100 Notable alumni of
University of Allahabad
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The University of Allahabad is 401st in the world, 76th in Asia, and 5th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Allahabad sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mahadevi Varma
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- prose writerpoetwriter
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Mahadevi Varma was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, and short-story writer. She is widely regarded by literary scholars as one of the four major figures of the Chhayavad movement in Hindi literature.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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- philosopherwriterspiritual teacher
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and leader of the worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways, including as a new religious movement and as non-religious. He became known as Maharishi (meaning "great seer") and Yogi as an adult.
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Motilal Nehru
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- politicianbarrister
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Motilal Nehru was an Indian lawyer, activist, and politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress. He served as the Congress President twice, from 1919 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1929. He was a patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family and the father of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister.
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Chandra Shekhar
- Enrolled in the University of Allahabad
- In 1951 graduated with master's degree in political science
- Occupations
- politician
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Chandra Shekhar, also known as Jananayak, was an Indian politician and the prime minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress. He was the second Indian Prime Minister who had never held any prior government office.
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V. P. Singh
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- politician
- Biography
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Vishwanath Pratap Singh was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the Raja Bahadur of Manda.
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Aditya Shrivastava
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- actortelevision actormodel
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Aditya Srivastava is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films, television and theatre. He is best known for his role as Senior Inspector Abhijeet in India's longest-running television police procedural C.I.D. He has also portrayed pivotal roles in the Bollywood films Satya, Gulaal, Lakshya, Paanch, Black Friday, Kaalo, Super 30 and Dil Se Pooch Kidhar Jana Hai.
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Gulzarilal Nanda
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- university teachereconomistpolitician
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Gulzarilal Nanda was an Indian politician and economist who specialised in labour issues. He served as the acting Prime Minister of India for two 13-day tenures following the deaths of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966 respectively. Both his terms ended after the ruling Indian National Congress's parliamentary party elected a new prime minister. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1997.
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Madan Mohan Malaviya
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- revolutionaryfreedom fighterjournalistpoetlawyer
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Madan Mohan Malaviya was an Indian scholar, educational reformer, and activist notable for his role in the Indian independence movement. He was president of the Indian National Congress four times and the founder of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha. He was addressed as Pandit, a title of respect. Malaviya is known as the founder of one of the most prestigious university of India named Banaras Hindu University.
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Shankar Dayal Sharma
- Enrolled in the University of Allahabad
- Graduated with Master of Arts in Sanskrit, English-language literature, and Hindi
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- lawyerpolitician
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Shankar Dayal Sharma was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the president of India from 1992 to 1997 and vice president of India from 1987 to 1992.
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Tigmanshu Dhulia
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- authorcasting directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm director
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Tigmanshu Dhulia is an Indian film dialogue writer, director, actor, screenwriter, producer and casting director known for his works in Hindi cinema and Television. He wrote the dialogue for the 1998 film Dil Se.., the first Bollywood film to chart in the UK top ten, and screened at the Berlin International Film Festival. His directing career has also garnered international recognition with the biographical film Paan Singh Tomar, premiered at the 2010 BFI London Film Festival and the thriller drama Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster.
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Murli Manohar Joshi
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- politician
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Murli Manohar Joshi is an Indian politician. He is one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and served as its President from 1991 to 1993. In addition to his role in the BJP, he has been a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist organisation. Joshi is the former Member of Parliament from Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency. He is a former professor of physics in University of Allahabad. He is one of the senior most leaders of the BJP and one of the founding members. Joshi later became the Union Human Resources & Development Minister in the National Democratic Alliance government. Joshi was awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award, in 2017 by the Government of India.
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Vinay Pathak
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- television actorfilm producertelevision presenteractor
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Vinay Pathak is an Indian theater and film actor. He has starred in many films including Khosla Ka Ghosla, Bheja Fry, Island City and Johnny Gaddaar and had a supporting role in movies like Jism, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and My Name Is Khan.
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Zakir Husain
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- politician
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Zakir Husain Khan was an Indian educationist and politician who served as the vice president of India from 1962 to 1967 and president of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969.
