Rabindrah Ghurburrun
Rabindranath Ghurburrun | |
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| Vice President of Mauritius | |
| In office 30 June 1992 – 1 July 1997 | |
| President | Cassam Uteem |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Angidi Chettiar |
Sir Rabindrah Ghurburrun (1928–2008) was the Vice President of Mauritius from 1992 to 1997. He started his political career as a member of the Mauritius Labour Party. However, he was appointed by the Mauritian Militant Movement-Militant Socialist Movement coalition government as Vice President while the Labour Party was in the opposition.[1]
A lawyer by profession, he did a diploma at the University of Oxford.[2] He was also the first High Commissioner of Mauritius to India. Then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi described him as behaving like the last Maharaja of India[3]
He died at the age of 79 in Paris.[4]
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