Dhar, 1 March 1919 – 19 July 2012) was an Indian economist and the head of Indira Gandhi's secretariat and one of her closest advisers.
He attended Tyndale Biscoe School in Srinagar, India, and then studied economics at the Hindu College of the University of Delhi.
[citation needed] Dhar served as principal secretary to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the tumultuous days of the Emergency (1973–1977).
He served as the United Nations assistant secretary general, research and policy analysis, in New York from 1978 to 1986.
[citation needed] His memoir, Indira Gandhi, the Emergency, and Indian Democracy was published in 2000.