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Events in the year 1957 in the Republic of India. Incumbents ... Alagappa Chettiar, businessman and philanthropist (born 1909). 30 August – N. S. Krishnan, ...
Name (Birth–Death) Home state Former Office(s) Term of office Oath administered by (CJI) Election Election Map Prime Minister Political party Took Office Left office Time in office 1 Rajendra Prasad (1884–1963) Bihar: Minister of Agriculture: 13 May 1952 13 May 1957 10 years M. Patanjali Sastri: 1952: Jawaharlal Nehru Indian National ...
Jagadish "Jaggi" Vasudev (born 3 September, 1957), also known as Sadhguru, is an Indian guru and founder of the Isha Foundation, based in Coimbatore, India. The foundation, established in 1992, operates an ashram and yoga centre that carries out educational and spiritual activities. Sadhguru has been teaching yoga since 1982.
Since 1947, India has had 14 prime ministers. [a] Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first prime minister, serving as prime minister of the Dominion of India from 15 August 1947 until 26 January 1950, and thereafter of the Republic of India until his death in May 1964. (India conducted its first post-independence general elections in 1952).
India's share of world trade fell from 1.4% in 1951–1960 to 0.5% between 1981 and 1990. [184] However, India's export performance is argued to have shown actual sustained improvement over the period. The volume of exports grew at an annual rate of 2.9% in 1951–1960 to 7.6% in 1971–1980. [185]
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Born into a trading family with two younger brothers, Tulsi Das Mundhra and Manmohan Das Mundhra, Mundhra started life as a light-bulb salesman, and pyramided his holdings by "fast deals and stock juggling", buying shares of small companies and hiking their prices up through circular trading and rumour mongering into a Rs. 40 million (US$10 million) empire. [2]
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