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Performance TitleLal Bahadur Shastri 1904-1966 - In Memoriam
Performance Date21 January 1966
Performance DayFriday
Main PerformersMr P N Haksar (Chair, Acting High Commissioner of India),
Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson,
Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma,
Rt. Hon. Lord Sorensen (President of the Indo-British Parliamentary Group),
Rt. Hon. Mr Selwyn Lloyd QC MP,
Mr Jeremy Thorpe MP - speakers

Charles Smart - organ
Set List'Ramdhun' (Charles Smart),
Addresses
Performance NotesThe event was held to commemorate the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-1966). Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party.

HM The Queen was represented by Lt-Colonel the Lord Bugent (Permanent Lord in Waiting) at a this event.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1966/8)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1966/8Lal Bahadur Shastri 1904-1966 - In Memoriam21 January 1966
Work
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Ukazov_F_MczLal Bahadur Shastri 1904-1966 - In Memoriam1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/11118Wilson; Lord; Harold (1916-1995); The Lord Wilson of Rievaulx; British Labour Party politician
DS/UK/6716Mountbatten; Lord; Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas (1900-1979); 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG GCB OM GCSI GCIE GCVO DSO PC FRS; British statesman, naval officer
DS/UK/7245Sorensen; Reginald William (1891-1971); Baron Sorensen; British Unitarian minister, Labour Party politician
DS/UK/11945Lloyd; John Selwyn Brooke (1904-1978); Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, CH CBE TD PC; British Conservative Party politician
DS/UK/7519Smart; Charles (fl 1940s-1960s); British organist
DS/UK/15801Thorpe; Jeremy (29 April 1929-4 December 2014); British Liberal Party politician
DS/UK/15800Haksar; Parmeshwar Narayan (1913-1998); Indian bureaucrat, diplomat
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