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{{Short description|Indian civil servant and diplomat (1901–1956)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Krishna Krishna Chettur
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|office2 = [[List of ambassadors of India to Japan|Ambassador of India to Japan]]
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|term_start2 = 28 April
|term_end2 = September 1952
|predecessor2 = ''Embassy established''
|successor2 = M. A. Rauf
|office3 = Ambassador of India to Burma
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|term_start3 = September 1952
|term_end3 = 30 August 1954
|predecessor3 = Muhammad Abdul Rauf
|successor3 = Radhey Raman Saksena
|office4 = Ambassador of India to Belgium and Luxembourg<ref name="Embassy of India: Belgium, Luxembourg, EU">{{cite web|title=Embassy of India: Belgium, Luxembourg & the European Union|url=http://www.indembassy.be/pages.php?id=375|website=Embassy of India: Belgium, Luxembourg & the European Union|accessdate=13 August 2017|archive-date=13 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813225350/http://www.indembassy.be/pages.php?id=375|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|term_start4 = 30 August 1954
|term_end4 = 29 April 1956<br><small>(''died in office'')</small>
|predecessor4 = P. A. Menon
|successor4 = B. N. Kaul
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|death_place = [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]]
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|relatives = [[C. Sankaran Nair]] {{small|(uncle)}}
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[[File:K.K._Chettur,_Indian_Ambassador_to_Japan_shaking_hands_with_Katsuo_Okazaki,_Japanese_Foreign_Minister,_after_signing_the_Indo-Japanese_Treaty_of_Peace_in_Tokyo.jpg | thumb | right | K.K. Chettur, Indian Ambassador to Japan shaking hands with Katsuo Okazaki, Japanese Foreign Minister, after signing the Indo-Japanese Treaty of Peace in Tokyo]]
'''Krishna Krishna Chettur''' [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|ICS]] (10 March 1901 – 29 April 1956) was an Indian civil servant and diplomat who served as India's first ambassador to Japan.

==Career==
After university, during which he took an MA, Chettur entered the Indian Civil Service on 5 March 1925, serving in the Indian Audit Department.<ref name="chettur">{{cite book|pages=160|title=The India Office and Burma Office List: 1945|first= |last=|publisher=Harrison & Sons, Ltd.|year=1945|isbn=|subject=}}</ref> From October 1930 to April 1933, he was posted as a currency officer in Rangoon (now [[Yangon]]), the capital of [[British Burma]] (now [[Myanmar]]) and then a province of British India.<ref name="chettur"/> From 1933 until May 1937, he served in the same role in Calcutta (now [[Kolkata]]) before being posted to the Finance Department of the Government of India as an under-secretary. He was promoted to deputy secretary (''ex-officio'') in April 1940 and to deputy secretary in the Commerce Department in August 1944.<ref name="chettur"/> Following India's independence in August 1947, he rose to the officiating rank of a Secretary in the Commerce Department.<ref name="Gazette_of_India">{{cite web|title=The Gazette of India - Extraordinary (Ministry of External Affairs: Notification)|url=http://pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_16/ACC%20NO%20285-BR/EXT-1956-04-30_5572.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|accessdate=13 August 2017}}</ref>

From 8 March 1950, Chettur was posted to [[Tokyo]] as the Head of the Indian Liaison Mission and Political Representative of India with the [[Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers|Supreme Commander Allied Powers]] (SCAP), in which capacity he held the personal rank of a Minister.<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 2 |page=2 |date=1 April 1950|url=https://egazette.gov.in/WriteReadData/1950/O-2343-1950-0001-108679.pdf |publisher=[[The Gazette of India]]}}</ref> He was promoted to the rank of Ambassador on 24 November 1951.<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 2 |page=358 |date=1 December 1951|url=https://egazette.gov.in/WriteReadData/1951/O-2307-1951-0048-107867.pdf |publisher=[[The Gazette of India]]}}</ref> On 28 April 1952, following India's official peace treaty with Japan, he was appointed India's first Ambassador to Japan, with effect from 7 May 1952,<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 2 |page=176 |date=7 June 1952|url=https://egazette.gov.in/WriteReadData/1952/O-2276-1952-0023-105682.pdf |publisher=[[The Gazette of India]]}}</ref> and served in that role until 25 July 1952, when he was appointed Ambassador to Burma.<ref>{{cite web|title=India's New Ambassadors to Japan and Burma|url=http://pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_14/ACC%20NO%20274-BR/EXT-1952-07-25_2571.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|accessdate=13 August 2017}}</ref> In September 1954, he was appointed as Ambassador to [[Belgium]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Shri K. K. Chettur Appointed Ambassador to Belgium|url=http://pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_15/ACC%20NO%20278-BR/EXT-1954-07-19_3849.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|accessdate=13 August 2017}}</ref> formally retiring from government service on his 55th birthday, but continuing to serve as Ambassador to Belgium.<ref name="Gazette_of_India"/> Just over a month later, while playing [[golf]], he succumbed to a sudden [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in Brussels on 29 April 1956.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title = Jaya Jaitly: A journey into the self | date=31 August 2002 | newspaper=The Times of India|url = https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/delhi-times/Jaya-Jaitly-A-journey-into-the-self/articleshow/20778144.cms|accessdate = 12 August 2019}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Chettur was born into a distinguished political family. His uncle was Sir [[C. Sankaran Nair]], a judge of the [[Madras High Court]] and the [[President of the Indian National Congress]] in 1897, who subsequently served as [[Advocate-General]] of the [[Madras Presidency]] from 1906 to 1908. Among his cousins was the [[Indian Army]] general [[Kunhiraman Palat Candeth]].{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

Chettur's daughter [[Jaya Jaitly]] is a noted socialist politician and activist who founded the [[Samata Party]]; his granddaughter Aditi is married to [[cricketer]] [[Ajay Jadeja]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ajay Jadeja wife's Aditi Jadeja: Family Bio|url=https://www.playersgf.com/2017/10/ajay-jadeja-wifes-aditi-jadeja-family.html|access-date=2022-01-14|website=PlayersGF.com - Girlfriend, Wife, Wags & Boyfriend Photo}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:20th-century Indian civil servants]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of India to Luxembourg]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of India to Japan]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of India to Myanmar]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of India to Belgium]]
[[Category:Politicians from Kerala]]
[[Category:Malayali people]]
[[Category:1901 births]]
[[Category:1956 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian politicians]]

K. K. Chettur - Revision history

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