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Govind Ballabh Pant
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- civil servantlawyerfreedom fighterpolitician
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Govind Ballabh Pant was an Indian independence activist and politician who was the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, Pant was a key figure in the Indian independence movement and later a pivotal figure in the Indian government. He was one of the foremost political leaders of Uttar Pradesh (then known as United Provinces) and a key player in the successful movement to establish Hindi as the official language of Indian Union..
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Prashant Bhushan
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- activistauthorlawyerpolitician
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Prashant Bhushan is an Indian author and a public interest lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He was a member of the faction of the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement known as Team Anna which supported Anna Hazare's campaign for the implementation of the Jan Lokpal Bill. After a split in IAC, he helped Team Anna form the Aam Aadmi Party. In 2015, he made several allegations against the party's leadership, its functioning and its deviation from the core ideology, values and commitments. He is one of the founders of Swaraj Abhiyan and Sambhaavnaa, an Institute of Public Policy and Politics.
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N. D. Tiwari
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- politician
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Narayan Datt Tiwari was an Indian politician who served as the 9th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and 3rd Chief Minister of Uttaranchal (later Uttarakhand) from 2002 to 2007. He was the first Indian Chief Minister who served for two states. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a former member of the Praja Socialist Party and the Indian National Congress. He joined the Bhartiya Janata Party in 2017.
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Markandey Katju
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- judge
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Markandey Katju is an Indian jurist and a former judge of Supreme Court of India. He also was chairman of the Press Council of India from 2011 to 2014. He is the son of politician Shiva Nath Katju and grandson of Kailash Nath Katju. He is the founder and patron of the Indian Reunification Association, an organisation that advocates for the peaceful reunification of what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh with India under a secular government.
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Rajendra Singh
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- conservationistclimate activisteducatorsocial workerenvironmentalist
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Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as the "Waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015. He runs an NGO called 'Tarun Bharat Sangh' (TBS), which was founded in 1975. The NGO based in village hori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi tehsil, near Sariska Tiger Reserve, has been instrumental in fighting the slow bureaucracy, mining lobby and has helped villagers take charge of water management in their semi-arid area as it lies close to Thar Desert, through the use of johad, rainwater storage tanks, check dams and other time-tested as well as path-breaking techniques.
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Nripendra Misra
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- civil servant
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Nripendra Misra is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer (IAS) of the 1967 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, who served as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as the chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Telecom Secretary of India and the Fertilizers Secretary of India. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2021.
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Pankaj Mishra
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- literary criticwriterjournalist
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Pankaj Mishra FRSL is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist. His non-fiction works include The World After Gaza, Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond, along with From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours, and he has published two novels. He is a prolific contributor to periodicals such as The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books and was previously a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. His writings have led to a number of controversies, including disputes with Salil Tripathi, Niall Ferguson, and Jordan Peterson. He was awarded the Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction in 2014 and the Weston International Award in 2024.
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Vikas Swarup
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- diplomatwriter
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Vikas Swarup is an Indian writer and retired diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service who served as the Secretary (West) at the Ministry of External Affairs, India on 30 June 2021 and previously served as High Commissioner of India in Canada and has been the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs. He authored the novel Q & A, adapted in film as Slumdog Millionaire, the winner of Best Film for the year 2009 at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Awards.
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Harish-Chandra
- Enrolled in the University of Allahabad
- Studied in 1939-1943
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianphysicist
- Biography
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Harish-Chandra FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
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Rajendra Singh
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- politician
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Rajendra Singh, was the fourth Sarsanghchalak (Chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary organisation. He was chief of that organisation between 1994 and 2000. A physicist by profession, he was a professor and head of the Department of Physics at the University of Allahabad but left the post and joined the RSS full-time in 1966.
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Keshari Nath Tripathi
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- politician
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Keshari Nath Tripathi was an Indian politician, who served as Governor of West Bengal from July 2014 to July 2019 and also as Governor of Bihar, Meghalaya, and Mizoram at various times. He was a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the Speaker of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly three times, and the president of BJP Uttar Pradesh.
