Gulzarilal Nanda (Hindi: गुलजारीलाल नन्दा Gulzārīlāl Nandā; 4 July 1898 - 15 January 1998) was an Indian politician and an economist with specialization in labor problems. He was the interim Prime Minister of India twice for thirteen days each: the first time after the death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, and the second time after the death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966. (Both his terms ended after the ruling Indian N...
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Gulzarilal Nanda (Hindi: गुलजारीलाल नन्दा Gulzārīlāl Nandā; 4 July 1898 - 15 January 1998) was an Indian politician and an economist with specialization in labor problems. He was the interim Prime Minister of India twice for thirteen days each: the first time after the death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, and the second time after the death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966. (Both his terms ended after the ruling Indian National Congress party procedurally elected a new prime minister.) The Government of India honored Nanda with a Bharat Ratna award in 1997.
Nanda was born on 4 July 1898 in Sialkot in the Punjab Province of British India into a Hindu Gujjar family . (After the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947, Sialkot became a part of the Punjab Province of Pakistan.) Nanda received his education in Lahore, Agra, and Allahabad.
Nanda worked as a research scholar on labor problems at Allahabad University (1920-1921), and became a...
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