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.
Karan Singh
Dr. Karan Singh Jaipur Literature Festival 2026
1st
Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
30 March 1965 – 15 May 1967
Preceded by
Position established
Himself as
Sadr-i-Riyasat
Succeeded by
Bhagwan Sahay
Sadr-i-Riyasat
of
Jammu and Kashmir
In office
17 November 1952 – 30 March 1965
Prime Minister
Sheikh Abdullah
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad
Khwaja Shamsuddin
Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Himself as
Governor
Prince Regent of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
20 June 1949 – 17 November 1952
Monarch
Sir Hari Singh
Ambassador of India to the United States of America
In office
1989–1990
Preceded by
P. K. Kaul
Succeeded by
Abid Hussain
Union Minister of Education and Culture
In office
30 July 1979 – 14 January 1980
Prime Minister
Charan Singh
Preceded by
Pratap Chandra Chunder
Succeeded by
B. Shankaranand
Union Minister for Health and Family Planning
In office
9 November 1973 – 24 March 1977
Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi
Preceded by
Uma Shankar Dikshit
Succeeded by
Raj Narain
Union Minister of Tourism
and
Civil Aviation
In office
13 March 1967 – 9 November 1973
Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi
Preceded by
Ministry established
Succeeded by
R. Bahadur
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
28 January 2000 – 27 January 2018
Succeeded by
Sanjay Singh
Constituency
National Capital Territory of Delhi
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1971–1984
Preceded by
G. S. Brigadier
Succeeded by
Girdhari Lal Dogra
Constituency
Udhampur
In office
1967–1968
Preceded by
Constituency established
Succeeded by
G. S. Brigadier
Personal details
Born
(
1931-03-09
)
9 March 1931
(age 95)
Cannes
,
France
Party
Indian National Congress
(1947–1979; 2000–present)
Other political
affiliations
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
(1996–1999)
Independent
(1984)
Indian National Congress (U)
(1979–1984)
Spouse
Yasho Rajya Lakshmi
(
m.
1949; died 2009)
Relations
Dogra dynasty
Chitrangada Singh
(daughter-in-law)
Bhim Singh
(kinsman)
Dhian Singh
(ancestral Kinsman)
Children
Vikramaditya Singh
,
Ajatshatru Singh
, Jyotsna Singh
Parent(s)
Maharaja
Sir Hari Singh
Maharani Tara Devi
Alma mater
University of Kashmir
(
B.A.
)
University of Delhi
(
M.A.
,
PhD
)
Awards
Padma Vibhushan
Signature
Website
karansingh.com
Karan Singh
(born 9 March 1931) is an Indian politician and philosopher.
[
1
]
He is the
titular Maharaja
of the
princely state
of
Jammu and Kashmir
. From 1952 to 1965 he was the
Sadr-i-Riyasat
(President) of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
[
2
]
He is the chairperson trustee of the
Dharmarth Trust of Jammu and Kashmir
which maintains 175 temples in north India and works in other areas such as historical preservation.
[
3
]
[
4
]
Singh was a member of India's Upper House of Parliament, the
Rajya Sabha
, representing the national capital territory of
Delhi
. He is a senior member of the
Indian National Congress
party who served successively as President (
Sadr-i-Riyasat
)
[
2
]
[
5
]
and
Governor of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir
. He was a life trustee and president of
India International Centre
. He was elected chancellor of
Banaras Hindu University
for three terms
[
6
]
until 2018 when he was succeeded by
Giridhar Malaviya
.
[
7
]
He has been a prospective presidential candidate over the years.
[
8
]
[
9
]
[
10
]
[
11
]
Early and personal life
[
edit
]
Yuvraj
Karan Singh was born at the
Martinez Hotel
,
[
12
]
Cannes
,
France
, into the
Dogra dynasty
. He was the only son of
Sir Hari Singh
,
Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir
.
[
13
]
His mother,
Maharani Tara Devi
, who was the fourth wife of his father, was the daughter of a landowning
Katoch
Rajput
family and came from (Vijaypur near
Bilaspur
) in
Kangra district
of
Himachal Pradesh
.
