V. K. R. V. Rao | |
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| Union Minister of Education | |
| In office 14 February 1969 – 18 March 1971 | |
| Prime Minister | Indira Gandhi |
| Preceded by | Triguna Sen |
| Succeeded by | Siddhartha Shankar Ray |
| Union Minister of Shipping and Transport | |
| In office 13 March 1967 – 14 February 1969 | |
| Prime Minister | Indira Gandhi |
| Preceded by | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
| Succeeded by | Kotha Raghuramaiah |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Vijayendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao (1908-07-08)8 July 1908 |
| Died | 25 July 1991(1991-07-25) (aged 83) |
| Occupation | Politician, economist |
| Awards | Padma Vibhushan (1974) |
Vijayendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao (8 July 1908 – 25 July 1991) was an Indian economist, politician and educator.[1]
Rao was born in a Kannada speakingMadhwa Brahmin family[2] on 8 July 1908 atKancheepuram inTamil Nadu to Kasturirangachar and Bharati Amma. He had his early schooling in Tindivanam and Madras (Chennai).[3] He obtained a B.A and M.A. in economics from Bombay University (now Mumbai University) before earning another B.A. from Cambridge, where he was a member ofGonville and Caius College. He was awarded the Ph.D. of Cambridge in 1937; the title of his doctoral thesis was "The National Income of British India, 1931-1932". He studied withJohn Maynard Keynes.[citation needed]
He served as a Union Minister for Education in 1971, elected as a member forBellary in 1967 and 1971. He was awarded thePadma Vibhushan by theGovernment of India in 1974.
TheCentral Institute of Indian Languages,Mysuru, an office of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, is considered to be the brainchild of Rao.[4]
Notable among his works are: Taxation of Income in India (1931), An essay on India’s National Income -1925-29 – (1936); The National Income of British India (1940); India and International Currency Plans (1945); Post-War Rupee (1948); Greater Delhi A Study in Urbanization 1940-1957 (1965); Gandhian Alternative to Western Socialism (1970); Values and Economic Development – The Indian Challenge (1971); the Nehru Legacy (1971); Swami Vivekananda – Prophet of Vedantic Socialism (1978); Many Languages and One Nation – the Problem of Integration (1979); India’s National Income 1950-80 (1983) Food, Nutrition and Poverty (1982); Indian socialism: Retrospect and Prospect (1982), etc.[5]
He is commemorated by the VKRV Rao prizes in Social Science Research.[6]
