Gursharan Kaur is the wife of the 13th and current Prime Minister of India

Prime Minister of India

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, Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh is the 13th and current Prime Minister of India. He is the only Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term. A Sikh, he is the first non-Hindu to occupy the office. Singh is also the 7th Prime Minister belonging to the Indian...

. Gurusharan was born to Sardar Chattar Singh Kohli, an employee of Burmah-Shell, and Sardarni Bhagwanti Kaur in 1937 in Pakistan. Her ancestral village was Dhakkam, near Chakwal in Pakistan. She has four sisters and a younger brother.She was educated in Guru Nanak Kanya Pathshala, the Government College for Women in Patiala, and Khalsa College, Amritsar

Khalsa College, Amritsar

Khalsa College is a historic educational institution in the northern Indian city of Amritsar in the state of Punjab, India. Founded in 1892, the sprawling campus is located about eight km outside of the city center on the Amritsar-Lahore highway , adjoining Guru Nanak Dev University campus, to...

. She married Dr. Manmohan Singh in 1958.

Mrs. Singh is known in the Sikh community of Delhi

Delhi

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 for her kirtan

Kirtan

Kirtan or Kirtana is call-and-response chanting or "responsory" performed in India's devotional traditions. A person performing kirtan is known as a kirtankar. Kirtan practice involves chanting hymns or mantras to the accompaniment of instruments such as the harmonium, tablas, the two-headed...

singing, and has also appeared on Jalandhar Radio.

Since her husband became Prime Minister in 2004, she has accompanied him abroad on state visits. However, the family has largely stayed out of the limelight. Their three daughters - Upinder, Daman and Amrit, have successful, non-political, careers. Upinder Singh

Upinder Singh

Upinder Singh is an author and professor in the history department at the University of Delhi. She is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of Social Sciences .- Books :...

 is a professor of history at Delhi University. She has written six books, including Ancient Delhi (1999) and A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India (2008). Daman Singh is a graduate of St. Stephen's College

St. Stephen's College, Delhi

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, Delhi and Institute of Rural Management, Anand, Gujarat, and author of The Last Frontier: People and Forests in Mizoram and a novel Nine by Nine. Amrit Singh

Amrit Singh

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 is a staff attorney at the ACLU

American Civil Liberties Union

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