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Anand Sharan Raturi (born 1919) was an Indian educator who became the first Vice-Chancellor of M. J. P. Rohilkhand University in
Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...
, India. Raturi was born in Godi-Sirai, Tehri Grahwal district in India to Satya Sharan Raturi and Bindeshwari Devi Ghildiyal-Raturi. After finishing his high school in Sirai, he moved to
Mussoorie Mussoorie () is a hill station and a municipal board, in Dehradun city in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is about from the state capital of Dehradun and north of the national capital of New Delhi. The hil ...
and finished his early education at Ghananda Inter College. After India attained independence he was appointed Finance Minister of Gharwal State (the state was later merged with Uttar Pradesh). He earned his first PhD from
Allahabad University The University of Allahabad is a Central University located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. It was established on 23 September 1887 by an act of Parliament and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance (INI). It is the 4th oldest mode ...
in Economics and his second from
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. He was the first Vice-Chancellor of Rohilkhand University. He combined over 100 colleges in
Rohilkhand Rohilkhand (today Bareilly, Moradabad, Badaun and Rampur; ) is a region in the northwestern part of Uttar Pradesh, India, that is centered on the Bareilly and Moradabad divisions. It is part of the upper Ganges Plain, and is named after the ...
into one institution.


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* Amitabh Sharan Raturi * Bhishma Kukreti * {{DEFAULTSORT:Raturi, Anand Sharan 1919 births Possibly living people People from Tehri Garhwal district 20th-century Indian economists University of Allahabad alumni Harvard University alumni Indian expatriates in the United States