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Mohammad Imran garh
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- poetlyricistwriter
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Imran Pratapgarhi is an Indian Urdu-language poet and politician, who is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament. He represents the Indian state of Maharashtra. Pratapgarhi is known for his protest poetry that particularises the Muslim experience and identity in India and other parts of the world; he is especially known for his Urdu nazms "Madrasa" and "Han Main Kashmir Hoon."
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Anil Baijal
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- civil servant
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Anil Baijal is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. He took over office on 31 December 2016 after the sudden resignation of Najeeb Jung. He resigned from the post of Lieutenant Governor and sent his resignation letter to President of India on 18 May 2022 as his term was over.
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Firaq Gorakhpuri
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- poetwriter
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Raghupati Sahay, also known by his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was an Indian writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India. He established himself among peers including Muhammad Iqbal, Yagana Changezi, Jigar Moradabadi and Josh Malihabadi.
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Bhagwati Charan Verma
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- writerpolitician
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Bhagwati Charan Verma was a Hindi author. He wrote many novels, his best work was Chitralekha (1934), which was made into two successful Hindi films in 1941 and 1964 respectively. He was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for his epic five-part novel, Bhoole Bisre Chitra in 1961 and Padma Bhushan in 1971. He was also nominated to Rajya Sabha in 1978.Bhagwati Charan Verma was born in November 1903 in Lahore. His father Shiv Charan Verma was a high-ranking railway official. Bhagwati Charan Verma was taught by Adarsh Sachdeva.
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Udit Raj
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- civil servantpolitician
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Udit Raj is an Indian politician and retired Indian Revenue Service officer who is a member of the Indian National Congress. He was a member of parliament between 2014 and 2019 in the Lok Sabha, representing North West Delhi as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party but left the party after its first term. Before joining the politics, he was a civil servant and a former Deputy Commissioner, Joint Commissioner and Additional Commissioner of Income Tax at New Delhi.
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Madan Lal Khurana
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- politician
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Madan Lal Khurana was an Indian politician who served as the 3rd Chief Minister of Delhi from 1993 to 1996. He was also the Governor of Rajasthan in 2004. Born in British India, Khurana was known as Dilli ka Sher in Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Tourism in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government from 1998 to 1999.
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Saifuddin Kitchlew
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- politicianbarrister
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Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew was an Indian independence activist, barrister, politician and later a leader of the peace movement. A member of Indian National Congress, he first became Punjab Provincial Congress Committee (Punjab PCC) head and later the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in 1924. He is most remembered for the protests in Punjab after the implementation of Rowlatt Act in March 1919, after which on 10 April, he and another leader Satyapal, were secretly sent to Dharamsala. A public protest rally against their arrest and that of Gandhi, on 13 April 1919 at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, led to the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre. He was also a founding member of Jamia Millia Islamia. He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (now known as Lenin Peace Prize) in 1952.
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Kailash Nath Katju
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- politician
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Kailash Nath Katju was an Indian politician who served as Governor of Odisha and West Bengal, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Union Home Minister and Union Defence Minister. He was also one of India's most prominent lawyers. He was part of some of the most notable cases of his times, including the Indian National Army trials. Katju joined the Indian independence movement early on and spent several years incarcerated with fellow independence activists for his activities.
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Camille Bulcke
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- university teachermissionarySanskrit scholar
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Camille Bulcke was a Belgian Jesuit missionary in India who came to be known as "India's most renowned Christian Hindi scholar".
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Vijay Bahuguna
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
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Vijay Bahuguna is an Indian politician who served as the 6th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He is the eldest son of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, an independence activist and politician, and also a former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Vijay Bahuguna was a member of the 14th and 15th Lok Sabhas of India. He represented the Tehri Garhwal constituency of Uttarakhand and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Krishnaswamy Sundarji
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- soldiermilitary leaderwriter
- Biography
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General Krishnaswamy "Sundarji" Sundararajan, PVSM was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1986 to 1988. He was the last former British Indian Army officer to command the Indian Army.
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Ramkumar Verma
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- poetwriter
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Ramkumar Verma was a Hindi poet who published one act-plays and several anthologies of his work.
