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{{Infobox Indian politician
| name =Anil Kumar Chanda
| birth_name =
| caption =
| image =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|5|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Silchar]], [[Assam]], [[British India]]
| residence =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|4|21|1906|5|23|df=yes}} <ref name="Sabha2003">{{cite book|author=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha|title=Indian Parliamentary Companion: Who's who of Members of Lok Sabha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLZVAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=24 March 2020|year=2003|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|page=82}}</ref>
| death_place =
| office = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| constituency = [[Bolpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bolpur]], [[West Bengal]]
| term = 1967-1971
| predecessor =
| successor = [[Saradish Roy]]
| office1 =
| constituency1 = [[Birbhum (Lok Sabha constituency)|Birbhum]], [[West Bengal]]
| term1 = 1952-1962
| predecessor1 =
| successor1 = [[Sisir Kumar Das]]
| office2 =
| constituency2 =
| term_start2 =
| predecessor2 =
| successor2 =
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| otherparty =
| spouse = [[Rani Chanda]]
| children =
| website =
| footnotes =
| date =
| year =
| source = http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/645.htm
}}

'''Anil Kumar Chanda''' (born 23 May 1906-21 April 1976) was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]], the lower house of the [[Parliament of India]] as a member of the [[Indian National Congress]]. He was the Deputy Minister of External Affairs and later Deputy Minister, Works, Housing and Supply Ministry in 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 (1912-01997) were the closest associates of Rabindranath Tagore during the last decade of his life. Rani Chanda gifted few beautiful memoirs of that period to the Bengali readers. They had one son, Abhijit Chanda. They eventually settled in Shantiniketan. <ref name="Bose2010">{{cite book|author=Ashish Bose|title=Head Count: Memoirs of a Demographer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jP04qUTfM8C&pg=PT20|accessdate=8 January 2019|date=7 June 2010|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-81-8475-228-1|pages=20–}}</ref><ref name="Singh1954">{{cite book|author=Trilochan Singh|title=Indian Parliament (1952-57): "Personalities"-Series 2 Authentic, Comprehensive and Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of Members of the Two Houses of Parliament|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFvVAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=8 January 2019|year=1954|publisher=Arunam & Sheel|page=52}}</ref><ref name="Reed1958">{{cite book|author=Sir Stanley Reed|title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXEiAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=8 January 2019|year=1958|publisher=Times of India Press|page=1061}}</ref><ref name="PeopleSabha1956">{{cite book|author1=India. Parliament. House of the People|author2=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha|title=Lok Sabha Debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D2TVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3711|accessdate=8 January 2019|year=1956|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat.|pages=3711–}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/645.htm Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]

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Anil Kumar Chanda - Revision history

>Red Director: Adding local short description: "Indian politician", overriding Wikidata description "Indian politician" (Shortdesc helper)

>Iridescent 2: /* top */Cleanup and typo fixing, typo(s) fixed: bengali → Bengali