11 Facts About Subimal Dutt

Subimal Dutt, OBE, ICS was an Indian diplomat and ICS officer.

Subimal Dutt served as India's Commonwealth Secretary and later as Foreign Secretary under Jawaharlal Nehru and was India's ambassador to the Soviet Union, Federal Republic of Germany and Bangladesh.

Subimal Dutt hailed from the village Kanungopara near Chittagong in the Bengal Province.

Subimal Dutt was educated at the Calcutta University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and joined the ICS in 1928.

Subimal Dutt was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1946 Birthday Honours.

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Subimal Dutt returned as Commonwealth Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs and from 12 October 1955 to 11 April 1961 was the longest serving Foreign Secretary of India.

Subimal Dutt was involved in shaping India's response to the Suez and Hungarian crises which happened while he was the foreign secretary.

Subimal Dutt retired in April 1974 protesting against the visit of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to Bangladesh.

Between 1964 and 1968, Subimal Dutt served as the Vigilance Commissioner of West Bengal where, appalled at how corruption had become endemic in public life, he coined the term 'speed money' noting that it had become a way of life.

Subimal Dutt chaired the Industrial Licensing Policy Inquiry Committee, known as the Dutt Committee, whose report in 1969 led to the enactment of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act in India.

Subimal Dutt died on 2 March 1992 in Calcutta following a prolonged illness.