[
dubious
–
discuss
]
[
citation needed
]
Singh was educated at
Doon School
,
Dehradun
, a boarding school, which represented a departure from the usual practise of princes being educated by tutors at home. The school was very elite, but it nevertheless meant that Karan Singh shared the classroom (though not the hostel) with boys from non-royal backgrounds, and received a standard education. Unusually for the scion of an Indian royal family, he then enrolled in a college for a graduate degree, receiving first a
B.A.
degree from
Jammu and Kashmir University
,
Srinagar
, and subsequently an
M.A.
degree in Political Science and a
PhD
from
University of Delhi
.
[
14
]
On 4 March 1949, the 18-year-old Yuvraj Karan Singh was married to 12-year-old Yasho Rajya Lakshmi (7 January 1937 – 24 May 2009), the granddaughter of
Mohan Shumsher Rana, Maharajah of Nepal
, belonging to the
Rana dynasty
of
Nepal
. Her father, General Maharajkumar Sharada Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, was a son of Mohan Shumsher.
[
15
]
The match, arranged by their families in the usual Indian way, lasted all their lives until her death in 2009, aged 72. The couple had three children:
Yuvraj
Vikramaditya Singh
, elder son and crown prince; married
Chitrangada Scindia
, the daughter of
Madhavrao Scindia
of Gwalior, in 1987.
[
16
]
Ajatshatru Singh
, second son; took to politics, was elected to the state assembly from the Nagrota constituency and became a minister in the state government. His wife is the daughter of an army officer.
Jyotsna Singh, only daughter, married to Dhirendra Singh Chauhan, belonging to
Mainpuri
in
Uttar Pradesh
.
[
17
]
In the early 1960s, he
took initiation
from Sri
Madhava Ashish
, a disciple of Sri
Krishna Prem
of the
Mirtola
ashram.
[
18
]
Political career
[
edit
]
In 1949, at age of eighteen, Singh was appointed as the Prince Regent of
Jammu and Kashmir
state after his father stepped down as the ruler, following the state's accession to India.
[
19
]
From that point, he served successively as regent, the
Sadr-i-Riyasat
, and the first governor of the state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1965 to 1967.
On 8 August 1953 as the President (
Sadr-i-Riyasat
) of Jammu and Kashmir, Karan Singh backed a
coup d'etat
against the elected Prime Minister
Sheikh Abdullah
,
[
citation needed
]
allegedly for harboring independent ambitions for Kashmir, which led to the imprisonment of Abdullah for eleven years following the
Kashmir Conspiracy Case
.
In 1967, he resigned as
Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
, and became the youngest-ever member of the Union Cabinet, holding the portfolios of Tourism and Civil Aviation between 1967 and 1973.
[
20
]
[
21
]
Two years later, he voluntarily surrendered his privy purse, which he had been entitled to since the death of his father in 1961. He placed the entire sum into a charitable trust named after his parents.
In the 26th amendment
[
22
]
to the
Constitution of India
promulgated in 1971, the Government of India, of which Karan Singh was a
Union cabinet
minister, abolished all official symbols of
princely India
, including titles, privileges, and remuneration (
privy purses
).
[
23
]
During the conclusion of the
Cold War
, he was India's ambassador to the
USA
. Singh received the
Padma Vibhushan
in 2005.
Karan Singh and President of India
Pratibha Patil
present the
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
to German Chancellor
Angela Merkel
at the
Presidential Palace
in New Delhi, India in 2009.
In 1971, he was sent as an envoy to the Eastern Bloc nations to explain India's position with regard to East Pakistan, then engaged in civil war with West Pakistan.
[
24
]
He attempted to resign following an aircraft crash in 1973, but the resignation was not accepted. The same year, he became the Minister for Health and Family planning, serving in this post until 1977.
Following the Emergency, Karan Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha from Udhampur in 1977 on a Congress ticket [the party had not split into Congress(I) and Congress(U) factions till then], and became Minister of Education and Culture in 1979 in Charan Singh's cabinet, representing Congress(U), which had split from Indira's Congress. Notably, Charan Singh became Prime Minister after the fall of Janata Party government headed by Morarji Desai. And Charan Singh himself resigned without facing Parliament even for a day as he was not sure of having a confidence motion passed in his favour. Karan Singh contested the 1980 Lok Sabha election on a Congress(U) ticket and won. In 1989–1990, he served as Indian Ambassador to the US, and this experience became the subject of a book he wrote, "Brief Sojourn".
