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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Bhairab Dutt Pandey
| image               = Bhairab Dutt Pandey Official portrait 1983.jpg
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| caption             = 
| office              = [[List of Governors of West Bengal|10th Governor of West Bengal]]
| term_start          = 12 September 1981
| term_end            = 10 October 1983
| 1blankname          = Chief Minister
| 1namedata           = [[Jyoti Basu]]
| predecessor         = [[Tribhuvan Narain Singh]]
| successor           = [[Anant Sharma]]
| order1              = 12th
| office1             = Cabinet Secretary of India
| term_start1         = 2 November 1972
| term_end1           = 31 March 1977
| primeminister1      = [[Indira Gandhi]]
| predecessor1        = [[T. Swaminathan]]
| successor1          = [[Nirmal Kumar Mukarji|N. K. Mukarji]]
| birth_date          = 17 March 1917
| birth_place         = [[Almora district]], [[Uttarakhand]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|2009|4|4|1917|3|17|df=y}}{{fact|date=May 2020}}
| death_place         = Almora{{fact|date=May 2020}}
| restingplace        = 
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| othername           = 
| occupation          = [[Indian Civil Service]]
| yearsactive         = 
| known_for           = Civil Service
| spouse              = Vimla
| domesticpartner     = 
| children            = 3
| parents             = 
| website             = 
| awards              = [[Padma Vibhushan]], [[Padma Shri]]
}}

'''Bhairab Dutt Pandey'''  (born 17 March 1917; died 4 April 2009){{fact|date=May 2020}} was a member of the [[Indian Civil Service]] and [[Cabinet Secretary of India|Union Cabinet Secretary]] of the [[Government of India]] under [[Indira Gandhi]]. He served as the [[Governor of West Bengal]] (1981–1983), and [[Governor of Punjab (India)|Punjab]] (1983–1984), and the [[Administrator of Chandigarh]] for a brief period.<ref>[http://chandigarh.gov.in/admn_old_admrs.htm Administrators] ''[[Chandigarh]]'' Official website.</ref><ref>[http://rulers.org/indstat4.html Governors 1947-]</ref><ref name="Pande takes top post for two years">{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020911/asp/nation/story_1187782.asp | title=Pande takes top post for two years | publisher=Telegraph | date=11 September 2002 | access-date=22 December 2015}}</ref>

Born in [[Almora]], in the Indian state of [[Uttarakhand]], Pandey served as a Cabinet Secretary to the [[Government of India|Union Government]] from 2 November 1972 to 31 March 1977.<ref name="Cabinet Secretariat - Cabinet Secretaries Since 1950">{{cite web | url=http://cabsec.nic.in/about_cabinet.php | title=Cabinet Secretariat - Cabinet Secretaries Since 1950 | publisher=Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=23 December 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310080436/http://cabsec.nic.in/about_cabinet.php | archive-date=10 March 2010 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> When President's rule was imposed on Punjab, he served as the Governor of the state.<ref name="Daunting task before Punjab Governor B.D. Pande and his advisors">{{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/daunting-task-before-punjab-governor-b.d.-pande-and-his-advisors/1/372096.html | title=Daunting task before Punjab Governor B.D. Pande and his advisors | publisher=India Today | date=17 July 2013 | access-date=23 December 2015}}</ref>

Pandey was married to Vimla Pande.<ref name="Grace without measure" /> They had three children: Arvind Pandey,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=7407309&privcapId=242581190&previousCapId=4508901&previousTitle=Essar%20Steel%20India%20Limited|title=Stocks}}</ref> environmentalist [[Lalit Pande|Lalit Pandey]], and Ratna Pandey. His brother-in-law, [[V. C. Pande|Vinod Chandra Pandey]], was also a former Governor and Union Cabinet Secretary.<ref name="Grace without measure">{{cite web | url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/grace-without-measure/15805/ | title=Grace without measure | publisher=Indian Express | date=1 November 2006 | access-date=20 December 2015}}</ref>

He was one of the last living members of the [[Imperial Civil Service]], having entered in the 1939 batch.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34711/pages/6960 The London Gazette, 17 October 1939]</ref>

The Government of India awarded Pandey the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 1972, for his contributions to Indian society<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref> and the [[Padma Vibhushan]] in 2000.

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{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Civil Service}}
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{{Governors of West Bengal}}

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