2005-11-10 04:00:00 PDT New Delhi-- Kocheril Raman Narayanan, India's first Dalit, or "untouchable," president, died in a military hospital here Wednesday evening, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.

The life of K.R. Narayanan suggests an answer to the puzzle. He was born at the very bottom, into the group of “out-castes” once called “untouchable” and now known as dalits. Yet he rose ...

Following his stint in journalism, Narayanan went to England in 1945 and studied political science under the famous Harold Laski at the London School of Economics. He was awarded a B.Sc.

Kocheril Raman Narayanan was born in October 1920 - some reports say 1921 - in Kottayam, in the south-western state of Kerala. His father was a traditional healer and the young Narayanan thrived in ...

The ruling United Front alliance and its main ally, the Congress party, Monday threw their weight behind Vice President Kocheril Raman Narayanan to be elected as the nation’s first low-caste ...

And from their ranks comes our 12th president, Kocheril Raman Narayanan. They were the youth of the 1930s and 1940s, the first Nehruvians, animated by principles of anti-fascism and the welfare ...

Kocheril Raman Narayanan, India?s first Dalit, or ?untouchable,? president, died in a military hospital here on Wednesday evening, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. He was 85, according to the ...

Former Indian president Kocheril Raman Narayanan died in an army hospital on Wednesday, after being admitted almost two weeks ago with acute pneumonia, the Press Trust of India news agency said ...

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After working at University College, Trivandrum, as a lecturer for a while, Narayanan was denied a permanent lectureship and offered a clerical post instead. He refused to accept his degree in ...

But, despite his obvious distaste for their methods, Narayanan was meticulously fair in all his dealings with them, never letting his biases show. Kocheril Raman Narayanan was born in 1920 in a ...