[
25
]
From 1967 to 1984, Karan Singh was a member of the Lok Sabha. In 1984, he contested the Lok Sabha polls as an independent candidate from Jammu but lost the election. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 30 November 1996 to 12 August 1999, representing
National Conference
, a Muslim dominated party active in
Jammu and Kashmir
. Later, he was a
Rajya Sabha
member from 28 January 2000 to 27 January 2018 representing
INC
. He is known for switching his loyalties from one political party to another quite frequently. He has served as Chancellor of
Banaras Hindu University
, Jammu and Kashmir University,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
, and NIIT University.
[
26
]
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
addressing at the launch of a film -
I Believe Universal Values for a Global Society
, by
Raja Choudhury
based on the beliefs of Dr. Karan Singh in 2011.
Karan Singh, along with Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
and
Rahul Gandhi
present the
Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award
to K
iran Seth
in 2011.
Karan Singh meets Hillary Clinton along with Congress party President Sonia Gandhi, and Rahul Gandhi. July 2009
Later life
[
edit
]
Singh has been engaged by
Sansad TV
(a merged Global TV Channel of
Lok Sabha TV
and
Rajya Sabha TV
) as a Guest Anchor along with some other senior celebrated experts from diverse fields such as
Bibek Debroy
,
Amitabh Kant
,
Shashi Tharoor
,
Hemant Batra
,
Maroof Raza
and
Sanjeev Sanyal
to present some flagship programmes.
[
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]
[
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]
[
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]
Election Contested
[
edit
]
Lok Sabha
[
edit
]
Rajya Sabha
[
edit
]
Position
Party
Constituency
From
To
Tenure
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
(1st Term)
JKNC
Jammu & Kashmir
30 November
1996
12 August
1999
2 years, 255 days
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
(2nd Term)
INC
N.C.T. Delhi
28 January
2000
27 January
2006
17 years, 364 days
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
(3rd Term)
28 January
2006
27 January
2012
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
(4th Term)
28 January
2012
27 January
2018
Academic career
[
edit
]
Karan Singh served as the chancellor of
Banaras Hindu University
for three terms up until 2018. In 2008, he awarded an honorary doctorate to the then prime minister
Manmohan Singh
,
[
30
]
and in 2016, he was asked by university administration to award an honorary doctorate to prime minister
Narendra Modi
, that the prime minister declined.
[
31
]
Honours and awards
[
edit
]
The Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University, Dr. Karan Singh presenting Honorary Doctorate Degree to the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, at the '90th Convocation Ceremony' in Varanasi on 15 March 2008
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
being welcomed by Dr. Karan Singh, on his arrival at the
Banaras Hindu University
, in
Varanasi
on February 22, 2016.
India
:
Padma Vibhushan
(2005).
Views
[
edit
]
On population
[
edit
]
"In 1974, I led the Indian delegation to the World Population Conference in Bucharest, where my statement that 'development is the best contraceptive' became widely known and oft quoted. I must admit that 20 years later I am inclined to reverse this, and my position now is that 'contraception is the best development'.”
[
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]
Bibliography
[
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]
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Essays on Hinduism
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ISBN
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.
Humanity at the Crossroads
, with
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. Oxford University Press, 1988.
Autobiography
(2 vols.)(1989)
Brief Sojourn
(1991)
Hymn to Shiva and Other Poems
(1991)
The Transition to a Global Society
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Mountain of Shiva
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Autobiography
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ISBN
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.
Hinduism
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ISBN
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Mundaka Upanishad: The Bridge to Immortality
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ISBN
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.
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]
[
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]
See also
[
edit
]
Instrument of Accession (Jammu and Kashmir)
to the
Dominion of India
List of topics on the land and the people of Jammu and Kashmir
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External links
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Karan Singh
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Detailed Profile: Dr. Karan Singh
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Dr. Karan Singh's Official Website
Film: I Believe: Universal Values for a Global Society
with Dr. Singh and by
Raja Choudhury
.
