{{Short description|Indian writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox scientist | name =Bal Ram Nanda | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1917 | birth_place= | death_date = 30 May 2010 (aged 93) | death_place = | fields =History | alma_mater ={{Plainlist| *Lahore University }} | notable_students = }}
'''Bal Ram Nanda''' (1917 – 30 May 2010) was an Indian historian and biographer from New Delhi.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50-26583 Bal Ram Nanda] World catalogue.</ref> He was the preeminent Indian biographer of Mahatma Gandhi.
==Career== After studying history at Lahore University, B.R. Nanda joined the Indian Railways Services, and served as a senior railway officer.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Gandhian Writer, Bal Ram Nanda, Sughosh India |url=http://bapu.sughosh.in/2012/08/the-gandhian-writer-bal-ram-nanda }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}Complete Life of Bapu, Sughosh India</ref>
He was the first Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi.<ref name=raj/>
==Awards== *Padma Bhushan, 1988, *Padma Vibhushan, 2003.<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954-2007) |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs |date=2007-05-30 |url=http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/PadmaAwards1954-2007.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410024701/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/PadmaAwards1954-2007.pdf |archive-date=2009-04-10 }}</ref>
==Death== Nanda died on 30 May 2010 at his New Delhi residence.<ref name=raj>[http://www.rajbhavansikkim.gov.in/MessageDetl.aspx?MsgID=21 BALRAM NANDA (1917–2010)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019234345/http://rajbhavansikkim.gov.in/MessageDetl.aspx?MsgID=21 |date=19 October 2011 }} Raj Bhavan (Sikkim), 1 June 2010</ref>
==Works== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=_6FAAAAAMAAJ&q=Bal%20Ram%20Nanda ''Mahatma Gandhi: A biography''] (translated into French, Spanish, Italian and several Indian languages).<ref name=raj/> *''Gandhi and his critics''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nanda |first=Bal Ram |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDJuAAAAMAAJ&q=Bal%20Ram%20Nanda |title=Gandhi and His Critics |date=1985 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-561722-1 |language=en}}</ref> *''Gokhale, Gandhi, and the Nehrus''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nanda |first=Bal Ram |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-C1AAAAIAAJ&q=Bal%20Ram%20Nanda |title=Gokhale, Gandhi and the Nehrus: Studies in Indian Nationalism |date=1974 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-0-04-954018-7 |language=en}}</ref> *''In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nanda |first=Bal Ram |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2jNuAAAAMAAJ&q=Bal%20Ram%20Nanda |title=In Search of Gandhi: Essays and Reflections |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-565649-7 |language=en}}</ref> *''Gandhi: pan-Islamism, imperialism, and nationalism in India'' *''Motilal Nehru'' (Builders of modern India), Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1964 *''Socialism in India'', Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Vikas Publications, 1972 *{{cite book |title= Gandhi: a Pictorial Biography |url= https://archive.org/details/gandhipictorialb00nand |year= 1972 |publisher= New Delhi Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting |isbn= 9788123001982 |oclc= 540771 }} *''Gandhi and his critics'', Oxford Univ. Pr., 1985 *''Road to Pakistan'' 2010
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Nanda,%20Bal%20Ram]
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