Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has died at the age of 92.
Singh was one of India’s longest-serving prime ministers and was credited as the architect of key liberalizing economic reforms, serving as prime minister from 2004 to 2014 and before that as finance minister.
He was reportedly admitted to a hospital in the capital Delhi after his health deteriorated.
Singh was the first Indian leader since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after a full first term, and the first Sikh to hold the country’s highest office. He publicly apologized in Parliament for the 1984 riots that killed around 3,000 Sikhs.
But his second term in office was marred by a series of corruption allegations that dogged his administration. Many say these scandals were responsible for the crushing defeat of his Congress party in the 2014 general elections.
Singh was born on September 26, 1932, in a remote village in undivided India’s Punjab province that lacked water and electricity.
After studying at the University of the Punjab, he received an MA from the University of Cambridge, followed by a PhD from Oxford.
During his studies at Cambridge, Singh’s lack of funds troubled him, his daughter Daman Singh wrote in a book about her parents.