Proclamation of May 1, 1951 on Jammu & Kashmir Constituent Assembly by Yuvraj (Crown Prince) Karan Singh from the Official website of Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India
Political offices
Preceded by
Post created following abdication of
Hari Singh
Prince Regent of Jammu and Kashmir
1949–1952
Succeeded by
Head of State of Jammu and Kashmir (Sadr-i-Riyasat)
Preceded by
Prince Regent of Jammu and Kashmir
Head of State of Jammu and Kashmir (Sadr-i-Riyasat)
1952–1965
Succeeded by
Succeeded by that of
Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
Preceded by
Head of State of Jammu and Kashmir (Sadr-i-Riyasat)
Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
1965–1967
Succeeded by
Bhagwan Sahay
Preceded by
Ministry established
Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation
13 March 1967 – 9 November 1973
Succeeded by
R. Bahadur
Preceded by
Uma Shankar Dikshit
Minister of Health and Family Planning
9 November 1973 – 24 March 1977
Succeeded by
Raj Narain
Preceded by
Minister of Education and Culture
1979–1980
Succeeded by
Preceded by
P.K. Kaul
Indian Ambassador to the United States
1989–1990
Succeeded by
Abid Hussain
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Indian politician (born 1931)
For other uses, see
Karan Singh (disambiguation)
.
Karan Singh
Dr. Karan Singh Jaipur Literature Festival 2026
1st
Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
30 March 1965 – 15 May 1967
Preceded by
Position established
Himself as
Sadr-i-Riyasat
Succeeded by
Bhagwan Sahay
Sadr-i-Riyasat
of
Jammu and Kashmir
In office
17 November 1952 – 30 March 1965
Prime Minister
Sheikh Abdullah
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad
Khwaja Shamsuddin
Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Himself as
Governor
Prince Regent of Jammu and Kashmir
In office
20 June 1949 – 17 November 1952
Monarch
Sir Hari Singh
Ambassador of India to the United States of America
In office
1989–1990
Preceded by
P. K. Kaul
Succeeded by
Abid Hussain
Union Minister of Education and Culture
In office
30 July 1979 – 14 January 1980
Prime Minister
Charan Singh
Preceded by
Pratap Chandra Chunder
Succeeded by
B. Shankaranand
Union Minister for Health and Family Planning
In office
9 November 1973 – 24 March 1977
Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi
Preceded by
Uma Shankar Dikshit
Succeeded by
Raj Narain
Union Minister of Tourism
and
Civil Aviation
In office
13 March 1967 – 9 November 1973
Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi
Preceded by
Ministry established
Succeeded by
R. Bahadur
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
28 January 2000 – 27 January 2018
Succeeded by
Sanjay Singh
Constituency
National Capital Territory of Delhi
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1971–1984
Preceded by
G. S. Brigadier
Succeeded by
Girdhari Lal Dogra
Constituency
Udhampur
In office
1967–1968
Preceded by
Constituency established
Succeeded by
G. S. Brigadier
Personal details
Born
(
1931-03-09
)
9 March 1931
(age 95)
Cannes
,
France
Party
Indian National Congress
(1947–1979; 2000–present)
Other political
affiliations
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
(1996–1999)
Independent
(1984)
Indian National Congress (U)
(1979–1984)
Spouse
Yasho Rajya Lakshmi
(
m.
1949; died 2009)
Relations
Dogra dynasty
Chitrangada Singh
(daughter-in-law)
Bhim Singh
(kinsman)
Dhian Singh
(ancestral Kinsman)
Children
Vikramaditya Singh
,
Ajatshatru Singh
, Jyotsna Singh
Parent(s)
Maharaja
Sir Hari Singh
Maharani Tara Devi
Alma mater
University of Kashmir
(
B.A.
)
University of Delhi
(
M.A.
,
PhD
)
Awards
Padma Vibhushan
Signature
Website
karansingh.com
Karan Singh
(born 9 March 1931) is an Indian politician and philosopher.
[
1
]
He is the
titular Maharaja
of the
princely state
of
Jammu and Kashmir
. From 1952 to 1965 he was the
Sadr-i-Riyasat
(President) of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
[
2
]
He is the chairperson trustee of the
Dharmarth Trust of Jammu and Kashmir
which maintains 175 temples in north India and works in other areas such as historical preservation.
