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Karan Singh
Indian politician (born )
For other uses, see Karan Singh (disambiguation).
Karan Singh (born 9 March ) is an Indian politician and philosopher.[1] He is the titular Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. From to he was the Sadr-i-Riyasat (President) of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.[2] He is the chairperson trustee of the Dharmarth Trust of Jammu and Kashmir which maintains temples in north India and works in other areas such as historical preservation.[3][4]
Singh was a member of India's Upper House of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, representing the national capital territory of Delhi.
He is a senior member of the Indian National Congress party who served successively as President (Sadr-i-Riyasat)[2][5] and Governor of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. He was a life trustee and president of India International Centre. He was elected chancellor of Banaras Hindu University for three terms[6] until when he was succeeded by Giridhar Malaviya.[7] He has been a prospective presidential candidate over the years.[8][9][10][11]
Early and personal life
Yuvraj Karan Singh was born at the Martinez Hotel,[12]Cannes, France, into the Dogra dynasty.
He was the only son of Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir.[13] His mother, Maharani Tara Devi, who was the fourth wife of his father, was the daughter of a landowning KatochRajput family and came from (Vijaypur near Bilaspur) in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh.[dubious &#; discuss][citation needed]
Singh was educated at Doon School, Dehradun, a boarding school, which represented a departure from the usual practise of princes being educated by tutors at home.
The school was very elite, but it nevertheless meant that Karan Singh shared the classroom (though not the hostel) with boys from non-royal backgrounds, and received a standard education. Unusually for the scion of an Indian royal family, he then enrolled in a college for a graduate degree, receiving first a B.A. degree from Jammu and Kashmir University, Srinagar, and subsequently an M.A.
degree in Political Science and a PhD from University of Delhi.[14]
In , the year-old Karan Singh was married to year-old Yasho Rajya Lakshmi, granddaughter of Mohan Shumsher Rana, Maharajah of Nepal, belonging to the Rana dynasty of Nepal. Her father, General Maharajkumar Sharada Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, was a son of Mohan Shumsher.[15] The match, arranged by their families in the usual Indian way, lasted all their lives.
The couple had three children:
Political career
In , at age of eighteen, Singh was appointed as the Prince Regent of Jammu and Kashmir state after his father stepped down as the ruler, following the state's accession to India.[18] From that point, he served successively as regent, the Sadr-i-Riyasat, and the first governor of the state of Jammu and Kashmir from to
On 8 August as the President (Sadr-i-Riyasat) of Jammu and Kashmir, Karan Singh backed a coup d'etat against the elected Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah,[citation needed] allegedly for harboring independent ambitions for Kashmir, which led to the imprisonment of Abdullah for eleven years following the Kashmir Conspiracy Case.
In , he resigned as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, and became the youngest-ever member of the Union Cabinet, holding the portfolios of Tourism and Civil Aviation between and [19][20] Two years later, he voluntarily surrendered his privy purse, which he had been entitled to since the death of his father in He placed the entire sum into a charitable trust named after his parents.
In the 26th amendment[21] to the Constitution of India promulgated in , the Government of India, of which Karan Singh was a Union cabinet minister, abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and remuneration (privy purses).[22] During the conclusion of the Cold War, he was India's ambassador to the USA.
Singh received the Padma Vibhushan in
In , he was sent as an envoy to the Eastern Bloc nations to explain India's position with regard to East Pakistan, then engaged in civil war with West Pakistan.[23] He attempted to resign following an aircraft crash in , but the resignation was not accepted. The same year, he became the Minister for Health and Family planning, serving in this post until
Following the Emergency, Karan Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha from Udhampur in on a Congress ticket [the party had not split into Congress(I) and Congress(U) factions till then], and became Minister of Education and Culture in in Charan Singh's cabinet, representing Congress(U), which had split from Indira's Congress.
Notably, Charan Singh became Prime Minister after the fall of Janata Party government headed by Morarji Desai. And Charan Singh himself resigned without facing Parliament even for a day as he was not sure of having a confidence motion passed in his favour. Karan Singh contested the Lok Sabha election on a Congress(U) ticket and won.
In –, he served as Indian Ambassador to the US, and this experience became the subject of a book he wrote, "Brief Sojourn".[24]
From to , Karan Singh was a member of the Lok Sabha. In , he contested the Lok Sabha polls as an independent candidate from Jammu but lost the election. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 30 November to 12 August , representing National Conference, a Muslim dominated party active in Jammu and Kashmir.
History of karan singh Open in new tab. Succeeded by R. Singh in Outlook India magazine.Later, he was a Rajya Sabha member from 28 January to 27 January representing INC. He is known for switching his loyalties from one political party to another quite frequently. He has served as Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University, Jammu and Kashmir University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and NIIT University.[25]
Later life
He has been engaged by Sansad TV (a merged Global TV Channel of Lok Sabha TV and Rajya Sabha TV) as a Guest Anchor along with some other senior celebrated experts from diverse fields such as Bibek Debroy, Amitabh Kant, Shashi Tharoor, Hemant Batra, Maroof Raza and Sanjeev Sanyal to present some flagship programmes.[26][27][28]
Academic career
Karan Singh served as the chancellor of Banaras Hindu University for three terms up until In , he awarded an honorary doctorate to the then prime minister Manmohan Singh,[29] and in , he was asked by university administration to award an honorary doctorate to prime minister Narendra Modi, that the prime minister declined.[30]
Honours and awards
India:
Views
On population
"In , I led the Indian delegation to the World Population Conference in Bucharest, where my statement that 'development is the best contraceptive' became widely known and oft quoted.
