Yezdezard Dinshaw Gundevia (1908–1986) was an Indian ICS officer, diplomat and Foreign Secretary under Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
[3] He was Nehru's last foreign secretary and also served under Lal Bahadur Shastri during his two-year tenure.
He was also part of the Indian delegation during the Swaran Singh - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto talks on Kashmir during 1962–1963.
[7][8] Gundevia as the Foreign Secretary also led the Indian delegation during the first phase of peace talks with the Naga insurgents in 1965 achieving what he termed "a truce without a political settlement".
These include In the Districts of the Raj about his life as an ICS officer in the United Provinces, The Testament of Sheikh Abdullah, based on his observations on Kashmir's politics and the Sheikh, War and Peace in Nagaland and Outside the Archives which chronicles his diplomatic career.