deaths
December 10, 1963
K. M. Panikkar, Indian historian and diplomat (born 1894)
K. M. Panikkar
Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, popularly known as Sardar K. M. Panikkar, was an Indian statesman and diplomat. He was also a professor, newspaper editor, historian and novelist. He was born in Travancore, then a princely state in the British Indian Empire and was educated in Madras and at the University of Oxford.