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S. C. Jamir
- Enrolled in the University of Allahabad
- In 1958 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir is an Indian politician and former Governor of Odisha. He was Parliamentary Secretary to Jawaharlal Nehru and Deputy Minister under Indira Gandhi. He has served as the Chief Minister of Nagaland, Governor of Maharashtra, Governor of Gujarat & Governor of Goa. He was awarded the third-highest civilian award in India, the Padma Bhusan, in 2020 for his work in public affairs.
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B. D. Mishra
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- 1939-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Brigadier Bal Dutt Mishra (born 20 July 1939) is a retired officer of the Indian Army, and former Lieutenant governor of Ladakh, Previously he held the offices of Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Governor of Meghalaya and Governor of Mizoram.
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Sampurnanand
- Enrolled in the University of Allahabad
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Sampurnanand was an Indian teacher and politician who served as the second Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1954 until 1960, and later as Governor of Rajasthan. Serving for five years and 344 days, he had the longest single tenure of any Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister until surpassed by Yogi Adityanath in 2023.
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Narendra Deva
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- 1889-1956 (aged 67)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Acharya Narendra Deva was one of the leading theorists of the Congress Socialist Party in India. His democratic socialism renounced violent means as a matter of principle and embraced the satyagraha as a revolutionary tactic.
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B. B. Lal
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- archaeologistwriteranthropologist
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Braj Basi Lal was an Indian writer and archaeologist. He was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1968 to 1972 and has served as Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. Lal also served on various UNESCO committees.
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Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna
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- politician
- Biography
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Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna was an Indian National Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; he later joined Bharatiya Lok Dal and worked with Charan Singh.
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Kamleshwar
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- writernovelistjournalistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena, known mononymously as Kamleshwar, was a 20th-century Indian writer who wrote in Hindi. He also worked as a screenwriter for Indian films and television industry. Among his most well-known works are the films Aandhi, Mausam, Chhoti Si Baat and Rang Birangi. He was awarded the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award for his Hindi novel Kitne Pakistan (translated in English as Partitions), and the Padma Bhushan in 2005.
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Shrilal Shukla
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- civil servantnovelist
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Shrilal Shukla was a Hindi writer, notable for his satire. He worked as a PCS officer for the state government of Uttar Pradesh, later inducted into the IAS. He has written over 25 books, including Raag Darbari, Makaan, Sooni Ghaati Ka Sooraj, Pehla Padaav and Bisrampur Ka Sant.
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Daulat Singh Kothari
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- physicist
- Biography
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Daulat Singh Kothari was an Indian scientist and educationist.
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Shashi Kant Sharma
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- civil servant
- Biography
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Shashi Kant Sharma is a retired 1976 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre. He was the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. In July 2014 he assumed office as a Member of the United Nations Board of Auditors. On 11 January 2017, Sharma took over as the Chairman of the United Nations Board of Auditors. The reports of the Board serve as a key input for policy making within the UN.
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Jagdish Sharan Verma
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- judge
- Biography
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Jagdish Sharan Verma was an Indian jurist who served as the 27th Chief Justice of India from 25 March 1997 to 18 January 1998. He was the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission from 1999 to 2003, and chairman of the Justice Verma Committee Report on Amendments to Criminal Law after the 2012 Delhi gang rape case. He remains one of India's most highly regarded Chief Justices and eminent jurists in its history.
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Vidya Niwas Mishra
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- authorpoliticianjournalist
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Vidya Niwas Mishra was an Indian scholar, a Hindi-Sanskrit littérateur, and a journalist. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan.
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B. C. Khanduri
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- politician
- Biography
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Major General Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri, AVSM, (born 1 October 1934) is an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2007 to 2009 and 2011 to 2012. He was a Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha representing the Garhwal parliamentary constituency of Uttarakhand and is a senior member of the Bharatiya Janta Party. Earlier, he was a cabinet minister, Ministry of Surface Transport of the government headed by the former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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Akhilesh Pratap Singh
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- politician
- Biography
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Akhilesh Pratap Singh is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He represented the Rudrapur constituency of Uttar Pradesh until 2017 and is a member and spokesperson for the Indian National Congress party.