[
3
]
[
4
]
Singh was a member of India's Upper House of Parliament, the
Rajya Sabha
, representing the national capital territory of
Delhi
. He is a senior member of the
Indian National Congress
party who served successively as President (
Sadr-i-Riyasat
)
[
2
]
[
5
]
and
Governor of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir
. He was a life trustee and president of
India International Centre
. He was elected chancellor of
Banaras Hindu University
for three terms
[
6
]
until 2018 when he was succeeded by
Giridhar Malaviya
.
[
7
]
He has been a prospective presidential candidate over the years.
[
8
]
[
9
]
[
10
]
[
11
]
Early and personal life
[
edit
]
Yuvraj
Karan Singh was born at the
Martinez Hotel
,
[
12
]
Cannes
,
France
, into the
Dogra dynasty
. He was the only son of
Sir Hari Singh
,
Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir
.
[
13
]
His mother,
Maharani Tara Devi
, who was the fourth wife of his father, was the daughter of a landowning
Katoch
Rajput
family and came from (Vijaypur near
Bilaspur
) in
Kangra district
of
Himachal Pradesh
.
[
dubious
–
discuss
]
[
citation needed
]
Singh was educated at
Doon School
,
Dehradun
, a boarding school, which represented a departure from the usual practise of princes being educated by tutors at home. The school was very elite, but it nevertheless meant that Karan Singh shared the classroom (though not the hostel) with boys from non-royal backgrounds, and received a standard education. Unusually for the scion of an Indian royal family, he then enrolled in a college for a graduate degree, receiving first a
B.A.
degree from
Jammu and Kashmir University
,
Srinagar
, and subsequently an
M.A.
degree in Political Science and a
PhD
from
University of Delhi
.
[
14
]
On 4 March 1949, the 18-year-old Yuvraj Karan Singh was married to 12-year-old Yasho Rajya Lakshmi (7 January 1937 – 24 May 2009), the granddaughter of
Mohan Shumsher Rana, Maharajah of Nepal
, belonging to the
Rana dynasty
of
Nepal
. Her father, General Maharajkumar Sharada Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, was a son of Mohan Shumsher.
[
15
]
The match, arranged by their families in the usual Indian way, lasted all their lives until her death in 2009, aged 72. The couple had three children:
Yuvraj
Vikramaditya Singh
, elder son and crown prince; married
Chitrangada Scindia
, the daughter of
Madhavrao Scindia
of Gwalior, in 1987.
[
16
]
Ajatshatru Singh
, second son; took to politics, was elected to the state assembly from the Nagrota constituency and became a minister in the state government. His wife is the daughter of an army officer.
Jyotsna Singh, only daughter, married to Dhirendra Singh Chauhan, belonging to
Mainpuri
in
Uttar Pradesh
.
[
17
]
In the early 1960s, he
took initiation
from Sri
Madhava Ashish
, a disciple of Sri
Krishna Prem
of the
Mirtola
ashram.
[
18
]
Political career
[
edit
]
In 1949, at age of eighteen, Singh was appointed as the Prince Regent of
Jammu and Kashmir
state after his father stepped down as the ruler, following the state's accession to India.
[
19
]
From that point, he served successively as regent, the
Sadr-i-Riyasat
, and the first governor of the state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1965 to 1967.
On 8 August 1953 as the President (
Sadr-i-Riyasat
) of Jammu and Kashmir, Karan Singh backed a
coup d'etat
against the elected Prime Minister
Sheikh Abdullah
,
[
citation needed
]
allegedly for harboring independent ambitions for Kashmir, which led to the imprisonment of Abdullah for eleven years following the
Kashmir Conspiracy Case
.
In 1967, he resigned as
Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
, and became the youngest-ever member of the Union Cabinet, holding the portfolios of Tourism and Civil Aviation between 1967 and 1973.
[
20
]
[
21
]
Two years later, he voluntarily surrendered his privy purse, which he had been entitled to since the death of his father in 1961. He placed the entire sum into a charitable trust named after his parents.
In the 26th amendment
[
22
]
to the
Constitution of India
promulgated in 1971, the Government of India, of which Karan Singh was a
Union cabinet
minister, abolished all official symbols of
princely India
, including titles, privileges, and remuneration (
privy purses
).
