Talk:A. N. R. Robinson
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This information comes from rulers - yet it seems to have made his President and Prime Minister at the same time. Secretlondon 19:57, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I moved this page from A.N.R. Robinson to A. N. R. Robinson in keeping with Wikipedia naming policy. Guettarda 17:00, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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The merging of two political parties:
In 1981 Robinson joined forces with the United Labour Front (ULF) under the leadership of Basdeo Panday and the Tapia House Movement under the leadership of Lloyd Best to form the National Alliance. This group entered an Accommodation with the Organisation for National Reconstruction under the leadership of Karl Hudson-Phillips to fight (and win) the Local Government elections of 1983. Building on this victory the four parties combined to form the National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR) which won the 1986 elections by a margin of 33-3 and Robinson was appointed the first non-PNM Prime Minister.
The unification of these parties was complicated and was a very idealistic time in Trinidad politics. The ANR was a multiracial party, consisting of the amalgamation of parties from the 1981 general elections as follows:Hudson-Phillips resigned from the PNM in 1973 when Prime Minister Eric Williams reversed his decision to resign from politics. Hudson-Phillips had been the main contender to succeed Williams - once Williams returned there was no longer room for a person who had openly expressed an interest in leading the party. Hudson-Phillips went on to form the 'National Land Tenants and Ratepayers Association of Trinidad and Tobago in 1974, a right-of-centre body. After building a support base among the middle and upper classes, he launched the ONR in 1980. In the 1981 General Elections the ONR won 22.1% of the vote (the second largest vote tally), but failed to win a single seat. This led to the ONR forging a closer relationship with the other Opposition groups, which had themselves joined together under the banner of the National Alliance to fight the 1981 elections.
One man is credited with undertaking the task of amalgamating these parties Dr.Robert Maharaj, a prominent medical doctor of San Fernando, who later emigrated to Ireland with his wife and two children. Dr. Robert Maharaj of Princes Town and later of St.Joseph Village, San Fernando is close relative of Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj. Dr. Robert Maharaj's grandfather and Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj's father were brothers of the same Maharaj family. Maharaj is an Indian noble and Hindu religious title. The term denotes separate noble and religious offices, although the fact that in Hindi the suffix 'a' in Maharaja is silent makes the two titles homonyms.
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[edit] Noble Maharaj can designate a male prince of the blood of a ruling dynasty when the patriarch of that dynasty is styled Maharaja (i.e. "Great King" or "High King") or some variation thereof (e.g. Maharao). In this context, the noble title Maharaj does not vary with the patriarch's precise sovereign title, with which it should not be confused.
Maharaj can also occur in compound noble titles, where it may stand for the ruler, e.g. Maharajkumar.
In Jodhpur, Rajasthan, until the reign of Maharaja Umaid Singhji, the noble title Maharaj was inherited by all legitimate male desendents in the male line of the Maharaja, for three generations. This was then extended to seven generations, in conformity with Rajput marriage customs. The son of a noble Rajput Maharaj is styled Rajkumar during his father's lifetime, and Maharaj after his father's death. Descendants beyond the seventh generation inherit the lower title of Thakur through the eldest son, and the title of Kumar Shri through the younger sons.
[edit] Religious Maharaj is a title of Hindu princes of the faith and other senior religious figures. In this context, the domain of a Maharaj is typically referred to as a Brahmanical See.
In cases where religious titles are passed dynastically or proto-dynastically, all legitimate descendants of the prince of the faith may hold the surname Maharaj, but only the patriarch himself is entitled to employ Maharaj as a title. In such cases, although the title is invariably passed through the male line within a house (extended family), it may not necessarily pass from father to son.
Maharaji it is also a respectful way of addressing religious scholars. [1]
Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, a human rights lawyer, and former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago, is the leader of National Team Unity, a political party in Trinidad and Tobago.
Maharaj made his name as a human rights lawyer in the 1980s; his most notorious clients were the Jamaat al Muslimeen. Maharaj joined the United National Congress in 1991. He won election to Parliament representing the Couva South Constituency. When the UNC won the elections in 1995, Maharaj became Attorney General after distancing himself from controversial clients.
In 1999, his daughter Kavita Mahraj had changed her name to Kavita Maharaj Spencer-Morgan after migrating to London.
In 2001 the slate of candidates endorsed by Maharaj (Team Unity) won the party elections. However they failed to win the endorsement of the Party leader, Prime Minister Basdeo Panday. The estrangement escalated and Maharaj eventually left the party, together with Trevor Sudama and Ralph Maraj. This defection cost the UNC its parliamentary majority, lead to General Elections being called in 2001, and eventually led to the election victory of the People's National Movement in 2002.
Maharaj converted Team Unity into a national political party, National Team Unity, but the party failed to make an impact on the electoral landscape in either 2001 or 2002, and since then has functioned more as a political pressure group.
As of February 2007, the Daltons Law firm, headed by Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj's wife, Lynnette, and through Khemrajh Harrikissoon, sue Basdeo Panday for damages concerning statements which, as claimed by the firm, were defamatory.
Dr. Robert Maharaj was known as the oracle for his skill in predicting the outcome of elections. He was formerly of the ONR; In the 1981 General Elections the ONR won 22.1% of the vote (the second largest vote tally), but failed to win a single seat. In this election Dr.Maharaj fought the Princes town seat. He worked tirelessly from 1982-1986 in amalgamating the ONR with other opposition groups, the result was the NAR, headed by Arthur Napoleon Robinson. Dr.Robert Maharaj is credited with the majority of the effort for this successful unification of opposing political parties.
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Dr.Robert Maharaj was born in 1946 in Princes Town, Trinidad, West Indies. He was left as the patriarch of the family when his father Rampergas Maharaj died suddenly when he was 12. He studied medicine at The Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin,Ireland and returned to Trinidad thereafter to practice in Princess Town, and soon after in San Fernando. He returns to Trinidad regularly and still maintains and interest in Trinidad politics.
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Dr. Robert Maharaj-Maharaj family Princes Town, had 1 brother and 2 sisters, the eldest sister was married to a relative of Dr. Rudranath Capildeo (February 2, 1920 – May 12, 1970) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician and mathematician. He was the Leader of the Democratic Labour Party from 1960–1969 and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament from 1961–1963. He was also a faculty member at the University of London, eventually holding the position of Reader of Mathematics. He was also the younger brother of Simbhoonath Capildeo and uncle of Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul and of Shiva Naipaul. He was awarded the Trinity Cross (the nation's highest award) in 1969.
Capildeo was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, the youngest child of the prominent Capildeo family. He was educated at Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain where he won an island scholarship in 1938. He attended the University of London where he obtained his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics in 1943, his M.Sc. in Mathematics in 1945 and his Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics in 1948, thesis title: The flexure problem in elasticity.
Capildeo held lecturships at the University of London, the University College London and at Westfield College. He also taught briefly at Queen's Royal College (1945) and was Principal of the Polytechnic Institute in Port of Spain in 1959.
While Capildeo was a man of undoubted intelligence, his entry into politics in the late 1950s was due to the fact that the political figures who entered the DLP in 1957 did not trust each other, and could only agree on him.
His political career was unusual, since he was active only during election campaigns (in 1961 and 1967) and during the summer months. His conduct of the last pre-independence electoral campaign, in 1961, was also unusual, beginning with his declaration that because he understood Einstein he could "compress the time" necessary to undo what the sitting government had done. He acquired the nickname of "the mad scientist" because of his pledge to build a tunnel under the Northern Range in order to shorten the distance from Port of Spain to the nearest beach.
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