Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
| Sir Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi | |
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| Governor of Odisha | |
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In office 1 April 1946 – 14 August 1947 |
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| Preceded by | Howthorne Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Kailash Nath Katju |
| Governor of Punjab (India) | |
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In office 15 August 1947 – 11 March 1953 |
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| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Sir Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh |
| Governor of Andhra Pradesh | |
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In office 1 October 1953 – 1 August 1957 |
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| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Bhim Sen Sachar |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
2 July 1893 Kapadvanj, Kaira District, Bombay Presidency, British India (now Kheda district, Gujarat, India) |
| Died | 15 March 1980 (aged 86) Kapadvanj, Kaira District (now Kheda district), Gujarat, India |
| Spouse(s) | Kusumben Chunilal Trivedi |
Sir Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi KCSI, CIE, OBE, ICS (2 July 1893 - 15 March 1980) was an Indian administrator and civil servant who served as the first Indian governor of the state of Punjab (then East Punjab) after Independence in 1947. He subsequently served as the first Governor of Andhra Pradesh from its creation in 1953 until 1957.
Trivedi was born and raised in Kapadvanj in Kaira (now Kheda) District, then in the Bombay Presidency of British India and now in Gujarat. After completing his studies at Bombay University and at St John's College, Oxford, he successfully sat the Indian Civil Service exams in 1916 and was appointed to the service the following October, returning to India in December 1917.
He first served in the Central Provinces as an assistant commissioner (officiating deputy commissioner from January 1924), and as the provincial director of industries and registrar of cooperative societies from November 1926; until then, he had served in the position in an officiating role from June 1925. In March 1927, Trivedi was confirmed as a deputy commissioner, and was posted to the Home Department of the Government of India as a deputy secretary in May 1932. He was advanced to the rank of officiating joint secretary in April 1934 and in an officiating role, was appointed the chief secretary of the Central Provinces in October 1937. During the Second World War, Trivedi was promoted to additional secretary (war) with the central government in March 1942, and was promoted to full secretary that July.
Following the end of the war, and with the end of the British Raj imminent, Trivedi was appointed as the first Indian and last British-appointed Governor of Odisha in late 1945. He formally succeeded to the governorship in April 1946, serving until 14 August 1947, the day before India's independence from Britain. On the same day, he was appointed the first Indian governor of the new Indian province of East Punjab (part of which is now Haryana).
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