Rabindranath Ghurburrun

First Vice President of Mauritius
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IntroFirst Vice President of Mauritius
PlacesMauritius
wasDiplomat
Work fieldPolitics
Gender
Male
Birth1928
Death2008 (aged 80 years)
Education
Keble College
University of Oxford
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Biography

Sir Rabindrah Ghurburrun (Tamil: சர் ரவீந்திர குருபரன்) (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.

A lawyer by profession, he did a diploma at the University of Oxford. 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

He died at the age of 79 in Paris.

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