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Vice President of India. Minister of Defence. 25 July 1987 25 July 1992 5 years Raghunandan Swarup Pathak: 1987: Shankar Dayal Sharma: 9 Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999) Madhya Pradesh: Vice President of India. Governor of Maharashtra. 25 July 1992 25 July 1997 5 years M. H. Kania: 1992: K. R. Narayanan: 10 K. R. Narayanan (1920–2005 ...
The current head of state of India is Droupadi Murmu, elected in 2022 after being nominated by the National Democratic Alliance. From 1947 to 1950, the head of state under the Indian Independence Act 1947 was King of India, [1] [2] who was also the monarch of the United Kingdom and of the other Dominions of the British Commonwealth.
Malaysian Indian of Malayali descent [4] [5] 10 May 2018 1 March 2020: 4 Devan Nair (1923–2005) President of Singapore: Head of state Singapore: 23 October 1981 27 March 1985 3 years, 155 days Jasin, Malacca, Straits Settlements: Indian Singaporean of Malayali descent [6] [7] 5 Fred Ramdat Misier (1926–2004) President of Suriname: Head of ...
The East India Company officers lived lavish lives, the company finances were in shambles, and the company's effectiveness in India was examined by the British crown after 1858. As a result, the East India Company lost its powers of government and British India formally came under direct Crown control, with an appointed Governor-General of ...
1909 map of the British Indian Empire, showing British India in two shades of pink and the princely states in yellow The Bombay Presidency was bounded on the north by Baluchistan , the Punjab and Rajputana ; on the east by Indore , the Central Provinces and Hyderabad ; on the south by Madras Presidency and the Kingdom of Mysore ; and on the ...
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan BR (pronunciation ⓘ; 5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975; natively Radhakrishna) was an Indian politician, philosopher and statesman who served as the President of India from 1962 to 1967. He previously served as the vice president of India from 1952 to 1962.
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Motilal, a self-made barrister of wealth, served as president of the Indian National Congress in 1919 and 1928. [5] [6] Swarup Rani, raised in a family settled in Lahore, [7] was Motilal's second wife, the first having died in childbirth. Jawaharlal was the firstborn. [8]