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Charan Singh
Sign in to saveAlso known as Chaudhuri Charan Singh, Chaudhary Charan Singh, Chauduri Charan Singh
Prime Minister of India (1979-1980)
Charan Singh was an Indian politician who served as Prime Minister of India for about a year, from 1979 to 1980. He is a significant figure in Indian political history as he led the government during a transitional period in the late 1970s.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 22
Top works
- Spiritual discourses / by Maharaj Charan Singh
- Charan Singh Selected Speeches
- Warrior Wisdom Vol 1
- Cannibal
- In the Dream
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- India
- Active from
- 1941-02-08
- Active to
- 2011-10-10
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 13
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage
· 1998 · cited 25,146x
- Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation
· 1992 · cited 21,538x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,384x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 13,401x
- Simple Combinations of Lineage-Determining Transcription Factors Prime cis-Regulatory Elements Required for Macrophage and B Cell Identities
· 2010 · cited 13,127x
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Described at
Biografia de Chauduri Charan Singh
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Charan Singh 1990 stamp of India.jpg
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- Commons category
- Charan Singh
- date of birth
- 1902-12-23
- date of death
- 1987-01-01
- name in native language
- चौधरी चरण सिंह
- described at URL
- www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/s/singh.htm
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Article
Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) was an Indian politician, peasant leader, author and an independence activist who briefly served as the prime minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980. Singh was principally known for his land and agricultural reform initiatives, and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Baghpat. During his premiership, he was a member of the Janata Party (Secular). He served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh as a member of Bharatiya Kranti Dal. He also briefly served as the deputy prime minister of India from January 1979 to July 1979 as a member of the Janata Party. Singh is widely regarded as the "Champion of Farmers", dedicated to advocating for the well being and rights of farmers.
Singh was born in Meerut district, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. He graduated from Agra College in 1923 with a Bachelor of Science degree, and then pursued Master of Arts in history in 1925. In 1927 he completed his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Meerut College.