27 Notable alumni of
University of Rajasthan
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The University of Rajasthan is 1270th in the world, 276th in Asia, and 31st in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 27 notable alumni from the University of Rajasthan sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jagdeep Dhankhar
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- lawyer
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Jagdeep Dhankhar is an Indian politician and lawyer, serving as the current Vice President of India since 2022. He previously served as the Governor of West Bengal from 2019 to 2022. He also served as a Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Chandra Shekhar ministry from 1990 to 1991. He was a member of Lok Sabha from 1989 to 1991 and later a Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 1993 to 1998. He has also been affiliated with multiple political parties in India, including the Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian National Congress and Janata Dal.
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Santosh Yadav
- Occupations
- police officermountaineer
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Santosh Yadav is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice and the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from Kangshung Face. She climbed the peak first in May 1992 and again in May 1993 with an Indo-Nepalese Team.
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Yogendra Yadav
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- psephologistpolitician
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Yogendra Yadav is an Indian activist, psephologist and politician whose primary interests are in the political and social sciences. He was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi from 2004 to 2016. He is a former member of University Grants Commission (UGC) and National Advisory Council on Right to Education Act (NAC-RTE) constituted by Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Govt of India, in 2010. He was a member of the National Executive of the Aam Aadmi Party until 2015.
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Ruhi Singh
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- actormodel
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Ruhi Dilip Singh is an Indian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She primarily appears in Hindi films and television. She participated in Femina Miss India East 2011, the preliminary for Femina Miss India contest and was crowned 1st Runner up. She later won the title of Miss Universal Peace and Humanity 2014.
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Arvind Panagariya
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- economistinternational forum participant
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Arvind Panagariya is an Indian-American economist who is the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University and is also the Director of Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies at School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City. He served as first vice-chairman of the government of India think-tank NITI Aayog between January 2015 and August 2017. He has been appointed as the chairman of 16th Finance Commission by the government of India. He is a former Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2012 for his contributions in the field of economics and Public Policy. He is an authority on free trade and widely regarded as the foremost expert in the world on Indian economy.
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Hanuman Beniwal
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- politician
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Hanuman Beniwal is an Indian politician and farmer leader, serving as the member of the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Khinvsar. He is also a former member of parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from Nagaur since 2019. He is the founder, president and national convenor of the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party.
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Jagdish Mukhi
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- politicianacademic
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Prof. Jagdish Mukhi is an Indian politician who served as the 28th Governor of Assam from 2017 to 2023 and the Governor of Nagaland (Additional Charge) from 2021 to 2023 and the Governor of Mizoram on 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Mukhi served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands from 2016 to 2017, Minister of Finance, Planning, Excise and Taxation and Higher Education, Government of Delhi in the Swaraj ministry from 1998 to 1998 representing Janakpuri Assembly constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly from 1993 to 2015.
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Kamla Bhasin
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- women's rights activistwriterpoet
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Kamla Bhasin was an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist. Bhasin's work, that began in 1970, focused on gender education, human development and the media. She lived in New Delhi, India. She was best known for her work with Sangat - A Feminist Network and for her poem Kyunki main ladki hoon, mujhe padhna hai. In 1995, she recited a refurbished, feminist version of the popular poem Azadi (Freedom) in a conference. She was also the South Asia coordinator of One Billion Rising.
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Subhash Chandra Garg
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- civil servant
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Subhash Chandra Garg is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre. He served as Economic Affairs Secretary and Finance Secretary of India. He has also served as an executive director in the World Bank.
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Ashok Kumar
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- field hockey player
- Biography
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Ashok Kumar is an Indian former professional field hockey player. He is the son of the Indian hockey player Dhyan Chand. Kumar was known for his exceptional skills and ball control. He was a member of the Indian team that won the 1975 World Cup.
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Yuyutsu Sharma
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- poet
- Biography
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Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma is a Nepalese-Indian poet and journalist. He was born at Nakodar, Punjab and moved to Nepal at an early age. He writes in English and Nepali.
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Kailash Chandra Meghwal
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- politicianlawyer
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Kailash Chandra Meghwal is a former Speaker of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, former union minister of state in Government of India and a national vice president of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the MLA of Shahpura, Bhilwara constituency of Rajasthan in 14th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly & Ex-MP Tonk constituency of Rajasthan in 14th Lok Sabha. He was minister of state for social justice and empowerment from 2003 to 2004.
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Pratip Chaudhuri
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- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- banker
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Pratip Chaudhuri, is an Indian Banker. An alumnus of the 1974 batch of University Business School - Chandigarh, he is a former Chairman of State Bank of India. He took charge from O. P. Bhatt, on 7 April 2011 and retired on 30 September 2013. Prior to that he was the Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of the International Division of SBI.
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Dinesh Maheshwari
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- judge
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Dinesh Maheshwari is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court & High Court of Meghalaya. He took the oath as a Judge of Rajasthan High Court on 2 September 2004. He was transferred to the Allahabad High Court and remained senior Judge at the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court from 2 March 2015. He took oath as Chief Justice of the High Court of Meghalaya on 24 February 2016. On transfer to Karnataka, Justice Maheshwari took oath as 30th Chief Justice of High Court of Karnataka on 12 February 2018. He took oath as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 18 January 2019.
