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Shankar village is located in Nakodar tehsil of Jalandhar district in Punjab, India. It is situated 6km away from sub-district headquarter Nakodar (tehsildar office) and 30km away from district headquarter Jalandhar. As per 2009 stats, Shanker is the gram panchayat of Shankar village.
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The Punjab Province was a province of British India. Most of the Punjab region was annexed by the British East India Company on 29 March 1849 ; it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British control.
Shankar is a village in the Nakodar tehsil of Jalandhar district in Punjab, India. [1][2] About. Shankar is a large village that lies on the Nakodar - Jandiala Road. The nearest railway station to this village is Shankar Railway Station, about 2 km from the village. Shankar is one of the oldest villages in the state of Punjab. [citation needed]
- Early Life
- Political Career
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Swaran Singh Purewal was born on 19 August 1907 in Shankar (village) in Jalandhar district of Punjab. He was born in Jat (Sikh) family.He completed his intermediate (High school) at Randhir College in Kapurthala. He then joined Government College, Lahore and completed a degree in Physics with honors.[citation needed] He then worked as a lecturer in...
The early days
In 1930s he joined the Akali Dal political party and by the mid forties he was a prominent leader in the mid-1940s. He played an important role in the compromise between the Indian national congress party and the Akali Dal in the early 1940s.[citation needed] Just before the 1946 elections, the Panthic Party was formed with Baldev Singh as the leader and Singh was elected its deputy leader. In 1946 he was elected a member of the Punjab legislative assembly. He then became parliamentary secret...
In the central government
He entered the cabinet of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in 1952, and was that government's last surviving member. He spent 23 years of his life as a high ranking Cabinet Minister in the Government of India. He had a reputation for being an effective debater and negotiator. "His debates at the UN Security Council on Bangladesh's cause, when East Pakistan liberation war (1971) was in full swing, were impressive," attests Former Indian ambassador to the United Nations, Narendra...
Cabinet positions
To this date he is the longest-serving union cabinet minister in India.[citation needed] Babu Jajgivan Ram holds the record for maximum duration as cabinet minister i.e. around 30 years, but the record for consistent and uninterrupted membership of the cabinet in continuation is held by Mr. Swaran Singh.[citation needed] He is best known for his role as India's external affairs minister.[citation needed] He was also president of the National Congress in 1969, and 1978.[citation needed]
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Aug 25, 2024 · The Punjab Province was a province of British India. Most of the Punjab region was annexed by the British East India Company on 29 March 1849; it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British control.
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Punjab was a province of British India, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British rule. With the end of British rule in 1947 the province was split between India and Pakistan.
