Surendra Singh Pangtey
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Born1 January 1940
Munsyari, Uttarakhand, India
OccupationWriter, army officer, and civil servant
GenreNon-fiction, mythology
Surendra Singh Pangtey | |
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.jpg) Pangtey in 2019 | |
| Born | 1 January 1940 Munsyari, Uttarakhand, India |
| Occupation | Writer, army officer, and civil servant |
| Genre | Non-fiction, mythology |
Surendra Singh Pangtey (born 1 January 1940) is an Indian author and a former Indian Army and Indian Administrative Service officer. His notable works include Prehistory of Shauka regime, Saga of a native explorer, Śaukā pradeśa kā prāgaitihāsa (in Hindi, 2019), Vāmācāra tantra tathā Pauna tāntrika prathā (in Hindi) and Vamachar Tantra & Ponism. He has studied and published about Rankas (Shaukiya-khun), the now-extinct, traditional language of his native, Shauka community, as well as the currently spoken Johari dialect. In 2000 he established the Tribal Heritage Museum in Munsyari, Uttarakhand to promote the history, culture and tradition of the Bhotiya people.
