Badri Datt Pandey

Badri Datt Pandey (15 February 1882 – 13 February 1965) was an Indian freedom fighter, and subsequently, a Member of Parliament from Almora in independent India. Along with Govind Ballabh Pant, he was one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand (then a part of the United Provinces in British India). He was popularly known as, and remains remembered in the region as, the Kumaon Kesari. [1]

His book in Hindi on the history of Kumaon is a compendium and a treatise on Kumaon, and is titled, Kumaon ka Itihas.[2]

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