Gurshalan Kaur Gujral is the wife of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Let’s take a look at her age, family, and biography.
Biography/Wiki
Gursharan Kaur was born on September 13, 1937 in Jalandhar, British India (now Jalandhar, Punjab, India) (now 81 years old). She received her primary education from Singh Sabha Girls School and her secondary education from Guru Nanak Kanya Pathshala, Amritsar. After completing her studies, she went to Government Women’s College, Patiala for her graduation. After that, she joined Khalsa College in Amritsar to pursue Bachelor of Teaching (BT).
appearance
Gursharan Kaur is 5 feet tall and weighs approximately 64 kg. This elegant lady has black eyes and white hair.
Gurshalan Kaur
family, caste and husband
Gurshalan was born into a middle-class trading Sikh family in Dhakam village in Jhelum district. She is the daughter of Chattar Singh Gujral, a former engineer of Burmah-Shell. Her mother is Sardarni Bhagwanti Kaur, a housewife. She has one brother and four sisters.
She married Manmohan Singh, the 13th Prime Minister of India, on September 14, 1958. They had three daughters: Amrit Singh, Daman Singh and Upinder Singh.
Gulshalan Kaur and her husband Manmohan Singh
Amrit Singh is a professional human rights lawyer.
Gurshalan Kaur’s daughter Amrit Singh
Daman Singh is a writer.
Gurshalan Kaur’s daughter Dharmaman Singh
Upinder Singh is a historian.
Upinder Singh, daughter of Gursharan Kaur
Gulshalan Kaur and her family
net worth
Her net worth is approximately 110 million rupees (2014).
fact
- She is a vegetarian and Odia cuisine is her all-time favorite.
- In her free time she enjoys singing Qurbani songs, traveling and reading.
- She prefers to buy food from Mother Dairy.
- Since childhood, she has had a keen interest in games and kirtan.
- She originally planned to become a school teacher.
- She was passionate about her religion and was famous for singing Qurbani verses.
- When she was only a few months old, her father had to move to Nowshera, near Peshawar, Pakistan. In 1947, when she was 10 years old, her family was lucky enough to move from Lahore to Amritsar, escaping the pogroms during the Partition of India.
- After marrying Manmohan Singh, the couple started their life in Chandigarh’s Sector 11. She started singing kitan and songs for All India Radio. In 1961, she traveled to England with her daughter Upinder Singh and her husband; as her husband was eligible for a PhD scholarship at Nuffield College, Oxford, England.
Gurshalan Kaur and Manmohan Singh in their youth
- When her husband was appointed Prime Minister of India in 2004, she found out about it not from him personally but from breaking news broadcast on news channels.
- In 2014, her daughter Daman Singh wrote a book called Strictly Personal: Manmohan and Gulshalan.
Purely personal experiences of Manmohan and Gulshalan
- In the biographical political film The Accidental Prime Minister (2019), Gursharan Kaur’s character was played by Divya Seth, while Anupam Kher ) plays Manmohan Singh.
Divya Seth plays Gursharan Kaur and Anupam Kher plays Manmohan Singh in The Accidental Prime Minister
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education