[
23
]
During the conclusion of the
Cold War
, he was India's ambassador to the
USA
. Singh received the
Padma Vibhushan
in 2005.
Karan Singh and President of India
Pratibha Patil
present the
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
to German Chancellor
Angela Merkel
at the
Presidential Palace
in New Delhi, India in 2009.
In 1971, he was sent as an envoy to the Eastern Bloc nations to explain India's position with regard to East Pakistan, then engaged in civil war with West Pakistan.
[
24
]
He attempted to resign following an aircraft crash in 1973, but the resignation was not accepted. The same year, he became the Minister for Health and Family planning, serving in this post until 1977.
Following the Emergency, Karan Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha from Udhampur in 1977 on a Congress ticket [the party had not split into Congress(I) and Congress(U) factions till then], and became Minister of Education and Culture in 1979 in Charan Singh's cabinet, representing Congress(U), which had split from Indira's Congress. Notably, Charan Singh became Prime Minister after the fall of Janata Party government headed by Morarji Desai. And Charan Singh himself resigned without facing Parliament even for a day as he was not sure of having a confidence motion passed in his favour. Karan Singh contested the 1980 Lok Sabha election on a Congress(U) ticket and won. In 1989–1990, he served as Indian Ambassador to the US, and this experience became the subject of a book he wrote, "Brief Sojourn".
[
25
]
From 1967 to 1984, Karan Singh was a member of the Lok Sabha. In 1984, he contested the Lok Sabha polls as an independent candidate from Jammu but lost the election. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 30 November 1996 to 12 August 1999, representing
National Conference
, a Muslim dominated party active in
Jammu and Kashmir
. Later, he was a
Rajya Sabha
member from 28 January 2000 to 27 January 2018 representing
INC
. He is known for switching his loyalties from one political party to another quite frequently. He has served as Chancellor of
Banaras Hindu University
, Jammu and Kashmir University,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
, and NIIT University.
[
26
]
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
addressing at the launch of a film -
I Believe Universal Values for a Global Society
, by
Raja Choudhury
based on the beliefs of Dr. Karan Singh in 2011.
Karan Singh, along with Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
and
Rahul Gandhi
present the
Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award
to K
iran Seth
in 2011.
Karan Singh meets Hillary Clinton along with Congress party President Sonia Gandhi, and Rahul Gandhi. July 2009
Later life
[
edit
]
Singh has been engaged by
Sansad TV
(a merged Global TV Channel of
Lok Sabha TV
and
Rajya Sabha TV
) as a Guest Anchor along with some other senior celebrated experts from diverse fields such as
Bibek Debroy
,
Amitabh Kant
,
Shashi Tharoor
,
Hemant Batra
,
Maroof Raza
and
Sanjeev Sanyal
to present some flagship programmes.
[
27
]
[
28
]
[
29
]
Election Contested
[
edit
]
Lok Sabha
[
edit
]
Rajya Sabha
[
edit
]
Position
Party
Constituency
From
To
Tenure
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
(1st Term)
JKNC
Jammu & Kashmir
30 November
1996
12 August
1999
2 years, 255 days
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
(2nd Term)
INC
N.C.T. Delhi
28 January
2000
27 January
2006
17 years, 364 days
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
(3rd Term)
28 January
2006
27 January
2012
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
(4th Term)
28 January
2012
27 January
2018
Academic career
[
edit
]
Karan Singh served as the chancellor of
Banaras Hindu University
for three terms up until 2018. In 2008, he awarded an honorary doctorate to the then prime minister
Manmohan Singh
,
[
30
]
and in 2016, he was asked by university administration to award an honorary doctorate to prime minister
Narendra Modi
, that the prime minister declined.
[
31
]
Honours and awards
[
edit
]
The Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University, Dr. Karan Singh presenting Honorary Doctorate Degree to the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, at the '90th Convocation Ceremony' in Varanasi on 15 March 2008
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
being welcomed by Dr. Karan Singh, on his arrival at the
Banaras Hindu University
, in
Varanasi
on February 22, 2016.
India
:
Padma Vibhushan
(2005).
Views
[
edit
]
On population
[
edit
]
"In 1974, I led the Indian delegation to the World Population Conference in Bucharest, where my statement that 'development is the best contraceptive' became widely known and oft quoted. I must admit that 20 years later I am inclined to reverse this, and my position now is that 'contraception is the best development'.”