I must admit that 20 years later I am inclined to reverse this, and my position now is that 'contraception is the best development'.”[31]
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- Hymn to Shiva and Other Poems ()
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- Mountain of Shiva ()
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- Dr karan singh net worth
- Dr karan singh daughter
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See also
References
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Karan singh tallest kid Hidden categories: Commons category link from Wikidata Webarchive template wayback links People stubs. Pratap Chandra Chunder. He invited us to his house and we had a function there… I hardly ever met him when he was the Gujarat chief minister. Sivaraman M.27 November Retrieved 22 February
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(). The Indian princes and their states. Cambridge University Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
, "Through a constitutional amendment passed in , Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of the titles, privy purses and regal privileges which her father's government had granted." (p ). 2.Naipaul, V. S. (), India: A Wounded Civilization, Random House Digital, Inc., p.&#;37, ISBN&#; Quote: "The princes of India – their number and variety reflecting to a large extent the chaos that had come to the country with the break up of the Mughal empire – had lost real power in the British time.Through generations of idle servitude they had grown to specialize only in style.
Karan singh mp We were summoned to Delhi in April of that year. But with her overwhelming majority in Parliament, the prime minister had no need to compromise. Archived from the original on 3 July Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use Indian English from February All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English EngvarB from August Use dmy dates from July All accuracy disputes Articles with disputed statements from January All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from January Articles with unsourced statements from September Commons category link from Wikidata S-bef: 'before' parameter includes the word 'created' Template:Succession box: 'before' parameter includes the word 'created'.A bogus, extinguishable glamour: in , with Independence, they had lost their state, and Mrs. Gandhi in had, without much public outcry, abolished their privy purses and titles." (pp 37–38). 3.Schmidt, Karl J. (), An atlas and survey of South Asian history, M.E. Sharpe, p.&#;78, ISBN&#; Quote: "Although the Indian states were alternately requested or forced into union with either India or Pakistan, the real death of princely India came when the Twenty-sixth Amendment Act () abolished the princes' titles, privileges, and privy purses." (page 78).
4.Breckenridge, Carol Appadurai (), Consuming modernity: public culture in a South Asian world, U of Minnesota Press, p.&#;84, ISBN&#; Quote: "The third stage in the political evolution of the princes from rulers to citizens occurred in , when the constitution ceased to recognize them as princes and their privy purses, titles, and special privileges were abolished." (page 84).
5.Guha, Ramachandra (), India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, HarperCollins, p.&#;, ISBN&#; Quote: "Her success at the polls emboldened Mrs. Gandhi to act decisively against the princes. Through , the two sides tried and failed to find a settlement. The princes were willing to forgo their privy purses, but hoped at least to save their titles.
But with her overwhelming majority in Parliament, the prime minister had no need to compromise. On 2 December, she introduced a bill to amend the constitution and abolish all princely privileges. It was passed in the Lok Sabha by votes to six, and in the Rajya Sabha by votes to seven. In her own speech, the prime minister invited 'the princes to join the elite of the modern age, the elite which earns respect by its talent, energy and contribution to human progress, all of which can only be done when we work together as equals without regarding anybody as of special status.' " (page ).
6.Cheesman, David (). Landlord power and rural indebtedness in colonial Sind, –. London: Routledge. p.&#; ISBN&#;. Quote: "The Indian princes survived the British Raj by only a few years.
Karan singh magic: Retrieved The head of the state was to be elected by the state Assembly. The Indian republic stripped them of their powers and then their titles. Press Information Bureau, Government of India.
The Indian republic stripped them of their powers and then their titles." (page 10). 7.Merriam-Webster, Inc (), Merriam-Webster's geographical dictionary, Merriam-Webster, p.&#;, ISBN&#; Quote: "Indian States: "Various (formerly) semi-independent areas in India ruled by native princes Under British rule administered by residents assisted by political agents.
Titles and remaining privileges of princes abolished by Indian government " (page ). 8.Ward, Philip (September ), Northern India, Rajasthan, Agra, Delhi: a travel guide, Pelican Publishing, p.&#;91, ISBN&#; Quote: "A monarchy is only as good as the reigning monarch: thus it is with the princely states.
Once they seemed immutable, invincible. In they were "derecognized," their privileges, privy purses and titles all abolished at a stroke" (page 91)
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D Courses". .
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- ^Karan Singh (). Raghav Verma (ed.). EXAMINED LIFE&#;: essays and reflections by karan singh. [S.l.]: HARPERCOLLINS INDIA. ISBN&#;.Karan singh tall For other uses, see Karan Singh disambiguation. The Life and Times of Lokmanya Tilak. Indian politician born The Supreme Court judgment on Article some days ago had transported him back to the events that unfolded after Independence — years that shaped and perhaps transformed his life.
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