President Cassam Uteem Role Political figure Preceded by Office established Died 2008 | Succeeded by Angidi Chettiar Education University of Oxford Name Rabindrah Ghurburrun Resigned July 1, 1997 | |
Sir Rabindrah Ghurburrun (1928–2008) was the Vice President of Mauritius 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-Militant Socialist Movement coalition government as Vice President while the Labour Party was in the opposition.
A lawyer by profession, he did a diploma at the University of Oxford. He was also the first High Commissioner of Mauritius to India. Then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi described him as behaving like the last Maharaja of India
He died at the age of 79 in Paris.
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