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{{Short description|Indian Air Force officer (1921–2017)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox military person
| honorific_prefix = [[Air Marshal (India)|Air Marshal]]
| name = H C Dewan
| honorific_suffix = [[Param Vishisht Seva Medal|PVSM]]
| birth_date = 20 September 1921
| death_date = 22 August 2017
| allegiance = {{flag|British India}} (1942–1947)<Br/>{{flag|India}} (from 1947)
| branch = {{air force|British India}}<br />{{air force|India}}
| battles = [[Burma Campaign]]
}}
[[File:1971 Instrument of Surrender.jpg|thumbnail|[[Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi|Lt Gen A A K Niazi]] signing the [[Pakistani Instrument of Surrender]] under the gaze of [[Jagjit Singh Aurora|Lt Gen J S Aurora]]. Standing immediately behind (L-R) [[Nilakanta Krishnan|Vice Admiral Krishnan]], Air Marshal Dewan, [[Sagat Singh|Lt. Gen Sagat Singh]], [[J. F. R. Jacob|Maj Gen JFR Jacob]].]]

[[Air Marshal (India)|Air Marshal]] '''Hari Chand Dewan''', {{small|[[Param Vishisht Seva Medal|PVSM]]}} (20 September 1921 – 22 August 2017) was an [[Indian Air Force]] officer. He was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1972 for his services at the head of the [[Eastern Air Command (India)|Eastern Air Command]] in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]].<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=July 21, 2015 | archive-date=19 October 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019215108/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Career ==
Hari Chand Dewan was born on 20 September 1921.<ref name=BR>{{Cite web |title=Service Record for Air Marshal Hari Chand Dewan |url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/1598 |access-date=2022-11-22 |website=Bharat Rakshak |language=en-gb}}</ref> In 1940 he was one of the [[24 Indian pilots (1940)|24 Indian pilots seconded to the UK]].<ref name=Chowdhry2018>{{cite book |last1=Chowdhry |first1=Mohindra S. |title=Defence of Europe by Sikh Soldiers in the World Wars |date=2018 |publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd |location=Leicestershire |isbn=978-1788037-983 |pages=329-383 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twFQDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA329 |language=en |chapter=7. Sikhs in the Second World War}}</ref> In 1969 he received [[Param Vishist Seva Medal]].<ref name=Rotary1969>{{cite book |title=The Rotarian |date=1969 |publisher=Rotary International |page=28 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XTUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28 |language=en}}</ref> He was head of the [[Eastern Air Command (India)|Eastern Air Command]] in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]].<ref name="Batabyal2020">{{cite book |last1=Batabyal |first1=Guru Saday |title=Politico-Military Strategy of the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971 |date=2020 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-31766-4 |page=282 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3QsLEAAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT282 |language=en}}</ref>

==Death==
Dewan died in August 2017 at the age of 95.<ref name=BR/>

==References==
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