[
32
]
Bibliography
[
edit
]
Towards A New India
(1974)
Population, Poverty and the Future of India
(1975)
One Man's World
(1986)
Essays on Hinduism
. Ratna Sagar. 1987.
ISBN
81-7070-173-2
.
Humanity at the Crossroads
, with
Daisaku Ikeda
. Oxford University Press, 1988.
Autobiography
(2 vols.)(1989)
Brief Sojourn
(1991)
Hymn to Shiva and Other Poems
(1991)
The Transition to a Global Society
(1991)
Mountain of Shiva
(1994)
Autobiography
. Oxford University Press, 1994.
ISBN
0-19-563636-8
.
Hinduism
. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 2005.
ISBN
1-84557-425-7
Mundaka Upanishad: The Bridge to Immortality
.
Ten Gurus of the Sikhs Their Life Story
, Tr. into English Pramila Naniwadekar & Moreshwar Naniwadekar.
Nehru's Kashmir
. Wisdom Tree.
ISBN
978-81-8328-160-7
.
A Treasury of Indian Wisdom
. Penguin Ananda, 2010.
ISBN
978-0-670-08450-0
.
An Examined Life
ed. Raghav Verma. Harper Collins, 2019.
ISBN
9353570239
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Instrument of Accession (Jammu and Kashmir)
to the
Dominion of India
List of topics on the land and the people of Jammu and Kashmir
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"PM releases Manuscript with commentaries by 21 scholars on shlokas of Srimad Bhagavadgita"
.
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2022
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"Working Group Report on Improving Heritage Management in India"
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Saraf, Nandini (2012).
The Life and Times of Lokmanya Tilak
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9788184301526
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Before leaving Srinagar he also had long talks with Yuvraj Karan Singh, who was then being pressed to become the Sadr-i-Riyasat - Head of State of the State.
^
"Karan Singh elected BHU chancellor for 3rd time"
.
The Times of India
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22 February
2020
.
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"Madan Mohan Malaviya's grandson next BHU chancellor"
.
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22 February
2020
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"I'm available for the top job: Karan Singh"
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Hindustan Times
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13 November
2021
.
^
"Ankit Love wants nomination of Dr Karan Singh & Bhim Singh for President and Vice President of India"
.
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2021
.
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"Bhim Singh pitches Dr Karan Singh as next President"
,
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2017
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"Propose Dr. Karan Singh as next President: Prof. Bhim"
.
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2017
.
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"Karan Singh recalls his French Connection"
.
NetIndian
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22 May
2021
.
^
"Rajya Sabha MP Karan Singh slams attempts to brand Hari Singh as communal"
. 28 January 2017.
^
"Dr. Karan Singh Profile"
. Doon School. Archived from
the original
on 18 September 2009.
^
"Jammu & Kashmir Dharmarth Trust - Maharani Yasho Rajya Lakshmi"
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the original
on 24 September 2010.
^
The Gwalior Royal Wedding
Event covered in India Today
^
"Unlike Father, son"
.
The Week
.
^
Chapple, Jon (2024).
Sri Krishna Prem: A wing and a Prayer
. Kirksville, Missouri: Blazing Sapphire Press. p. 140.
ISBN
9781952232886
.
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Dr. Karan Singh
Raj Bhawan, Jammu and Kashmir official website.
^
"COUNCIL OF MINISTERS: GANDHI 2"
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the original
on 27 September 2020
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10 March
2018
.
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"COUNCIL OF MINISTERS: GANDHI 3"
. kolumbus.fi. Archived from
the original
on 18 August 2021
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10 March
2018
.
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"The Constitution (26 Amendment) Act, 1971"
,
indiacode.nic.in
, Government of India, 1971
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9 November
2011
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Ramusack, Barbara N.
(2004).
The Indian princes and their states
. Cambridge University Press. p. 278.
ISBN
978-0-521-26727-4
.
, "Through a constitutional amendment passed in 1971, Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of the
titles
, privy purses and regal privileges which her father's government had granted." (p 278).
2.
Naipaul, V. S.
