Anil Kumar Chanda (23 May 1906 - 21 April 1976) was elected to the

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, the lower house of the

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as a member of the

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. He was the Deputy Minister of External Affairs and later Deputy Minister, Works, Housing and Supply Ministry in the Nehru Ministry. He studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and worked as chief secretary to Rabindranath Tagore in Shantiniketan. He and his wife author Rani Chanda (1912-1997) were the closest associates of Rabindranath Tagore during the last decade of his life. Rani Chanda gifted a few beautiful memoirs of that period to the Bengali readers. They had one son, Abhijit Chanda. They eventually settled in Shantiniketan.

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Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
Indian National Congress politicians from West Bengal India MPs 1952–1957 India MPs 1957–1962 India MPs 1967–1970 Lok Sabha members from West Bengal 1906 births 1976 deaths {{WestBengal-INC-politician-stub