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Gopal Swarup Pathak
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Gopal Swarup Pathak was the vice president of India from August 1969 to August 1974. He was the first Indian vice president not to succeed his superior as President.
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Satish Mishra
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Satish Chandra Mishra is an Indian politician who was the cabinet minister in Mayawati ministry in Uttar Pradesh, India, and a part of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). He is a lawyer by profession. He was a member of Rajya Sabha until 2 April 2022.
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Mrinal Pande
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- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Mrinal Pande is an Indian television personality, journalist and author, and until 2009 chief editor of Hindi daily Hindustan.
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Naresh Chandra
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- diplomatcivil servantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Naresh Chandra was a 1956 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of the Rajasthan cadre who served as the Cabinet Secretary of India, Defence Secretary of India, Home Secretary of India, Water Resources Secretary of India and Indian Ambassador to the United States. He was awarded India's second highest civilian honour the Padma Vibhushan for civil service in 2007.
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Puran Chand Joshi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Puran Chand Joshi was one of the early leaders of the communist movement in India. He was the general secretary of the Communist Party of India from 1935 to 1947.
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Surya Bahadur Thapa
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Surya Bahadur Thapa was a Nepali politician and a five-time Prime Minister of Nepal. He served under three different kings in a political career lasting more than 50 years.
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Ashok Bhushan
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Ashok Bhushan is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and the chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal. He was the 31st chief justice of the Kerala High Court. He is a former judge of the Kerala High Court and Allahabad High Court.
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Pawan Shankar
- Occupations
- television presenteractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Pawan Shankar is an Indian film and television actor who played the title role in the serial Siddhant on Star One. He holds an MBA in finance from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. An alumnus of Prayagraj's St. Joseph's College, Shankar graduated with a Gold Medal from University of Allahabad.
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Saiyid Nurul Hasan
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- historianauthordiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Saiyid Nurul Hasan FRHistS, FRAS was an Indian historian and an elder statesman in the Government of India. A member of the Rajya Sabha, he was the Union Minister of State (with Independent Charges) of Education, Social Welfare and Culture Government of India (1971–1977) and the Governor of West Bengal and Odisha (1986–1993).
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Sudhanshu Dhulia
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Sudhanshu Dhulia is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the Gauhati High Court and judge of the Uttarakhand High Court.
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Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
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- civil servantpoetliterary criticwriter
- Biography
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Shamsur Rahman Faruqi was an Indian Urdu language poet, author, critic, and theorist. He is known for ushering modernism to Urdu literature. He formulated fresh models of literary appreciation that combined Western principles of literary criticism and subsequently applied them to Urdu literature after adapting them to address literary aesthetics native to Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Some of his notable works included Sher-e-Shor Angez (1996), Ka’i Chand The Sar-e Asman (2006), The Mirror of Beauty (2013), and The Sun that Rose from the Earth (2014). He was also the editor and publisher of the Urdu literary magazine Shabkhoon.
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Sitakant Mahapatra
- Occupations
- translatorpoetliterary criticwriter
- Biography
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Sitakant Mahapatra is an Indian poet and literary critic in Odia as well as English. He served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from 1961 until he retired in 1995, and has since held ex officio posts such as Banking Ombudsman of Odisha and Chairman of National Book Trust, New Delhi etc.
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Kailas Nath Wanchoo
- Years
- 1903-..
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Kailas Nath Wanchoo was the tenth Chief Justice of India.
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Satish Chandra
- Occupations
- historianauthor
- Biography
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Satish Chandra was an Indian historian whose main area of specialisation was medieval Indian history.
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Jaya Varma Sinha
- Biography
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Jaya Varma Sinha is the former Chairperson of Railway Board (India) of the Indian Railways.
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Gopinath Kaviraj
- Occupations
- philosopherlibrarian
- Biography
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Gopinath Kaviraj was an Indian Sanskrit scholar, Indologist and philosopher. First appointed in 1914 a librarian, he was the Principal of Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi from 1923 to 1937. He was also the editor of the Sarasvati Bhavana Granthamala (Sarasvati Bhavana Texts) during that period.
