Uma Shankar Dikshit

Uma Shankar Dikshit
11th Governor of West Bengal
In office
2 October 1984 – 12 August 1986
Chief MinisterJyoti Basu
Preceded bySatish Chandra (acting)
Succeeded bySaiyid Nurul Hasan
2nd Governor of Karnataka
In office
10 January 1976 – 2 August 1977
Chief MinisterD. Devaraj Urs
Preceded byMohan Lal Sukhadia
Succeeded byGovind Narain
10th Minister of Home Affairs
In office
5 February 1973 – 10 October 1974
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Preceded byIndira Gandhi
Succeeded byKasu Brahmananda Reddy
Minister of Health and Family Welfare
In office
19 May 1971 – 5 February 1973
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Preceded byKodardas Kalidas Shah
Succeeded byRaghunath Keshav Khadilkar (As MoS)
Personal details
Born12 January 1901
Ugu, North-Western Provinces, British India
(Now in Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died30 May 1991(1991-05-30) (aged 90)
New Delhi, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
Alma materChrist Church College, Kanpur

| Relatives = Sheela Dixit, Sandeep Dixit

Uma Shankar Dikshit (12 January 1901 – 30 May 1991) was an Indian politician, cabinet minister and Governor of West Bengal[1] and Governor of Karnataka.[2]

  1. ^ "Governors >> Governors of Bengal from 1912 up to the present day". Governor of West Bengal website. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013.
  2. ^ Governors Archived 17 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Governor of Karnataka website.

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