Rabindrah Ghurburrun Explained

Rabindranath Ghurburrun
Honorific-Suffix:GOSK
Order:1st Vice President of Mauritius
President:Cassam Uteem
Term Start:1 July 1992
Term End:30 June 1997
Predecessor:Office established
Successor:Angidi Chettiar

Sir Rabindrah Ghurburrun (1928–2008) was the first Vice President of Mauritius from 1992 to 1997.[1] 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.[2]

A lawyer by profession, he did a diploma at the University of Oxford.[3] 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[4]

He died at the age of 79 in Paris.[5]

Notes and References

  1. News: Former Vice Presidents. Vice President website. 23 November 2019. dmy-all.
  2. Web site: Banners . 2008-10-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110721195138/http://www.defimedia.info/blogs/287/Ghurburrun--le-sens-dun-combat.html . 2011-07-21 .
  3. Web site: Attention aux faux guides au Jardin de Pamplemousses ! . https://archive.today/20110721195517/http://www.defimedia.info/articles/1819/1/Sir-Robin-is-no-more/Page1.html . 21 July 2011 . dead.
  4. Web site: Banners . 2008-10-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110721195138/http://www.defimedia.info/blogs/287/Ghurburrun--le-sens-dun-combat.html . 2011-07-21 .
  5. http://www.lemauricien.org/weekend/080427/so.htm#27 Obituary