(2003),
India: A Wounded Civilization
, Random House Digital, Inc., p. 37,
ISBN
978-1-4000-3075-0
Quote: "The princes of India – their number and variety reflecting to a large extent the chaos that had come to the country with the break up of the Mughal empire – had lost real power in the British time. Through generations of idle servitude they had grown to specialize only in style. A bogus, extinguishable glamour: in 1947, with Independence, they had lost their state, and Mrs. Gandhi in 1971 had, without much public outcry, abolished their privy purses and
titles
." (pp 37–38).
3.
Schmidt, Karl J. (1995),
An atlas and survey of South Asian history
, M.E. Sharpe, p. 78,
ISBN
978-1-56324-334-9
Quote: "Although the Indian states were alternately requested or forced into union with either India or Pakistan, the real death of princely India came when the Twenty-sixth Amendment Act (1971) abolished the princes'
titles
, privileges, and privy purses." (page 78).
4.
Breckenridge, Carol Appadurai
(1995),
Consuming modernity: public culture in a South Asian world
, U of Minnesota Press, p. 84,
ISBN
978-0-8166-2306-8
Quote: "The third stage in the political evolution of the princes from rulers to citizens occurred in 1971, when the constitution ceased to recognize them as princes and their privy purses,
titles
, and special privileges were abolished." (page 84).
5.
Guha, Ramachandra
(2008),
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
, HarperCollins, p. 441,
ISBN
978-0-06-095858-9
Quote: "Her success at the polls emboldened Mrs. Gandhi to act decisively against the princes. Through 1971, the two sides tried and failed to find a settlement. The princes were willing to forgo their privy purses, but hoped at least to save their titles. But with her overwhelming majority in Parliament, the prime minister had no need to compromise. On 2 December, she introduced a bill to amend the constitution and abolish all princely privileges. It was passed in the Lok Sabha by 381 votes to six, and in the Rajya Sabha by 167 votes to seven. In her own speech, the prime minister invited 'the princes to join the elite of the modern age, the elite which earns respect by its talent, energy and contribution to human progress, all of which can only be done when we work together as equals without regarding anybody as of special status.' " (page 441).
6.
Cheesman, David (1997).
Landlord power and rural indebtedness in colonial Sind, 1865–1901
. London: Routledge. p. 10.
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.
Quote: "The Indian princes survived the British Raj by only a few years. The Indian republic stripped them of their powers and then their
titles
." (page 10).
7.
Merriam-Webster, Inc (1997),
Merriam-Webster's geographical dictionary
, Merriam-Webster, p. 520,
ISBN
978-0-87779-546-9
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Indian States
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8.
Ward, Philip (September 1989),
Northern India, Rajasthan, Agra, Delhi: a travel guide
, Pelican Publishing, p. 91,
ISBN
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titles
all abolished at a stroke" (page 91)
^
"Dr. Karan Singh"
.
^
Karan echoes Omar, but ‘J&K part of India’
, Arun Sharma, Jammu, Sat 23 October 2010, The Indian Express Limited
^
"NIIT University: Best University in India for B Tech, Integrated MBA, Ph. D Courses"
.
niituniversity.in
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"All set for Sansad TV launch; Karan Singh, Tharoor, Kant, Sanyal to host special shows"
.
Tribune India
.
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"PM Narendra Modi to launch Sansad TV on September 15: Report"
.
Business Standard India
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"PM Modi to launch Sansad TV on September 15, say sources"
.
The Times of India
. 10 September 2021.
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.
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2020
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"Take pride in India's heritage, culture: PM Modi at BHU convocation ceremony"
.
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2020
.
^
"Quotations"
.
populationmatters.org
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on 3 July 2015
. Retrieved
3 July
2014
.
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Karan Singh (2019). Raghav Verma (ed.).
EXAMINED LIFE : essays and reflections by karan singh
. [S.l.]: HARPERCOLLINS INDIA.
ISBN
978-93-5357-023-1
.
OCLC
1100771553
.
^
"An Examined Life"
.
HarperCollins Publishers India
. Retrieved
14 June
2020
.
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Proclamation of May 1, 1951 on Jammu & Kashmir Constituent Assembly by Yuvraj (Crown Prince) Karan Singh from the Official website of Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India
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