Kalyan Singh: Difference between revisions

Kalyan Singh was born in [[Aligarh district]] in the [[United Provinces]] (now [[Uttar Pradesh]]) in 1932.<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Governor |url=https://himachalrajbhavan.nic.in/governor_KalyanSingh.html |publisher=Raj Bhavan Himachal Pradesh |access-date=16 August 2021}}</ref> His family was from the [[Lodhi (caste)|Lodhi]] community.<ref name=Dubey>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Dubey|first=Abhay Kumar|editor1-last=Pai |editor1-first=Sudha |title=A Case of Majoritarianism Unpacked|pages=83–109|encyclopedia=Political Process in Uttar Pradesh: Identity, Economic Reforms, and Governance |date=2007 |publisher=Pearson Education India |isbn=9788131707975 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S46rbUL6GrMC}}</ref>{{clarify|reason=it doesn't take 26 pages in a source for it to say this}} Singh was a ''swayamsevak'', or volunteer, of the [[Hindutva|Hindu nationalist]] [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]], becoming a member while still in school.<ref name=Dubey/><ref name="HT 2004">{{cite news |title=Kalyan Singh |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/kalyan-singh/story-WYceeUtEDtQmWD6bjwjz0J.html |access-date=20 August 2021 |work=Hindustan Times |date=13 April 2004}}</ref><ref name="Horowitz">{{cite book|last1=Horowitz|first1=Donald L.|title=The Deadly Ethnic Riot|year=2001|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|isbn=978-0520224476|page=[https://archive.org/details/deadlyethnicriot00horo/page/244 244]|url=https://archive.org/details/deadlyethnicriot00horo/page/244}}</ref> His son, [[Rajveer Singh]], and grandson, [[Sandeep Singh (politician)|Sandeep Singh]], are also politicians and members of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].<ref name="ET"/>