Morarji Desai was an Indian independence activist and politician who was born into a Brahmin family in Gujarat. He served as the fourth Prime Minister of India from 1977 to 1979 and led the first ...

Morarji Desai joined the freedom struggle under Mahatma Gandhi with civil disobedience movement against the British rule. Morarji Desai served as the 4th Prime Minister of India between 1977 and 1979.

Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan secretly met with Indian leaders Desai and Vajpayee to establish ties, but the mission ...

Morarji Desai (1977-1979): Morarji Desai, the fifth Prime Minister of India, was born on 29 February 1896. He served as the Prime Minister between 1977 and 1979 leading the government formed by ...

Morarji Desai was awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan, Pakistan’s highest civilian award, in 1988. Desai attended the University of Mumbai and joined the provincial civil service of Bombay as a minor ...

Nirmala Sitharaman Makes History With Her 7th Budget, Surpasses Morarji Desai Desai presented six budgets during his tenure as Finance Minister from 1959 to 1963 and from 1967 to 1969.

Morarji Desai holds the rare distinction of being the only Indian to have received both the Bharat Ratna and the Nishan-e-Pakistan—the highest civilian honours of India and Pakistan, respectively.

Though not a ‘leap year February’, it is February and I recall two notable Indians who were born on the last day of February. Morarji Desai arrived in the modest Gujarati home of a school teacher in a ...

Morarji Desai, 99, crusty Puritan who sprang from imprisonment to become India’s prime minister (1977-79) and usher in some of his country’s most momentous political changes; one of the ...