<p>Professor Prithvi Nath Dhar, an eminent economist who served as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970s, died here on Thursday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>He was 94 and died of age-related problems. A professor of Economics in Delhi University for many years, Dhar was one of the founders of the Delhi School of Economics.<br /><br />He served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary General, Research and Policy Analysis, in New York from 1976 to 1978.<br /><br />Dhar, who was the only person in the Prime Minister’s Office those days who was not from either the IAS or the IFS, had joined the PMO in 1970.<br /><br />He was with Indira Gandhi in Shimla when the famous Shimla Accord was signed with the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after the 1971 war with Pakistan.<br /><br />Dhar, whose wife Sheila was a well known singer writer, was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian award in 2008.<br /><br />His memoir ‘Indira Gandhi, the Emergency, and Indian Democracy’ is considered an authoritative documentation of events of the important period in modern India’s history.</p>
<p>Professor Prithvi Nath Dhar, an eminent economist who served as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970s, died here on Thursday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>He was 94 and died of age-related problems. A professor of Economics in Delhi University for many years, Dhar was one of the founders of the Delhi School of Economics.<br /><br />He served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary General, Research and Policy Analysis, in New York from 1976 to 1978.<br /><br />Dhar, who was the only person in the Prime Minister’s Office those days who was not from either the IAS or the IFS, had joined the PMO in 1970.<br /><br />He was with Indira Gandhi in Shimla when the famous Shimla Accord was signed with the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after the 1971 war with Pakistan.<br /><br />Dhar, whose wife Sheila was a well known singer writer, was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian award in 2008.<br /><br />His memoir ‘Indira Gandhi, the Emergency, and Indian Democracy’ is considered an authoritative documentation of events of the important period in modern India’s history.</p>