John B Chitamber

John Benedict Chitambar (1920-2005) was an Indian educator at the Allahabad Agricultural Institute.

Chitambar was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. He received his doctorate in Rural Sociology from Cornell University.

After Independence of India, he moved to the Allahabad Agricultural Institute where he served for 31 years initially in the Department of Extension and then as Principal until retirement.

He relocated to the United States in 1981, where he worked with World Vision International for 10 years as a Director of Rural Development and Agriculture. He published numerous papers and three textbooks in his field of rural sociology.