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Charan Singh

Chaudhary Charan Singh

1902–1987

Also known as: Chaudhary Charan Singh, के. चरणसिंह, चौधरी चरण सिंह, चरण सिंह, के. चरण सिंह

How Charan Singh is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 4 other works — including Industrial Relations , अंगारमळा , and Agricultural Policy of Swatantra Party .

In अंगारमळा : Charan Singh appears in the publisher's foreword as the subject of one of the four biographical portraits added to the 2015 expanded edition, signalling Joshi's intellectual lineage to the agrarian-politics tradition of the former prime minister.

In Industrial Relations : Charan Singh's June 1979 note against extending bonus to railwaymen is reproduced in the appendix and used to anchor the employer-side case that bonus has become a statutory privilege of an organised minority at huge fiscal cost.

In Agricultural Policy of Swatantra Party : Charan Singh is cited as the Congress Minister who resigned office rather than support the Nagpur cooperative-farming resolution, illustrating that resistance crossed party lines.

In THE DANGERS OF JOINT CO-OPERATIVE FARMING : Charan Singh, a Congress member with unrivalled expertise on agrarian policy, is quoted to show that opposition to cooperative farming crossed party lines.

Mentioned in (4)

Primary works (2)

  • अंगारमळा · 2008
    • "The publisher's foreword by Shrikant Umariker notes that the book received Maharashtra government recognition for outstanding literary creation and that the second edition adds four new essays, including biographical portraits of former Prime Minister Charan Singh, Shetkari Sanghatana leaders Anil Gote and Ramchandrabapu Patil, and a history of the Vakari weekly itself." — Charan Singh is identified as the subject of one of the four new biographical essays in the expanded edition
  • Industrial Relations · 1979
    • "a note from the then Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Charan Singh, addressed to Prime Minister Morarji Desai, opposing the grant of bonus to railwaymen and other employees of Government departmental undertakings" — introduces the appendix and Charan Singh's argumentative role
    • "Charan Singh argues that extending bonus to railwaymen would obligate it for all Central Government employees at an annual cost of about Rs.600 crores against a deficit budget of Rs.1,345 crores for 1979-80" — summarises the fiscal core of his case

Excerpts (2)

  • Agricultural Policy of Swatantra Party
    • "Congress Ministers like Sri Charan Singh of the U.P. (who has had to resign office on account of his bold opposition in Nagpur)" — Charan Singh's principled resignation is held up as evidence of broad-based opposition to the Congress agricultural programme
  • THE DANGERS OF JOINT CO-OPERATIVE FARMING
    • "Mr. Charan Singh, who is a member and leading light of the Congress Party, has made a lifelong study of this subject much better than anybody else." — Masani invokes a Congress insider's expertise to bolster his case against cooperative farming