Sir Rabindranath Ghurburrun (b. 1928, d. 2008) was the Vice President

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 of Mauritius

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 from 1992 to 1997. He started his political career as a member of the Mauritius Labour Party. However, he was appointed by the Mauritian Militant Movement

Mauritian Militant Movement

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-Militant Socialist Movement

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 coalition government as Vice President while the Labour Party was in the opposition.

A lawyer by profession, he studied at the University of Oxford

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. He was also the first High Commissioner

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 of Mauritius to India

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. Then Prime Minister

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 Indira Gandhi

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 described him as behaving like the last Maharaja

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 of India

He died at the age of 79 in Paris

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