Manmohan Singh
26 September 1932 – 26 December 2024
Manmohan Singh was an Indian economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. Trained at Cambridge and Oxford, he was Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and, as Finance Minister from 1991, oversaw the liberalisation of the Indian economy. He sat in the Rajya Sabha for more than three decades.
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Life events
He was born in a village in what is now Pakistan's Punjab province.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe family moved to Amritsar after the partition of British India, and he continued his schooling there.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe studied at Hoshiarpur and Chandigarh before going to Britain.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe studied at St John's College as a member of the economics tripos.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis thesis at Nuffield College examined India's export performance and prospects for self-sustained growth.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe led the central bank until 1985, after earlier service as Chief Economic Adviser.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAmid a balance of payments crisis he introduced measures that reduced tariffs, devalued the rupee and dismantled industrial licensing.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe took office at the head of the United Progressive Alliance government and served two terms, until 2014.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died at the age of 92 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
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