Rajmohan Gandhi

Rajmohan Gandhi
Gandhi in 1960
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha[1]
In office
1990-92
ConstituencyUttar Pradesh
Personal details
Born (1935-08-07) 7 August 1935 (age 89)[2]
New Delhi, British India
Political partyAam Aadmi Party
Other political
affiliations		Janata Dal
SpouseUsha Gandhi
Children2
Parent(s)Devdas Gandhi
Lakshmi (née Rajagopalachari) Gandhi
RelativesMahatma Gandhi (grandfather)
Kasturba Gandhi (grandmother)
OccupationBiographer, journalist, politician
AwardsInternational Humanitarian Award (human rights)
WebsiteOfficial website

Rajmohan Gandhi (born 7 August 1935)[2] is an Indian biographer, historian, politician and research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US. His paternal grandfather is Mahatma Gandhi, and his maternal grandfather is Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari. He is also a scholar in residence at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.

In 1989, he joined Janata Dal and unsuccessfully contested against Rajiv Gandhi.[3] In 2014, he joined the Aam Aadmi Party.[4] He contested from the East Delhi constituency and lost.[5]

  1. ^ "Rajya Sabha members biographical sketches 1952 - 2003" (PDF). Rajya Sabha. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Professor Rajmohan Gandhi". Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
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