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V. N. Khare
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Vishweshwar Nath Khare is a retired Indian judge who served as the 33rd Chief Justice of India, from 19 December 2002 to 1 May 2004. He also served as the Chancellor of the Central University of Jharkhand from 2017 to 2023. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 21 March 1997 before he was elevated to the post of Chief Justice.
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Vishal Mangalwadi
- Occupations
- university teacherauthorphilosopher
- Biography
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Vishal Mangalwadi is an Indian Christian intellectual, a social reformer, political columnist, public speaker, and author of over 30 books. He is known for his work on the role of the Bible in shaping world history and culture.
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Abdul Majid Daryabadi
- Occupations
- ulemawriteruniversity teacherphilosopherjournalist
- Biography
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Abdul Majid Daryabadi was an influential Islamic scholar, philosopher, writer, critic, researcher, journalist, and Quranic exegete active in the Indian subcontinent during the 20th century. He was deeply concerned with modernism, comparative religion, and orientalism in India.
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Shyam Kumari Khan
- Years
- 1904-1980 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- freedom fighterpolitician
- Biography
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Shyam Kumari Khan née Nehru was an Indian lawyer, freedom fighter, politician and social worker. She was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1963 to 1968.
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Manuel Aaron
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Manuel Aaron is the first Indian chess master in the second half of the 20th century. He dominated chess in India in the 1960s to the 1980s, was the national champion of India nine times between 1959 and 1981. He is India's first chess player to be awarded the FIDE Title of International Master, and is one of the key figures in introducing international chess practices to India; until the 1960s, Indian chess (known as chaturanga) was often played using many local traditional variants (e.g. in lieu of castling, the king could execute a knights move once, if it had not been checked). Aaron helped popularize the international variety, forming many chess groups and urging players to study openings and other formal chess literature.
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Arjun Singh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Arjun Singh was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress, who served twice as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in the 1980s. He also served twice as the Union Minister of Human Resource Development, in the Manmohan Singh and P. V. Narasimha Rao ministries.
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Nikhil Kumar
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- civil servantpolitician
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Nikhil Kumar is a retired IPS officer and statesman from Bihar, India, who was Governor of Nagaland from 2009 to 2013 and Governor of Kerala from 2013 to 2014. One of country's well knownIPS officers of the 1963 batch from the AGMUT Cadre, Kumar also served as DGP of the National Security Guards, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Railway Protection Force and Commissioner of Delhi Police. He was elected member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India from 2004 to 2009, representing the Aurangabad constituency in Bihar as a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He also served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Information Technology.
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Ganesh Prasad
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- university teachermathematicianhistorian of mathematics
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Ganesh Prasad was an Indian mathematician who specialised in the theory of potentials, theory of functions of a real variable, Fourier series and the theory of surfaces. He was trained at the Universities of Cambridge and Göttingen and on return to India he helped develop the culture of mathematical research in India. The mathematical community of India considers Ganesh Prasad as the ′Father of Mathematical Research in India′. He was also an educator taking special interest in the advancement of primary education in the rural areas of India.
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Ram Niwas Mirdha
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- ministerjuristpolitician
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Ram Niwas Mirdha was an Indian statesman, parliamentarian, and cultural administrator in post-independence India. A veteran member of the Indian National Congress, Mirdha holds the record for being longest serving speaker of the Rajasthan Assembly, from 1957 to 1967. Mirdha later elected to the Rajya Sabha and served several positions including Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, from 1977 to 1980. At the Union level, he served as Minister of State for Home Affairs and Defence, while Cabinet Minister for Communications, Textiles, Health, and Water Resources, during the 1970s and 1980s. Mirdha was popularly nicknamed “Padha Likha Jat”, the educated Jat, because of his distinguished academic background than the contemporary Rajasthani politicians, having studied at Allahabad University and later at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
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Ruqaiya Hasan
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- linguist
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Ruqaiya Hasan was an Indian linguist and professor who held visiting positions and taught at various universities in England and Australia. Her last appointment was at Macquarie University in Sydney, from which she retired as emeritus professor in 1994. Throughout her career she researched and published widely in the areas of verbal art, culture, context and text, text and texture, lexicogrammar and semantic variation. The latter involved the devising of extensive semantic system networks for the analysis of meaning in naturally occurring dialogues.
