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...Worked as an economics adviser to Indian Prime Ministers in the 1970s and later held a series of economic posts with the Indian government, including governor of the Reserve Bank of India from...
...Credited with reforming India during his five years as Finance Minister from 1991 to 1996, rescuing the country from the brink of economic collapse by lowering taxes, devaluing the rupee, privatizing state-run industries and instituting foreign investments...
...Took over as Prime Minister in 2004 after India's Congress Party, led by Sonia Gandhi - the Italian-born widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi - took power in landslide elections. Singh is the first non-Hindu to hold the position...
Fast Facts: • Born in a village in undivided India's Punjab province on Sept...
...follower of Sikhism, a South Asian religion distinct from Islam or Hinduism. There are about 25 million Sikhs worldwide, most of them in India...