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Mahajan
Mahajan is an Indian surname.This is title for Vaishya Comunitiy. It signifies the profession of a moneylender or merchants,bankers and administrators. In the caste system, Mahajan is a trader who belongs to the Vaishya varna and the last name may be found in that caste. Notable people Notable people with this surname include: * Ashwani Mahajan, economist, National Co-Convener, Swadeshi Jagran Manch; Professor at PG DAV College * Harsh Mahajan, Indian politician * Mehr Chand Mahajan, former Chief Justice of India and former Prime Minister of Kashmir * Pramod Mahajan, an Indian politician (Maharashtra State) * Rahul Mahajan, an American blogger * Rahul Mahajan, Indian reality TV personality * Sumitra Mahajan, an Indian politician Who is the speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha * Vijay Mahajan, former Dean of the Indian School of Business, a Marketing professor at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin * Vikram Chand Mahajan, an Indian politician, Senior Advoca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pramod Mahajan
Pramod Vyankatesh Mahajan (30 October 1949 – 3 May 2006) was an Indian politician from Maharashtra. A second-generation leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he belonged to a group of relatively young "technocratic" leaders. At the time of his death, he was in a power struggle for the leadership of the BJP, given the imminent retirement of its aging top brass. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha and a General Secretary of his party. He contested only two Lok Sabha elections from Mumbai – North East constituency. He won in 1996 but lost in 1998. As Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's telecommunications minister between 2001 and 2003, he played a major role in India's cellular revolution. He was widely seen as a successful Parliamentary Affairs minister due to his good relations with members of political parties across the ideological spectrum. On 22 April 2006, he was shot by his brother Pravin Mahajan over a family dispute. He succumbed to his injury 13 days later. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahul Mahajan
Rahul Pramod Mahajan (born 25 July 1975) is an Indian reality show entertainer and former pilot. He is the son of former union cabinet minister Pramod Mahajan. He appeared as a contestant on reality shows like ''Bigg Boss 2'' , ''Bigg Boss Halla Bol'' and '' Bigg Boss 14''. Career Rahul participated in ''Bigg Boss 2'' in 2008. He was the finalist of the season. But a couple of days before the Grand Finale, Rahul Mahajan, Raja Chaudhary, Ashutosh Kaushik and Zulfi Syed climbed the wall to get out of the house. Mahajan has participated in ''Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayega'', the reality show sequel of '' Rakhi Ka Swayamwar''. This show was a swayamvar for Rahul Mahajan, where 17 girls were participating including his would-be bride. Rahul Mahajan married Dimpy Mahajan (née Ganguly), a 25-year-old Bengali model and actress on 6 March 2010. As the previous version of the show ('' Rakhi Ka Swayamwar'') did not culminate in a marriage, the marriage of Dimpy with Rahul was the first one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumitra Mahajan
Sumitra Mahajan ( ''née'' Sathe; born: 12 April 1943) is an Indian politician who was the Speaker of Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament from 2014 to 2019. She belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party. She represented the Indore constituency of Madhya Pradesh from 1989 to 2019 as the longest serving Woman Member of Parliament, She also served for as a Union Minister of State from 1999 to 2004, holding the portfolios for Human Resource Development, Communications and Information Technology and Petroleum and Natural Gas. She also held position of Chairperson of Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment (2004-2009) and Standing Committee on Rural Development (2009-2014). She was the eldest and seniormost among woman Members of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha. She is the second woman after Meira Kumar to be elected as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. She was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2021. Early life and education Sumitra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Mahajan (academic)
Vijay Mahajan is the John P. Harbin Centennial Chair in Business at McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He was born on April 5, 1948 in Jammu, India. He is known for his work on marketing strategy, international marketing and innovation. He was the dean of the Indian School of Business from 2002-2004 and is a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Marketing Research. Books *Mahajan, Vijay, and Kamini Banga. The 86 percent solution: How to succeed in the biggest market opportunity of the next 50 years. Pearson Education, 2005. *Vijay Mahajan. 2009. Africa Rising. Wharton School Publishing. *Vijay Mahajan. 2012. The Arab World Unbound: Tapping Into The Power of 350 Million Consumers. Wiley, Jossey, Bass. *Vijay Mahajan and Yoram Wind, eds. 1986. Innovation Diffusion Models of New Product Acceptance. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Co. Selected publications *Chitturi, Ravindra, Rajagopal Raghunathan, and Vijay Mahajan. "Delight by design: The role of hed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehr Chand Mahajan
Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan (1889–1967) was the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. Prior to that he was the Prime Minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir during the reign of Maharaja Hari Singh and played a key role in the accession of the state to India. He was the Indian National Congress nominee on the Radcliffe Commission that defined the boundaries of India and Pakistan. Justice Mahajan made his name as an accomplished lawyer, a respected judge, and an influential politician. As a judge he was incisive and forthright and had many leading judgements to his credit. Early life Mehr Chand Mahajan was born on 23 December 1889 at Tika Nagrota in the Kangra district of Punjab, British India (now In Himachal Pradesh). His father, Lala Brij Lal, was an advocate, who later established a reputed legal practice at Dharmsala.Ravi RohmetraMehr Chand Mahajan as PM of J&K Daily Excelsior, 23 December 2016. After completing middle school, Mahajan went to study in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girish Mahajan
Girish Dattatray Mahajan is a politician from Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. He is current MLA of Jamner. He is currently Cabinet Minister for Medical Education, Rural Development & Panchayat Raj Department, Sports and Youth Welfare and was minister of water resources, Medical education and minister for irrigation of Maharashtra state in Fadnavis's cabinet . Girish Mahajan is a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the Jamner (Vidhan Sabha constituency), serving his sixth consecutive term. Early life Mahajan was born in Jamner into a Marathi Gurjar family. Career As a college student, Mahajan was an active member of ABVP in 1978. In the ABVP, he started as a grassroots worker where he painted walls and distributed promotional posters for politicians. He was appointed Taluka President of ABVP. Mahajan's political career commenced in earnest in the early eighties, when he became Taluka President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (youth wing of the BJP) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwani Mahajan
Dr Ashwani Mahajan is the National Co-Convener of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM), an Indian political and cultural organisation. SJM is affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh. Biography Mahajan worked as an author and columnist. He is Professor at PGDAV College, Delhi. Mahajan is Chief Editor of ''Journal of Contemporary Indian Polity and Economy'' since 2011. Mahajan is also a visiting professor and research guide at Pacific University, Udaipur and Mewar University. He works as a researcher and activist on World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international trade agreements, he has attended four ministerial conferences of WTO held at Geneva, Bali, Nairobi and Buenos Aires, as representative of Swadeshi Jagran Foundation, which is an accredited NGO with WTO. Author Mahajan is a writer on the economy of India. In 2014, he co-authored ''Datt & Sundaram's Indian Economy''. Mahajan has published a number of articles in various national dailies and periodicals including D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harsh Mahajan
Harsh Mahajan(ex- Animal Husbandry minister of Himachal Pradesh), son of a former Vidhan Sabha Speaker and Cabinet Minister Des Raj Mahajan and was born at Chamba on 12 December 1955. He has a B. Com. and MBA. He studied at Sriram College of Commerce, New Delhi and at Delhi University, New Delhi. He married Uma Singh on 7 June 1983. He was the President of ''State Youth Congress'' from 1986 to 1995. He got elected to the State Legislative Assembly first in November 1993 and again in 1998 and 2003. He has been the ''Parliamentary Secretary'' from 1994 to 1998 and has served as Animal Husbandry Minister (at the Cabinet level). He is also a native speaker of English and Hindi. On 28 September 2022, Himachal Pradesh state Congress working president and former cabinet minister Harsh Mahajan joined Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahul Mahajan (blogger)
Rahul Mahajan is an American blogger, author, and educator. He has written two books and has had articles published in a wide range of newspapers including USA Today, Newsday, the Baltimore Sun, the Dallas Morning News. He currently serves on the Administrative Committee of anti-war coalition United for Peace and Justice, the Board of Directors of Peace Action, and the advisory board of website Occupation watch. In 2002 he was named "Best International Activist" by the ''Austin Chronicle'' in their annual "Best of Austin" list, and during the same year ran as the Green Party candidate for governor of Texas. Bibliography * ''The New Crusade'' (2002) * ''Full Spectrum Dominance'' (2003) Opposition to Kissinger speech at University of Texas He was a well known opponent to sending invite to Henry Kissinger's to make speech at the University of Texas. This became an issue during his Green Party run for governor of Texas.Austin Chronicle, Columns, "Postmarks", 09-13-2002, Austin Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikram Chand Mahajan
Vikram Chand Mahajan (27 March 1933 – 11 August 2016) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress. He was the son of Mehr Chand Mahajan Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan (1889–1967) was the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. Prior to that he was the Prime Minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir during the reign of Maharaja Hari Singh and played a key role in the ... a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. References External linksOfficial biographical sketch in Parliament of India website 1933 births 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |