Rajendra Singh (RSS)
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| Born | 29 January 1922 Shahjahanpur, British India |
| Died | 14 July 2003 (aged 81) Pune, Maharashtra |
| Other names | Rajju Bhaiya |
| Alma mater | Allahabad University |
Rajendra Singh (29 January 1922 – 14 July 2003 ), popularly called Rajju Bhaiya, was the fourth Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He was chief of that organisation between 1994 and 2000. Rajendra Singh was the first non-Maharashtrian and non - Brahmin Sarsanghchalak of the RSS.
He worked as a professor and head of the Department of Physics at Allahabad University but left to devote his life to the RSS in the mid-1960s.
Rajendra Singh was born to Jwala Devi and Balbir Singh on 29 January in either 1921 or 1922 in Shahjahanpur city of Uttar Pradesh, when his father was posted there as an engineer. Originally his father Balbir Singh belonged to village Banail Pahasu of Bulandshahr district.
Singh matriculated from Unnao. After that he was enrolled at the Modern School (New Delhi) for a brief period before moving to St Joseph's College, Nainital. Progressing to Allahabad University, he obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees.
Singh was acknowledged as an exceptionally brilliant student by Sir C. V. Raman, the physicist and Nobel Prize-winner, when he was his examiner in M.Sc. He also offered Singh a fellowship for advanced research in nuclear physics.
He joined Allahabad University after majoring in Physics to teach Spectroscopy. He taught at the university for several years, where later he was appointed head of the Physics Department.
Singh was also considered an expert in nuclear physics which was very rare those days in India. He was a very popular teacher of the subject, using simple and clear concepts.
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