
India’s seventh prime minister, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, who championed the cause of backward castes, was born in a landlord’s family on June 25, 1931, in Allahabad (now in Uttar Pradesh). He died on November 27, 2008, after suffering from multiple ailments for several years. In 1936, he was adopted by Raja Bahadur Ram Gopal Singh of Manda; after Ram Gopal’s... Read More →