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Khushwant Singh, 1915-2014

LC control no.n 50024653
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR9499.3.S53
Personal name headingKhushwant Singh, 1915-2014
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Variant(s)Singh, Khushwant, 1915-2014
K̲h̲ushvant Singh, 1915-2014
Singh, K̲h̲ushvant, 1915-2014
Singh, S. Khushwant, 1915-2014
خشونت سنگھ، 1915-2014
Kuṣvant Ciṅ, 1915-2014
Kushwant Singh, 1915-2014
Associated countryIndia
Birth date1915
Death date2014-03-20
Place of birthHadali (Balochistān, Pakistan)
Place of deathNew Delhi (India)
Field of activityJournalism Fiction
Profession or occupationAuthors Journalists Diplomats
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inThe Sikhs, 1953.
Information from Delhi office (Khushwant Singh)
India WW, 1979-80 (Khushwant Singh; Editor in Chief, New Delhi Magazine, Calcutta)
Päkistān Aikspres, 1996: t.p. (K̲h̲ushvant Singh)
New York times (online), viewed Mar. 21, 2014 (in obituary published Mar. 20: Khushwant Singh; b. 1915 in Hadali, a village in the Thar Desert of what is now Baluchistan Province in Pakistan (his date of birth was not recorded; according to his autobiography, his father invented the date Feb. 2 when he enrolled him in school; Singh later changed it to Aug. 15, based on his grandmother's recollection); d. Thursday [Mar. 20, 2014], New Delhi, aged 99, according to most reports, although by his own account he may have been several months shy of that age; Indian diplomat, author, and journalist who was one of his country's best-known chroniclers of strife and slaughter)
Banda Bahadur, 2009 [originally published 1973]: cover page 2 (S. Khushwant Singh)
E-mail from Amar Chitra Katha, Aug. 11, 2015: (S. Khushwant Singh was the famous journalist)
Matu, maṅkai, mētai, 2004: t.p. (Kuṣvant Ciṅ) t.p. verso (Tamil translation of Kushwant Singh's "Sex, scotch, scholarship" [in rom.])
Associated languageeng