recondite works.
He took his Ph.D degree from
Cambridge University. In 1939 he
was awarded the Doctor of
letters degree by the Kern
Institute.
On his return from Europe he had
a breakthrough in the field of
education, as he was encouraged
by Tagore's keen desire to found
an institution for educating the
youth in the Himalayas on the
Dehradun, so in the year of 1941
at , he established Manava
Bharati. For which he received
accolades from
Mahatma
Gandhi,
Dr.
Rajendra Prasad and
Dr.
Saravapalli Radhakrishnan.
It subsequently has flourished
into three purposive centers at
Mussoorie, Dehradun and Delhi.
His philanthropy and under
standing of the unity of man
earned for him, the honor of The
Order of St. John in 1966 and
gave him the chance of being a
globetrotter. More than a
scholar,
Dr. Pandey is a
humanist who has espoused the
cause of the upliftment of the
downtrodden in society,
emancipation of women and
efflorescence of child education
in which directions he was made
an indelible debt.
He left for his heavenly home on
the (26th of September 1989),
may his soul rest in peace
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