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Gulzari Lal Nanda

Gulzarilal Nanda
Prime Minister of India
Acting
In office
11 January 1966 – 24 January 1966
President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Preceded by Lal Bahadur Shastri
Succeeded by Indira Gandhi
In office
27 May 1964 – 9 June 1964
President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Preceded by Jawaharlal Nehru
Succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri
Minister of Home Affairs
In office
29 August 1963 – 14 November 1966
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Indira Gandhi
Preceded by Lal Bahadur Shastri
Succeeded by Yashwantrao Chavan
Personal details
Born (1898-07-04)4 July 1898
Sialkot, Punjab, British India
(now in Punjab, Pakistan)
Died 15 January 1998(1998-01-15) (aged 99)
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Political party Indian National Congress
Spouse(s) Lakshmi
Children 2 sons and 1 daughter
Alma mater Allahabad University
Religion Hinduism

Gulzarilal Nanda (4 July 1898 – 15 January 1998) was an Indian politician and economist who specialized in labour issues. He was the Prime Minister of India for two short periods following the deaths of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966. Both his terms ended after the ruling Indian National Congress's parliamentary party elected a new prime minister. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1997.

Nanda was born on 4 July 1898 in Sialkot in the Punjab Province of British India into a Punjabi Hindu 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, Amritsar, Agra, and Allahabad.

Nanda worked as a research scholar on labour problems at Allahabad University (1920–1921), and became a Professor of Economics at National College in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1921. The same year, he joined the Indian Non-Cooperation Movement against the British Raj. In 1922, he became secretary of the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association where he worked until 1946. He was imprisoned for Satyagraha in 1932, and again from 1942 to 1944.. He was honored with "Proud Past Alumni" in the list of 42 members, from "Allahabad University Alumni Association", NCR, Ghaziabad (Greater Noida) Chapter 2007-2008 registered under society act 1860 with registration no. 407/2000.


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