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{{Short description|Indian civil servant}}

'''Muthusamy Varadarajan''' (1933-2014) was an Indian civil servant. He was a minister at the [[Indian High Commission in London]] from 1979 to 1983, and later served as the permanent secretary in the [[Ministry of Culture (India)|Ministry of Culture]] in [[New Delhi]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Massey |first=Reginald |date=2014-12-07 |title=Muthusamy Varadarajan |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/dec/07/varadarajan-muthusamy-obituary |access-date=2023-10-01 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Morley |first=Grace |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rs-fAAAAMAAJ |title=God & King, the Devarāja Cult in South Asian Art and Architecture: Proceedings of the Seminar, 2001 |date=2005 |publisher=National Museum Institute |isbn=978-81-89233-26-6 |language=en}}</ref>
{{Infobox person
| name = Muthusamy Varadarajan
| other_names = Varad
| nationality = Indian
| alma_mater = [[Madras University]]
| occupation = [[Civil servant]]
| organization = [[Indian Administrative Service]]
| relatives = [[Tunku Varadarajan]] (son), [[Siddharth Varadarajan]] (son), [[Nandini Sundar]] (daughter-in-law)
| honours = [[Legion of Honour]]
}}

==Career==
Varadarajan joined the [[Uttar Pradesh]] cadre of the Indian Administrative Service in 1956. He initiated several district-level community-based schemes to help the poor and the lower castes. He was secular and gained respect of both Hindus and Muslims.<ref name=":0" />

Apart from his later appointments as a minister at the Indian High Commission in London and as the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Culture in New Delhi, he also served as executive director of the Indian Council for Child Welfare, member of the [[National Commission for Minorities]], chairman of the [[National Museum of India]], and president of [[Alliance française|Alliance Française]] in Delhi.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIFTAAAAYAAJ |title=Tattvālokah |date=1991 |publisher=Sri Abhinava Vidyatheertha Educational Trust |language=en}}</ref>

Varadarajan wrote books including "Handcrafted Indian Enamel Jewellery" and "Incredible India: Traditions & Rituals."<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Chakrabarti |first1=Amaresh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kcFEAAAAQBAJ |title=ICoRD'13: Global Product Development |last2=Prakash |first2=Raghu V. |date=2013-01-12 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-81-322-1050-4 |language=en}}</ref>

Varadarajan was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur of the [[French Republic]] in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-04-23 |title=Code of Honour |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/code-of-honour/ |access-date=2023-10-01 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=France conferred the award of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur on Shri Muthusamy Varadarajan : April 01, 2010 |url=https://in.ambafrance.org/France-conferred-the-award-of,6365 |access-date=2023-10-01 |website=La France en Inde / France in India |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==

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[[Category:21st-century Indian politicians]]
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