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Dharma Vira
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- civil servant
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Dharma Vira was an Indian civil servant and politician who served as the governor of Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal and Karnataka. Vira also served as a Cabinet Secretary of the Government of India.
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B. K. Chaturvedi
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- physicist
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B. K. Chaturvedi is an Indian civil servant. He is former cabinet secretary, Government of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2010 for his contribution to the field of civil services. He belongs to 1966 batch of the Indian Administrative Service.
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Girish Chandra Saxena
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- politician
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Girish Chandra Saxena was a governor of Jammu and Kashmir state in India. Born in Agra in 1928, he joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) and held many positions in police and retired as Director of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency. He took over as the head of the State on 2 May 1998 for the second time. Earlier, he held the office of the Governor J&K from 26 May 1990 to 13 March 1993.
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Kamal Narain Singh
- Years
- 1926-2022 (aged 96)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Kamal Narain Singh was an Indian jurist who served as the 22nd Chief Justice of India. He was educated at L.R.L.A. High School in Sirsa and Ewing Christian College in Allahabad and was a graduate of the University of Allahabad. At 17 days, his tenure as chief justice is the shortest.
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Subhash C Kashyap
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- politician
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Subhash C. Kashyap is a former secretary-general of 7th Lok Sabha, 8th Lok Sabha and 9th Lok Sabha and Lok Sabha Secretariat (Lower House of Parliament of India) from 1984 to 1990. He is also a well known political scientist, an expert in the Indian Constitution, Constitutional Law, Parliamentary Experts and a distinguished scholar, He has been associated with the parliament of India since the year 1953. He also headed an International Centre for Parliamentary Documentation, IPU at Geneva till 1983, He was the first Indian to head an International Organisation. Kashyap was honorary constitutional advisor to the Government of India on Panchayati Raj Laws and Institutions. He is also recipient of several prestigious awards for the Best Books in Constitution, Law and Political Science. At present Dr. Kashyap is an honorary research professor at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi. He was also a member of the National Commission to Review the Working of Constitution and chairman of its drafting and editorial committee. He was also one of the key members of the High level committee in the making of One Nation, One Election. Dr. Kashyap also served as the president of Indian national bar association.
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Pankaj Mithal
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- judge
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Pankaj Mithal is a judge of the Supreme Court of India and a former Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court. Previously, he has also served as the Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court and Judge of the Allahabad High Court.
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Gopal Ballav Pattanaik
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Gopal Ballav Pattanaik is an Indian lawyer and later a jurist who served for 19 years on the bench of the Odisha High Court as a permanent judge, as chief justice of Patna High Court, judge of the Supreme Court of India and as the 32nd Chief Justice of India.
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Rustom K. S. Ghandhi
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Vice Admiral Rustom Khushro Shapoorjee 'Rusi' Ghandhi, PVSM, VrC was a former flag officer in the Indian Navy. He last served as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command from 1977 to 1979. He is the only officer to have commanded ships in all wars and conflicts post Independence. He commanded the frigate INS Betwa (1959) during the Annexation of Goa, the destroyer INS Khukri (F149) during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and the cruiser INS Mysore (C60) during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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Mata Prasad
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India - Occupations
- civil servant
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Mata Prasad was a Indian Administrative Service officer. He was one of the first people from the Scheduled Castes to become an IAS officer. He is a former chairman of the Union Public Service Commission of India. He served as the chief secretary of the state of Uttar Pradesh from June 1995 to October 1996, thus becoming the first Scheduled Caste officer to head the state bureaucracy. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2012, for his contributions to civil service.
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Prem Chand Pandey
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- oceanographermeteorologistphysicist
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Prem Chand Pandey is an Indian space, and planetary scientist, academic in the fields of satellite oceanography, remote sensing, atmospheric science, the Antarctic and climate change, and the founding director of the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research.
