Kunwar Inderjit Singh

Kunwar Inderjit Singh (Nepali: कुवंर इन्द्रजीत सिंह 1906 – 4 October 1982) was Prime Minister of Nepal for four months in 1957[1]. He was known as the 'Robin Hood of the Himalayas' after initiating an extensive land redistribution scheme in the early 1950s[2]. He was a member of the Nepali Congress. In 1981, he joined the breakaway Nepali Congress (Subarna).

He is also the first known Doctor of Nepal known as Dr K.I. Singh

Notes

  1. ^ "Kunwar Inderjit Singh, Former Nepal Premier". The New York Times. 1982-10-06. http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/06/obituaries/kunwar-inderjit-singh-former-nepal-premier.html. Retrieved 2009-04-08. 
  2. ^ "Robin Hood of the Himalayas". TIME. 1957-09-05. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867789-1,00.html. Retrieved 2009-04-09.