Life
Mohinder Pratap Chand was born on August 1, 1935, in Karor Lal Esan, Layyah District (at the time a tehsil of Muzaffargarh District) in the Punjab state of pre-independence India (now Pakistan). At the time of the partition of the country, when he was twelve, he and his parents migrated to India. He studied at Government College Ludhiana and then at the University of Delhi, where he completed his Honors and Masters degrees in Urdu and also a Masters in Library Science (all in the first class).
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