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Krishna Murari
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- judge
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Krishna Murari is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India and former chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He also served as a judge of the Allahabad High Court till his elevation as chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
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Sarat Pujari
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- lectureractorfilm director
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Sarat Pujari was an Indian actor, director and producer in Odia film industry (Ollywood). He was originally from Jhaduapada, Sambalpur.
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Sandeep Nath
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- India
- Occupations
- authorlyricistsongwriter
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Sandeep Nath is a Bollywood lyricist, screenwriter, composer, director, singer, and producer.
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Vineet Saran
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- judge
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Vineet Saran is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and the ethics officer and ombudsman in the Board of Control for Cricket in India. He is a former chief justice of the Orissa High Court. He is also a former judge of the Karnataka High Court and Allahabad High Court.
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Jagannath Prasad Das
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- poetwriter
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Jagannath Prasad Das is an Indian writer, poet, painter, playwright and novelist who writes in Odia.
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Amarnath Jha
- Years
- 1888-1947 (aged 59)
- Occupations
- Sanskrit scholar
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Amaranath Jha was the Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Allahabad and the Banaras Hindu University. He was the son of Mahamahopadhyay Dr. Sir Ganganath Jha, a great scholar of Sanskrit Amaranath Jha was reputed as the ablest professor of English literature in India of his time. He was Head of the Department of English at the University of Allahabad for a long time, being appointed to the post at the young age of thirty-two. In 1938 he became Vice-Chancellor of the Allahabad University ie six years after his father relinquished the office of Vice Chancellor of University of Allahabad and then became Vice Chancellor of the Banaras Hindu University in succession to Dr. Radhakrishnan. He worked as Vice Chairman of the committee for the project leading to the establishment of the National Defence Academy. He was one amongst eminent dignitaries associated with the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sanstahan, Allahabad. He became Chairman of Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission and thereafter he became Chairman of the Bihar Public Service Commission (1 April 1953 – 1 September 1955).
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Govind Mishra
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- writer
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Govind Mishra is an Indian novelist, who has written more than 53 books. He was also a civil servant with Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and retired as Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes in 1997. Over the years, he has written 11 novels, 14 short story collections, five travelogues, five literary essays collection, a poem collection and 2 story books for children.
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Allamah Rasheed Turabi
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- poetphilosopher
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Raza Hussain also known as Allama Rasheed Turabi was an Islamic scholar, religious leader, public speaker, poet and philosopher.
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Vibhuti Narain Rai
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- writer
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Vibhuti Narain Rai is an ex police officer and author from India. He obtained an M.A. in English literature from Allahabad University in 1971, and joined the Indian Police Service in 1975 as a part of the Uttar Pradesh cadre. He served many sensitive districts as a superintendent of police.
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Vinod Kumar Sonkar
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- politician
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Vinod Kumar Sonkar is an Indian politician, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Member of Parliament from Kaushambi, Uttar Pradesh, from 2014 to 2024. During his tenure as Member of Parliament, he served as the chairperson of the Lok Sabha parliamentary committee on Ethics. He has also served as a National secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Nagendra Singh
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- politician
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Nagendra Singh is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Khajuraho (Lok Sabha constituency). He was previously a minister in the Government of Madhya Pradesh before becoming Member of Parliament.
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Neeraj Roy
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- businessperson
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Neeraj Roy is an Indian businessman. He is the managing director and CEO of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, which owns Hungama.com and Bollywood Hungama, and managing director of ArtistAloud.com. Under his leadership, Hungama today is South Asia's largest digital and mobile entertainment company. He is also the chairman of the Asia board of the Mobile Entertainment Forum.
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Sara Rai
- Enrolled in the University of Allahabad
- In 1981 graduated with master's degree in English-language literature
- Occupations
- author
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Sara Rai, is a contemporary Indian writer, translator and editor of modern Hindi and Urdu fiction. She lives in Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh, India. Rai mainly writes and publishes short stories in Hindi. Written in a reflective prose style, her stories explore the individual complexities in the lives of ordinary people and outsiders in contemporary India.
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Naiyer Masud
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- translatoracademiccriticwriter
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Naiyer Masud was an Indian Urdu scholar and short story writer.
