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Zail Singh

President of India from 1982 to 1987

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Zail Singh was an Indian politician who served as the President of India, the country's ceremonial head of state, from 1982 to 1987. As president during an important period in independent India's history, he held one of the nation's highest constitutional offices, though executive power rested with the Prime Minister.

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Born: 1916-05-05
Died: 1994-12-25
Works: 2

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Memoirs of Giani Zail Singh
Speeches of President Giani Zail Singh

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Type: Person
Country: IN
Active from: 1941-02-08
Active to: 2011-10-10

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The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage
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Giani Zail Singh (pronunciation, born Jarnail Singh; 5 May 1916 – 25 December 1994) was an Indian politician who served as President of India from 1982 to 1987 and chief minister of Punjab in the 1970s. He was the first Sikh to become president.

Born in Sandhwan in the princely state of Faridkot, Singh trained to be a granthi and was given the title of giani, meaning a learned man, while training at the Sikh Missionary School in Amritsar. Singh was associated with peasant agitations and the movement seeking a representative government in Faridkot. His political activism in the Praja Mandal, an organisation allied with the Indian National Congress, saw him sentenced to solitary confinement between 1938 and 1943. He led a flag satyagraha and formed a parallel government in Faridkot State which were called off only after the intervention of Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel. The stints in jail inspired him to change his name to Zail Singh.