{{Short description|Indian diplomat (1933–2024)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Muchkund Dubey | office = Foreign Secretary of India | term_start = 20 April 1990 | term_end = 30 November 1991 | predecessor = Shilendra Kumar Singh | successor = J.N. Dixit | office2 = High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh | term2 = 1979–1982 | birth_date = {{birth date text|1933}} | birth_place = Deoghar, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India | death_date = {{death date and given age|2024|06|26|90|df=y}} | death_place = Delhi, India }}
'''Muchkund Dubey''' (1933 – 26 June 2024) was an Indian diplomat and Foreign Secretary, the administrative head of the Indian Foreign Service, Government of India.<ref>[http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/raug2003/09082003/r090820032.html Jaitley seeks consensus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605193623/http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/raug2003/09082003/r090820032.html |date=5 June 2011 }}, pib.nic.in. Accessed 28 February 2024.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/world/india-seeks-to-extend-treaty-with-soviets.html India's Foreign Secretary, Muchkund Dubey, discussed] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703234006/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/world/india-seeks-to-extend-treaty-with-soviets.html |date=3 July 2017 }}, ''New York Times'', 24 March 1991.</ref><ref>[http://www.gopio.net/news_special_edition.htm Away but not Apart: Evolving Relationships between India and Her Diaspora] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726173346/http://www.gopio.net/news_special_edition.htm |date=26 July 2008 }}, gopio.net. Accessed 28 February 2024.</ref>
==Life and career== Dubey served as President of the Council for Social Development (CSI), and Chairman of the Asian Development Research Institute, Patna. He was also a Professor in International Relations at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and a Professor Emeritus at the Foreign Service Institute.<ref>[http://fsi.mea.gov.in/fsi/mystart.php?page=professors.htm List of the Professor Emeritus at the Foreign Service Institute] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227101651/http://fsi.mea.gov.in/fsi/mystart.php?page=professors.htm |date=27 December 2008 }} Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of External Affairs.</ref>
Dubey died on 26 June 2024, at the age of 90.<ref>{{cite news |date=26 June 2024 |title=Former Foreign Secretary Muchkund Dubey passes away at 90 |url=https://www.lokmattimes.com/national/former-foreign-secretary-muchkund-dubey-passes-away-at-90/ |access-date=10 July 2024 |publisher=Lokmat Times}}</ref>
==Works== * {{cite book | last = Dubey | first = Muchkund | title = Communal revivalism in India: a study of external implications | publisher = Har-Anand Publications | location = New Delhi | year = 1994 | isbn = 9788124101971 }} * {{cite book | last = Dubey | first = Muchkund | title = Indian society today: challenges of equality, integration, and empowerment | publisher = Har-Anand Publications | location = New Delhi | year = 1995 | isbn = 9788124103296 }} * {{cite book | last = Dubey | first = Muchkund | title = Subhas Chandra Bose: the man and his vision | publisher = Har-Anand Publications | location = New Delhi | year = 1998 | isbn = 9788124105825 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Dubey | first1 = Muchkund | last2 = Balakrishnan | first2 = Rajiv | title = Social development in independent India: paths tread and the road ahead | publisher = Pearson Longman | location = Delhi, India | year = 2008 | isbn = 9788131772638 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Dubey | first1 = Muchkund | last2 = Jabbi | first2 = M. K. | title = A Social charter for India: citizens' perspective of basic rights | publisher = Pearson Longman | location = Delhi, India | year = 2009 | isbn = 9788131726679 }} * {{cite book | last = Dubey | first = Muchkund | title = India's foreign policy: coping with the changing world | publisher = Pearson | location = Delhi | year = 2013 | isbn = 9788131730577 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Dubey | first1 = Muchkund | last2 = Hussain | first2 = Akmal | title = Democracy, sustainable development, and peace: new perspectives on South Asia | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New Delhi | year = 2014 | isbn = 9780198092346 }}
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