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'''Moti K. Kripalani''' ([[International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration|IAST]]: {{IAST|Motī K Kripalāni}}), [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]], was an Sindhi Indian civil servant who went to serve as ''Chief Commissioner'' of [[Ajmer State|Ajmer]] and [[Puducherry (union territory)|Pondicherry]].<ref name="ref2004">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFqbAAAAMAAJ|title=Cabinet Responsibility to Legislature|work= G. C. Malhotra|page=977|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|year=2004|isbn=9788120004009}}</ref><ref name="CivicAffairs1956">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YfwmAQAAIAAJ|title=Civic Affairs, Volume 4, Issues 1-6|work= S.P. Mehra|publisher=Citizen Press at Kanpur|year=1956|pages=95}}</ref><br />
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==Chief Commissioner of Pondicherry==<br />
The state of Pondicherry comprised ex-French settlements in India after their de facto transfer in October 1954. Kripalani succeeded [[Kewal Singh]] as the chief commissioner of Pondicherry on 16 November 1956.<ref name="CivicAffairs1956"/> The political musings of [[1st Pondicherry Representative Assembly]] during its tenure became quite a sensation, and they caught the attention of then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and others. Some of his decisions were criticized by political leaders of Pondicherry, who rued that delay in ''de jure transfer''{{refn|group=note|The de facto transfer of French settlements in India occurred in November 1954. In January 1955, The Indian union government by an order renamed the four French settlements in India as '''State of Pondicherry'''.<ref name="IAR1955">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JncPAQAAIAAJ|title=Indian Affairs Record (Vol. I and II)|publisher=Diwan Chand Indian Information Center|year=1955}}</ref>{{rp|20}} A treaty of cession was signed between India and France in 1956.<ref name="Traité de Cession, 1956">{{cite web|url=https://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/asie/Inde-traite-cession-pondichery1956.htm|title=Traité de cession des Établissements français de Pondichéry, Karikal, Mahé et Yanaon|language=French|year=1956|access-date=31 July 2022}}</ref> However, the [[Algerian war]] delayed the ratification of 1956 treaty by French parliament which finally happened during August 1962. This had some implications on the political and administrative aspects of the State of Pondicherry. }} is one of the main reasons as the [[Pondicherry Representative Assembly|Pondicherry assembly]] had only an advisory role and the Chief Commissioner could take decisions overriding the assembly.<ref name="ref1957">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_0mAQAAIAAJ|title=Civil Affairs|volume=5|publisher=Monthly Journal of Local Govt. and Public Administration in India|year=1957}}</ref>{{rp|103}} <br />
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== Joint Secretary of the Commerce and Labor Department ==<br />
He also served as Joint Secretary of the Commerce and Labour Department. During this period, only he was appointed by Bengal Governor Herbert to assist L.G. Pinnell to pursue the policy of denial in Bengal.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mukherjee |first=Janam |title=Hungry Bengal: war, famine and the end of empire |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-020988-9 |location=New York, NY}}</ref><br />
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==Autobiography==<br />
He has recounted some important events in his life and civil service in his book ''Some Memories of Old Bengal''.<ref>Moti K. Kriplani, Some Memories of Old Bengal, in Punjabi (ed.), p. 130.</ref> In that book, he mentions that as a higher civil servant in those days, he pursued particular hobbies and other recreational activities during his posting in [[Rajshahi]] (now in [[Bangladesh]]).<ref name="Bureaucracy1974">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqP2199s6TIC|title=Bureaucracy: Positions and Persons|work= Narendra K. Singhi|publisher=Abhinay Publications, New Delhi|year=1974|isbn=9780883862940 }}</ref>{{rp|262}}<br />
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==Offices held==<br />
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{{Succession box | before= Chandrakant Balwantrao Nagarkar | title=''Chief commissioner'' of [[Ajmer State|Ajmer]] | after=Gurumukh Nihal Singh<br>{{small|([[List of governors of Rajasthan|Governor of Rajasthan]])}}|years=March 1946 – 31 October 1956}}<br />
{{Succession box | before= [[Kewal Singh]] | title=''Chief commissioner'' of State of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Pondicherry]] | after=[[Lal Ram Saran Singh]]|years=16 November 1956 – 27 August 1958}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Ajmer State]]<br />
* [[List of lieutenant governors of Puducherry]]<br />
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