Sir Rabindrah Ghurburrun (

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: சர் இரவீந்திர குருபரன்) (1928–2008) was the first

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from 1992 to 1997. He started his political career as a member of the

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. However, he was appointed by the

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coalition government as vice president while the Labour Party was in the opposition. A lawyer by profession, he did a diploma at the

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. He was also the first High Commissioner of Mauritius to

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. Then

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Indira Gandhi described him as behaving like the last

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of India He died at the age of 79 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghurburrun, Rabindranath 1928 births 2008 deaths Mauritian Hindus Mauritian people of Indian descent Vice-presidents of Mauritius 20th-century Mauritian lawyers Alumni of the University of Oxford High Commissioners of Mauritius to India Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Grand Officers of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean