Parvez Dewan is an Indian administrator, author and librettist.
18 Facts About Parvez Dewan
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Parvez Dewan is an Indian Administrative Services officer of Jammu and Kashmir cadre.
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Parvez Dewan became Secretary of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in 2011, and the chairman of the Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre.
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Parvez Dewan's father was a Wing Commander who began his career in the Royal Indian Air Force and grandfather an Army Brigadier, who later became the first Indian Inspector General of Police of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Parvez Dewan was educated at St Joseph's, Allahabad; St George's Grammar, Hyderabad; Stanes, Coimbatore; The Air Force Central School, Subroto Park, New Delhi and St Stephen's College in Delhi.
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Parvez Dewan received his higher education at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
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Parvez Dewan was the Senior Treasurer of the CU Friends of the Earth; and active with the CU Greens and CU Mystical Society.
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Parvez Dewan was later elected a visiting research fellow of Queen Elizabeth House at the University of Oxford.
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Parvez Dewan joined the IAS and was allotted the Jammu and Kashmir cadre.
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Parvez Dewan was the Divisional commissioner of Kashmir from 2001 to 2003.
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Parvez Dewan recorded its three highest-ever profits under him, and declared the only three dividends that it has since 1997.
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In October 2014 Parvez Dewan asked for and was granted voluntary, premature retirement, in order to concentrate on his career as a writer, especially to work on his South Asian encyclopaedia, Indpaedia.
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Parvez Dewan translated the Hanuman Chalisa into English, written The Names of Allah, and brought out Jesus Christ Superstar in Urdu.
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Parvez Dewan has converted Habba Khatun's songs into Urdu songs, set to the same tune.
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Parvez Dewan is the co-author of Tibet: fifty years after with Siddharth Shrivastava.
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Parvez Dewan has researched into various caste and religious groups in India.
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Parvez Dewan has published twenty books till date, some of which are listed in the table below.
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Parvez Dewan seems to have that rare quality to poke fun at himself.