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Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 21:08:57 +0530
From: Clema Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: "Camilla Castellino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Clema Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: FW: : How qualified were/are our PMs?
>Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:46:20 +1000
>
>Interesting !!!
>
>
>Dr Manmohan Singh, who will be sworn in as prime minister this weekend, is
>the most highly qualified occupant of the prime minister's office.
>
>How do his predecessors compare with him?
>
>Dr Manmohan Singh
>
>MA, D Phil (Oxford). Educated at the Universities of Panjab, Cambridge and
>Oxford. Winner of the University Medal for standing first in BA (Hons),
>Economics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1952; the Uttar Chand Kapur
>Medal, Panjab University, Chandigarh, for standing first in MA (Economics)
>1954; Wright's Prize for distinguished performance at St John's College,
>Cambridge, 1956 and 1957; Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge 1956.
>
>Atal Bihari Vajpayee
>
>Educated at Victoria (now Laxmi Bai) College, Gwalior, and DAV College,
>Kanpur. Vajpayee holds an MA in political science.
>
>Inder Kumar Gujral
>
>MA, BCom.
>
>H D Deve Gowda
>
>Diploma in civil engineering.
>
>P V Narasimha Rao
>
>B Sc, LLB, Sahitya Ratna. Educated at Fergusson College, Pune, and Nagpur
>University.
>
>Chandra Shekhar
>
>MA in Political Science from Allahabad University.
>
>V P Singh
>
>BA, BSc, LL.B. Educated at Allahabad and Poona University.
>
>Rajiv Gandhi
>
>Went to Trinity College, Cambridge, but soon shifted to the Imperial
>College in London. He did a course in mechanical engineering. Short stint
>at the London School of Economics.
>
>Charan Singh
>
>Science graduate, 1923, and post-graduate from Agra University in 1925.
>Also trained in law.
>
>Morarji Desai
>
>Graduate from Wilson College in the then Bombay province in 1918.
>
>Indira Gandhi
>
>Studied at Ecole Nouvelle, Bex (Switzerland), Ecole Internationale, Geneva,
>Pupils' Own School, Poona and Bombay, Badminton School, Bristol, Vishwa
>Bharati, Shantiniketan and Somerville College, Oxford. No documented
>degree. Honorary doctorates from a host of Indian and foreign universities.
>
>Lal Bahadur Shastri
>
>Gave up studies at 16 to respond to Mahatma Gandhi's call for satyagraha.
>Bachelor's degree (Shastri) from Kashi Vidyapeeth in Varanasi.
>
>Gulzarilal Nanda
>
>Twice caretaker prime minister (May 27 to June 9, 1964 and January 11 to
>24, 1966). Educated at Lahore, Agra and Allahabad. Research scholar on
>labour problems at the University of Allahabad. Professor of Economics at
>National College in Bombay province.
>
>Jawaharlal Nehru
>
>Went to Harrow, the famous public school in England. at 15. Then went to
>Cambridge for his tripos (a degree course at Cambridge is called a tripos
>after the three-legged stool on which the student traditionally sits to
>give his oral exam) in natural sciences. Called to the Bar from Inner
>Temple.
>
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