D. C. Pavate

D. C. Pavate
Personal details
Born	(1899-08-02)2 August 1899 Mamdapur, Belgaum District
Died	14 January 1978 (aged 78) Bangalore
Nationality	Karnataka, Indian
Occupation	Professor, vice-Chancellor, Governor

Dadappa Chintappa "D. C." Pavate,^[1] M.A (Cantab) (2 August 1899–14 January 1978) was awarded Padma Bhushan ^[2] from the Government of India in 1967. He was the vice-chancellor of the Karnatak university Dharwar, and the Governor of Punjab. Pavate was a Cambridge Mathematical Tripos wrangler.

Pavate was born in Mamdapur a small village next to Gokak town. His mother was Shantamma. His father was a Lingayat farmer. Pavate completed primary schooling from Mamdapur and high school from Gokak. He stood first in B.A Mathematics to Rajaram College, Kolhapur of University of Bombay then. Pavate went to Cambridge to study M.A in mathematics and earned Mathematical Tripos Wrangler. Pavate was married to Girijabai from Salanhalli village near Gokak.

After returning from England, Pavate was appointed as Educational Commissioner of Bombay-Karnataka. In the year 1954, he served as the third vice-chancellor of the Karnataka University, Dharwar and continued until 1967. The rapid development of the institution is credited to him. In 1967 he was nominated as the Governor of Punjab, where he served till 1973. Dr Pavate returned to Bangalore, to serve Basava Samiti, Bangalore as advisor. He was instrumental in setting up Basava Bhavan, near Vidhana Soudha, Bangalore. He authored two books, "My days as Governor" and "My days as educational administrator". Dr Pavate died in Banglore on 17 January 1978 and was cremated in Mamdapur, which was his birthplace.

DC Pavate visiting scholarship has been established starting 1999 at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. It is awarded to outstanding graduates from Karnataka.^[3]

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Padma Bhushan award recipients (1960–69)

1960	Rabindra Nath Chaudhuri Nilakantha Das Raj Rajeshwardatt Shastri Dravid Kazi Nazrul Islam Hafiz Ali Khan Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao Acharya Shivpujan Sahay Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar Haridas Siddhanta Vagish

1961	Tridib Nath Banerjee Rustomji Bomanji Billimoria Seth Govind Das Verrier Elwin Niranjan Das Gulhati L. Venkatakrishna Iyer Rai Krishnadas Sumitranandan Pant Svetoslav Roerich Bhagwan Sahay Bindeshwari Prasad Verma Krishnaswami Venkataraman Ardeshir Ruttonji Wadia

1962	Ramaswamy Duraiswamy Ayyar Gyanesh Chandra Chatterjee Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar Prem Chandra Dhanda Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Jafar Ali Khan Daulat Singh Kothari Mithan Jamshed Lam Sudhansu Sobhan Maitra Sisir Kumar Mitra Tarabai Modak Radhakamal Mukerjee Sudhindra Nath Mukerjee Niaz Fatehpuri Jal R. Patel Narayan Sitaram Phadke V. Raghavan Dukhan Ram T. S. Soundram Mahankali Seetharama Rao Raghunath Saran Moturi Satyanarayana Sitaram Seksaria Santosh Kumar Sen Tarlok Singh Radhika Raman Sinha

1963	Narendra Nath Bery Makhanlal Chaturvedi Omeo Kumar Das Nitish Chandra Laharry Badri Nath Prasad Kanuri Lakshmana Rao Rahul Sankrityayan Ramanlal Gokaldas Saraiya T. R. Seshadri Sardar Harnarain Singh M. L. Soni Ramkumar Verma

1964	Sheikh Abdullah Nuruddin Ahmed Rafiuddin Ahmed Jacob Chandy Kunji Lal Dubey Tushar Kanti Ghosh Anil Bandhu Guha Mohd. Abdul Hai Dara Nusserwanji Khurody Anukul Chandra Mukherjee Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee Bhole Nath Mullik R. K. Narayan Chintaman Govind Pandit Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel Bal Gandharva T. N. Ramachandran Khushwant Lal Wig

1965	Krishnaswami Balasubramanai Iyer Jogesh Chandra Banerjee Joginder Singh Dhillon Appasaheb Patwardhan Bhalchandra Babaji Dikshit P. O. Dunn Narasinh Narayan Godbole Nawang Gombu Sonam Gyatso Kashmir Singh Katoch Akbar Ali Khan S. L. Kirloskar Mohan Singh Kohli Pratap Chandra Lal Mohammad Mujeeb Jayant Narlikar Ramaswamy Rajaram K. R. Ramanathan Satyajit Ray Triguna Sen Santu Jouharmal Shahaney Shiv Sharma Harbaksh Singh Vrindavan Lal Verma Manikya Lal Verma

1966	T. S. Ramaswami Aiyer Babubhai Maneklal Chinai Puliyur Krishnaswamy Duraiswami Verghese Kurien Zubin Mehta K. P. Kesava Menon Bhabani Charan Mukharji Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai K. Shankar Pillai Vikram Sarabhai Vinayak Sitaram Sarwate Homi Sethna Jodh Singh Haribhau Upadhyaya

1967	Mulk Raj Anand Tara Cherian Mulk Ra Chopra Tulsi Das Krishna Kanta Handique Akshay Kumar Jain Pupul Jayakar Ali Akbar Khan D. P. Kohli Ramanathan Krishnan C. K. Lakshmanan T. M. Ponnambalam Mahadevan Kalyanji Vithalbhai Mehta S. I. Padmavati Vasantrao Bandoji Patil D. C. Pavate Datto Vaman Potdar B. Shiva Rao Khwaja Ghulam Saiyidain Asoke Kumar Sarkar Mihir Sen Ravi Shankar Kaikhushru Ruttonji Shroff M. L. Vasanthakumari

1968	Acharya Vishva Bandhu Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar Sudhir Ranjan Sengupta Mary Clubwala Jadhav K. Shivaram Karanth Bismillah Khan Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Sam Manekshaw Mansukhlal Atmaram Master M. G. K. Menon Waman Bapuji Metre Gujarmal Modi Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi Gopalan Narasimhan Benjamin Peary Pal Brahm Prakash Manikonda Chalapathi Rau C. R. Rao Radhanath Rath Jyotish Chandra Ray Mariadas Ruthnaswamy Firaq Gorakhpuri Shripad Damodar Satwalekar G. Sankara Kurup Periyasaamy Thooran Sarda Prasad Varma Shamaprasad Rupshanker Vasavada Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya

1969	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Krishna Chandar Rahim-ud-in Khan Dagar Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala Keshavrao Krishnarao Datey Keshav Prasad Goenka Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Vithalbhai Jhaveri Prithviraj Kapoor Kesarbai Kerkar Krishna Kripalani Adinath Lahiri Gobind Behari Lal Kasturbhai Lalbhai Lata Mangeshkar V. K. Narayana Menon Raman Madhavan Nair Saghar Nizami Nanasaheb Parulekar Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar Vitthal Laxman Phadke Raja Rao Niharranjan Ray Prafulla Kumar Sen Vallabhadas Vithaldas Shah Haroon Khan Sherwani Kasturiswami Sreenivasan Naval Tata S. S. Vasan

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

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