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|name = Keshav Dev Malaviya<br />
|image = File:Keshav Dev Malviya portrait.gif<br />
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|office1 = Minister of Mines and Fuel<br />
|term_start1 = 10 April 1962<br />
|term_end1 = 27 May 1964<br />
|primeminister1 = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]<br />
|predecessor1 = [[Swaran Singh]]<br />
|successor1 = [[Chidambaram Subramaniam]]<br />
|birth_date = {{birth date|1904|8|11|df=yes}}<br />
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1981|5|27|1904|08|11}}<ref name="obit">{{cite journal |date=17 August 1981 |title=Obituary References |url=https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/2275/1/lsd_07_06_17-08-1981.pdf|journal=Lok Sabha Debates |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=3}}</ref><br />
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|death_place=[[New Delhi]], India<br />
|party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
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'''Keshav Dev Malaviya''' (11 August 1904 – 27 May 1981) was a leader of [[Indian National Congress]] and a union minister of India. He was a member of [[Lok Sabha]] from [[Domariyaganj (Lok Sabha constituency)|Domariyaganj]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He received his degree in oil technology from HBTI Kanpur (now HBTU Kanpur). He served as a [[Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas|Minister of Petroleum]] in the 1970s in the Congress government. He is also known as the Father of the Indian Petroleum Industry.<ref>{{cite web|title=Steps are being taken to contain growth in demand for oil: Keshav Dev Malaviya|date=16 April 2015 |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/economy/story/19761215-steps-are-being-taken-to-contain-growth-in-demand-for-oil-keshav-dev-malaviya-819516-2015-04-16|publisher=India Today|accessdate=24 February 2018}}</ref><br />
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== Notes ==<br />
* {{cite book|last1=Reed|first1=Stanley|authorlink1=Stanley Reed (British politician)|title=The Indian And Pakistan Year Book And Who's Who 1950|date=1950|publisher=[[The Times Group|Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd.]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206/page/n744 710]|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206}}<br />
In honour of K.D. Malaviya, Dibrugarh University, Assam has established a chair for research purpose in the department of Applied Geology, with collaboration with Oil India Ltd. Duliajan in 1991. This chair is dedicated for research in the field of oil and natural gas.<br />
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