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| birth_date = 24 July 1905<br />
| birth_place = Burfu, [[Johar Valley]], [[Uttarakhand]], India<br />
| death_date = 1976<br />
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| parents = Rai Saheb Soban Singh<br />
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'''Lakshman Singh Jangpangi''' was an Indian civil servant and a former Indian Trade Agent at [[Gartok]] and [[Yatung]] regions.<ref name="Apna Uttarakhand">{{cite web | url=http://www.apnauttarakhand.com/laxman-singh-jangpangi-padmshree/ | title=Apna Uttarakhand | publisher=Apna Uttarakhand | date=2015 | access-date=23 April 2015}}</ref> He was born on 24 July 1905 at Burfu, in the [[Johar Valley]] of the Indian state of [[Uttarakhand]] to Rai Saheb Sohan Singh, a rich official of the British administration. He did his schooling in [[Almora]] and completed BA Final at [[Allahabad University]].<ref name="Apna Uttarakhand" /><br />
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Lakshman Singh joined the British Trade Agency in 1930 at their base in Gartok, in the western Tibet as an accountant and got promoted as the working Trade Agent in 1941.<ref name="Apna Uttarakhand" /> In 1946, he became the Trade Agent and continued in the post till 1959 when he was transferred to Yatung region.<ref name="Indian Presence in Tibet">{{cite web | url=http://www.claudearpi.net/index.php?nav=documents&id=22&lang=1 | title=Indian Presence in Tibet | publisher=Clause Arpi | date=2015 | access-date=23 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="Notes">{{cite web | url=http://www.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/60_01_17_ITA_Gyantse_Mohd_Sayeed.pdf | title=Notes | publisher=Claude Arpi | date=2015 | access-date=23 April 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090501/http://www.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/60_01_17_ITA_Gyantse_Mohd_Sayeed.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He retired from service in 1962 with the abolition of Trade Agencies.<ref name="Claude Arpi profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/Jangpangi.pdf | title=Claude Arpi profile | publisher=Claude Arpi | date=2015 | access-date=23 April 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072830/http://www.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/Jangpangi.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Government of India]] honoured him in 1959, with the award of [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award for his services to the nation.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |access-date=11 November 2014 |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><br />
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Lakshman Singh Jangpangi died at [[Haldwani]], aged 71, in 1976.<ref name="Apna Uttarakhand" /><br />
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* [[Foreign relations of Tibet]]<br />
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