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Subramanian Swamy is a politician, economist and popular entity in India. He is also serving as a nominated member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha. Subramanian Swamy needs no introduction and has a large fan following on social media and on Twitter his account can be reached at swamy39.

Swamy39 Biography

Before joining politics, he was a professor of Mathematical economics at the Indian institute of technology, Delhi. Swamy has started his political career with his involvement in the Sarvodaya movement which was a non-political movement but which formed the foundation of the creation of Janta Party. His main political career came after his dismissal from the Indian institute of Technology, Delhi. Staunch opponent of Indira Gandhi bharatiya Jana Sangh sent him to Rajya sabha which is the upper house of
Indian parliament.

Member of Parliament of Rajya Sabha:

Subramanian Swamy (Swamy39) was a member of the Rajya sabha and nominated as a minister of commerce and industry and minister of Law between 1990 and 1991.

Member of Parliament of Lok Sabha:

As a member of the parliament of Lok sabha, Swamy has represented the city of Mumbai North East twice from 1977 to 1980 and the city of Madurai in 1998. As a Rajya Sabha member, he has represented Uttar Pradesh in the parliament.

During the period of the emergency, he fled to the United States of America seeking haven with an Indian businessman in Michigan who had become the spokesperson of the opponent in the United States of America.

Swamy started his opinion that the Janata party should focus on the organizational level of the party. He was also the president of the Janta Party between 1990 and 2013.

Birth and family:

• Subramanian Swamy was born on 15 September 1939 in Mylapore, Chennai, India.
• His wife’s name is Roxna Swamy and they married in 1996. They have two daughters.
• The elder daughter Gitanjali Swamy is an entrepreneur and private equity professional. Gitanjali is married to Sanjay Sharma who is also a professor at MIT.The younger daughter, Suhasini Haidar is a print and television journalist married to Nadeem Haidar who is the son of former Indian foreigner secretary, Salman Haider.
• He is originally from Madurai in Tamil Nadu. Swamy was born in a Brahmin family. His father was a bureaucrat and his mother was a housewife.
• He has a younger brother Ram Subramanian and two younger sisters.

Education of Swamy39

• Subramanian Swamy (Swamy39) completed his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Delhi. After graduation, he completed his master’s degree in statistics from the Indian statistical institute.
• He holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University through a Rockefeller scholarship. His thesis was on ” Economic growth and income distribution in developing Nations”.
• The Nobel prize holder American economist Simon Kuznets was an advisor to Subramanian Swamy during his PhD.
• He attended the Massachusetts institute of technology as a cross-registered student. Later on, he worked at the United Nations secretariat economics affairs in 1963.
• Books, research papers and journals:

Swamy39 is the author of various books, research papers and journals.

Significant books:

● Economic growth in China and India, 1952-1970( published by University of Chicago press; ISBN 978-8-226-78315-4)
● Sri Lanka in Crisis, India’s option ( published by Har Anand publication; ISBN 978-81-241-1268-1)
● Rama Setu: symbol of national unity ( published by Har Anand publications; ISBN 978-241-1418-6)
● The ideology of India’s morden rights ( published by Har Anand publications ISBN 978-8124118724)
● Himalayan challenge: India, China and the quest for peace ( published by Rupa publication India, ISBN 978-93-90358-19-5)

Articles by Swamy39

● The response to economic challenges: a comparative economic history of China and India, 1870-1952( published by the quarterly journal of economic, volume 93 by Harvard University by the MIT Press, 1979)
● Can India make it? India path to sustained growth ( published by Harvard Asia Pacific Review, volume 6-8 by Harvard University and civilization, 2001).

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Research papers:

● Land reforms: an economist approach ( published by Deendayal research institute)
● Swamy Subramanian ( 1970), on Samuelson’s conjecture, Indian economic review. 5/2: 169-175, ISTOR 23294448.
● Nuclear policy for India( published by Bharatiya Janata Sangh publication, 1968)
● Land reforms: an economist approach ( published by Deendayal research institute).

Awards:

Swamy was awarded an alumni award in 2012 by the organization of Hindu college, university of Delhi and he also got Tamil Ratna in 2016 by America Tamil Sangam.