Also known as Shanker Dayal Sharma
President of India from 1992 to 1997
Shankar Dayal Sharma served as the President of India, the country's head of state, from 1992 to 1997. As president during this period, he held one of India's highest constitutional offices, representing the nation during an important phase of its democratic development.
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Shankar Dayal Sharma ( Hindi: [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 and vice president of India from 1987 to 1992.
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.
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