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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| honorific_prefix =<br />
| name = P. K. Banerjee<br />
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| caption = Ambassador Banerjee<br />
| alt = P. K. Banerjee<br />
| office = [[Chargé d'affaires]] to [[China]]<br />
| term_start = 1962<br />
| term_end = 1962<br />
| prime_minister = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]<br />
| predecessor = [[Ratan Kumar Nehru]]<br />
| successor = [[Jagat Singh Mehta]]<br />
| office2 = Indian High Commissioner to [[Kenya]]<br />
| term_start2 = 1964<br />
| term_end2 = 1966<br />
| predecessor2 = Prem Krishen<br />
| successor2 = [[:es:Prem Narain Bhatia]]<br />
| office3 = 1st Indian ambassador to [[Costa Rica]]<br />
| term_start3 = 1968<br />
| term_end3 = 1969<br />
| prime_minister3 = [[Indira Gandhi]]<br />
| predecessor3 = <br />
| successor3 = Vishnu Kalyandas Ahuja<br />
| office4 = Indian ambassador to [[Thailand]]<br />
| term_start4 = 1969<br />
| term_end4 = 1971<br />
| predecessor4 = [[K. R. Narayanan]]<br />
| successor4 = [[Romesh Bhandari]]<br />
| office5 = 6th [[Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations|Indian permanent representative]] to the [[United Nations Office at Geneva]]<br />
| term_start5 = August 1971<br />
| term_end5 = August 1973<br />
| prime_minister5 = [[Indira Gandhi]]<br />
| predecessor5 = Natarajan Krishnan<br />
| successor5 = [[Brajesh Mishra]]<br />
| birth_date = 7 December 1917<br />
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], India<br />
| death_date = 2003 <br />
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'''Purnendu Kumar Banerjee'''<ref name=blcat /> (7 December 1917 – 2003) was Indian Chargé d'affaires in [[Beijing]] during the India-China border conflict, also called the [[Sino-Indian War]]. He wrote a short book on his encounters with [[Zhou En Lai]] (1898–1976). Banerjee was a recipient of the 1963 [[Padma Shri]] award, India's fourth highest civilian award. In 1969, he became India's first ambassador to [[Costa Rica]].<ref name="Banerjee2002">{{cite book|author=Purnendu Kumar Banerjee|title=Assignment Americas: perspective of a partnership in values|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjZuAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=12 May 2013|year=2002|publisher=Bibhasa|isbn=978-81-87337-15-7|page=196}}</ref> He was the sixth Ambassador in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Office in Geneva.<ref>{{cite web|title=Former Ambassadors - Permanent Mission of India to the UN, Geneva|url=http://pmindiaun.org/pages.php?id=882|publisher=Permanent Mission of India to UN, Geneva|accessdate=12 May 2013|archive-date=16 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140616062142/http://pmindiaun.org/pages.php?id=882|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
*{{cite book |last=Banerjee | first=Purnendu Kumar |title=My Peking memoirs of the Chinese invasion of India<br />
| year= 1990 | place=New Delhi | publisher=Clarion Books}}<ref name=blcat>[http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=full-set-set&set_number=150038&set_entry=000001&format=999 British Library Catalogue record for ''My Peking memoirs'']</ref><br />
*{{cite book | last=Banerjee | first=Purnendu Kumar | title= Assignment Americas: perspective of a partnership in values | year=2002 | place=Kolkata | publisher = Bibhasa}} <ref name=worldcat>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/052107032 Worldcat record for ''Assignment Americas'']</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n89-144181 P. K. Banerjee publications information] from [[WorldCat]]<br />
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[[Category:Ambassadors of India to Costa Rica]]<br />
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