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Fateh Singh Rathore
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- 1938-2011 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- ecologist
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Fateh Singh Rathore was an Indian tiger conservationist. Fateh Singh joined the Indian Forest Service in 1960 and was part of the first Project Tiger team. He was widely acknowledged as the tiger guru for his legendary knowledge of the big cat. He worked over 50 years in wildlife conservation. Rathore was noted for his pioneering relocation of villages from inside the Ranthambhore National Park in 1973–75. Largely because of Mr. Rathore, "Ranthambhore became the place which brought the tiger to the consciousness of people the world over."
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Harish Meena
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- politician
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Harish Chandra Meena is an Indian Politician from the state of Rajasthan. He has been associated with Bharatiya Janata Party and currently Indian National Congress. He was a Member of Parliament of the 16th Lok Sabha from the constituency of Dausa, Rajasthan. He is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of 1976 batch and former Director General of Police (DGP). He served as DGP of Rajasthan from March 2009 to December 2013 which is recorded to be IUI the longest tenure of a DGP in Rajasthan. He has also been awarded the 1996 Indian Police Medal and 2002 President Medal.
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Jaskaur Meena
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- politician
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Jaskaur Meena is an Indian politician, a former Union minister of state in Government of India and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. She was also in charge of the Scheduled tribes (ST) Morcha (wing) of the party at the national level.
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Chhotu Ram Chaudhary
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- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- politician
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Chhotu Ram "C. R." Chaudhary is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Nagaur Constituency in Rajasthan. He was named Minister of State of the Department of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. In the cabinet expansion of September 2017, he also named Minister of State for the Ministry of Commence and Industry.He Started career as College Lecturer in Government College Sirohi, Dausa and Ajmer from 1971–1977.He is also a Retd. IAS and Ex- Chairman of Rajasthan Public Service Commission from 2006–2010.
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Baljeet Yadav
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- politician
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Baljeet Yadav was an Rajasthani politician from Behror Batkhani. He was independent member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from the Behror Constituency in Alwar district during December 2018 to December 2023.
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Mahendra Bhandari
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- 1945-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- urologistresearchersurgeonscientist
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Mahendra Bhandari is an Indian surgeon who has made substantial contributions to the specialty of urology, medical training, hospital administration, robotic surgery and medical ethics. For his efforts, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India in 2000. Bhandari is currently Senior Bio-scientist and Director of Robotic Surgery Research & Education at the Vattikuti Urology Institute (VUI) in Detroit, MI. He was the Symposium coordinator of the International Robotic Urology Symposium. He also has been the CEO of the Vattikuti Foundation since 2010.
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Mahadeo Singh Khandela
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- politician
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Mahadeo Singh Khandela is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Indian National Congress and has been elected Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Khandela and 15th Lok Sabha from Sikar. He was the minister of state in Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for the period 2009 - 2011. He was Union Minister of State, Tribal Affairs between 2011 and 2012. He has also been elected to Rajasthan Legislative Assembly between the period 1980-1990,1993-2008,2018-2023
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R.D. Singh
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Ripudaman Singh, known as R.D. Singh, is an Indian athletics coach from Hanumangarh, Rajasthan. He is a recipient of Dronacharya Award, by the government of India. He is India's first Dronacharya awardee coach in the category of sports for specially abled.
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Deepak Maheshwari
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- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- judge
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Justice Deepak Maheshwari is a former Indian judge of the Rajasthan High Court. He was administered oath on 11 April 2016 by the then Chief Justice S.K. Mittal of the Rajasthan High Court. He worked at the Principal Bench of the High Court in Jodhpur as well as its Circuit Bench in Jaipur. He also served as the Chairperson of the Solid Waste Management Committee established by National Green Tribunal (NGT), New Delhi for Rajasthan and now presides over domestic as well as international commercial arbitrations, mainly in Rajasthan.
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Rajni Bakshi
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- authorjournalist
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Rajni Bakshi is a Mumbai-based freelance journalist and author. She writes about social and political movements in contemporary India. Rajni is the founder and curator of Ahimsa Conversations, an online platform for exploring the possibilities of nonviolence. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC63Bx1fQYOkCEom93k4T2tg
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Ashok Banerjee
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India - Occupations
- academic
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Ashok Banerjee is a professor of finance at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
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Ishwar Modi
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- 1940-2017 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- sociologist
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Ishwar Modi was an Indian sociologist and a pioneer of leisure studies in India. His work in this field has been widely reviewed in both India and abroad. He completed his master's degree in sociology and PhD from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He also worked for his PhD under the title Leisure, Mass Media and Social Structure (1985) at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, with a distinguished scholar Professor Yogendra Singh before joining the Department of Sociology at the University of Rajasthan as assistant professor of sociology (September 1974).
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Govind Singh Rajpurohit
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- India
- Occupations
- writeracademic
- Biography
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Govind Singh Rajpurohit is an Indian legal educational administrator. He is Head & Dean in Department of Law University of Rajasthan. He is alumni of University of Rajasthan. He has been distinguished invitees, Chief Guest, Guest of honor in various universities, member of various committees in UGC. He is also member of statutory body, General Council of National Law University, Jodhpur.
