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Shankar Dayal Sharma

1918 - 1999

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Shankar Dayal Sharma (Hindi pronunciation: [ˈɕəŋkəɾ d̪əˈjaːl ˈʃəɾmaː] ; 19 August 1918 – 26 December 1999) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the President of India from 1992 to 1997. Born in Bhopal, Sharma studied at Agra, Allahabad and Lucknow and received a doctorate in constitutional law from the University of Cambridge and was a bar-at-law from Lincoln's Inn and a Brandeis Fellow at Harvard University. During 1948–49, Sharma was one of the leaders of the movement for the merger of Bhopal State with India, a cause for which he served eight months' imprisonment. A member of the Indian National Congress party, Sharma was chief minister (1952–56) of Bhopal State and served as a cabinet minister (1956–1971) in the government of Madhya Pradesh holding several portfolios. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shankar Dayal Sharma is the 10,392nd most popular politician (down from 8,174th in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from India (down from 272nd in 2019) and the 124th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 10,392 out of 19,576. Before him are Abdallah ibn Tahir al-Khurasani, Marcia, Seni Pramoj, Mithridates II of Commagene, Herman Willem Daendels, and Newt Gingrich. After him are Madan Mohan Malaviya, Euphorbus, Son Ngoc Thanh, Baron Waqa, Akhmet Baitursynov, and Countess Friederike von Schlieben.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 134. Before him are Marie Smith Jones, David Ausubel, Ján Kadár, Willi Graf, Hella Haasse, and Aldo van Eyck. After him are Humaira Begum, George Mosse, Giovanni Canestri, Abraham Robinson, Joseph Wiseman, and Mickey Spillane. Among people deceased in 1999, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 106. Before him are Kisshomaru Ueshiba, Reiner Klimke, Aldo van Eyck, Morris West, Jean Guitton, and Ernest Gold. After him are Oscar Cullmann, Fritz Fischer, Karekin I, Carlos Romero, Theodore Hall, and George Mosse.

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In India

Among people born in India, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 380 out of 1,861. Before him are Swaminarayan (1781), Feroze Gandhi (1912), Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913), Khudiram Bose (1889), Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864), and Shakuntala Devi (1929). After him are Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Guru Hargobind (1595), Ibn Warraq (1946), Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930), Idries Shah (1924), and Rash Behari Bose (1886).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Shankar Dayal Sharma ranks 124. Before him are Rani Durgavati (1524), Pinarayi Vijayan (1945), Rajnath Singh (1951), Feroze Gandhi (1912), Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913), and Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864). After him are Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Guru Hargobind (1595), Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930), K. Kamaraj (1903), Nasir-ud-Daulah (1794), and Lahiri Mahasaya (1828).

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