Born in 1922 to Mohan Singh Mehta, a member of the Constituent Assembly of India in 1947, Mehta was educated at Allahabad and Cambridge Universities.
Mehta was Chargé d'affaires China (1963-1966) and High Commissioner to Tanzania (1970-1974).
He was Associate at Harvard (1969 and 1980) and Fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington in 1981.
Mehta's cremation will take place today.
