Bhairab Dutt Pande (17 March 1917 – 2009)[1] was a member of the Indian Civil Service and Union Cabinet Secretary of the Government of India under Indira Gandhi.
He served as the Governor of West Bengal (1981–1983), and Punjab (1983–1984), and the Administrator of Chandigarh for a brief period.
[2][3][4] Born in Almora, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, Pande served as a Cabinet Secretary to the Union Government from 2 November 1972 to 31 March 1977.
[7] He was one of the last living members of the Imperial Civil Service, having entered in the 1939 batch.
He is author of his famous autobiography book released after 5 years of his demise as per his wish name “In the Service of Free India” Memoir of a civil servant, by B D Pande.