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{{Short description|Former Prime Minister of Nepal who held office mostly during Panchayat Regime}}
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| honorific_prefix = [[Prime Minister]]
| name = Tulsi Giri
| native_name = तुलसी गिरी
| image = Tulsi Giri, 1963 (cropped).jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Tulsi Giri in 1963
| office = [[List of prime ministers of Nepal|23rd]] [[Prime Minister of Nepal]]
| monarch1 = [[Mahendra of Nepal|Mahendra]]
| term_start1 = 2 April 1960
| term_end1 = 23 December 1963
| predecessor1 = [[Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala]]
| successor1 = [[Surya Bahadur Thapa]]
| monarch2 = Mahendra
| term_start2 = 26 February 1964
| term_end2 = 26 January 1965
| predecessor2 = [[Surya Bahadur Thapa]]
| successor2 = Surya Bahadur Thapa
| monarch3 = [[Birendra of Nepal|King Birendra]]
| term_start3 = 1 December 1975
| term_end3 = 12 September 1977
| predecessor3 = [[Nagendra Prasad Rijal]]
| successor3 = [[Kirti Nidhi Bista]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|9|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Siraha]], [[Siraha District]], [[Nepal]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|12|18|1926|9|26|df=y}}
| death_place = Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu
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'''Tulsi Giri''' ({{lang-ne|तुलसी गिरि}}; 26 September 1926 – 18 December 2018) was the [[Prime Minister of Nepal|Prime Minister]] of [[Nepal]]<ref name="Praagh2003">{{cite book|last=Praagh|first=David Van|title=The Greater Game: India's Race with Destiny and China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCI4492cHTEC&pg=PA332|year=2003|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-2639-6|page=332}}</ref> from 1975 to 1977, and chairman of the Council of Ministers (a ''de facto'' Prime Ministerial position) in 1963, and again in 1964 and 1965. He was born in [[Siraha District]], Nepal in 1926.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TqAEAAAAYAAJ&q=Tulsi+Giri|title=Ilmi Encyclopaedia of General Knowledge |publisher=Ilmi Kitab Khana |year=1979 |page=382 |chapter=Profile of Tulsi Giri}}</ref> Tulsi was a Minister in the [[Nepali Congress|Congress]] government of 1959−1960 before its dissolution by King [[Mahendra of Nepal|Mahendra]]. He became the first Prime Minister following the two-year period of Mahendra's direct rule. He studied at the [[Suri Vidyasagar College]], when it was affiliated with the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref>[http://www.surivcollege.org.in/alumni.html Prominent alumni, Suri Vidyasagar College] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409132414/http://www.surivcollege.org.in/alumni.html |date=2012-04-09}}</ref> He received a medical degree prior to entering politics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://demrepubnepal.blogspot.com/2005/10/tulsi-giri-interview.html |title=Tulsi Giri Interview |date=7 October 2005 |website=Democracy for Nepal}}</ref>

Tulsi was married 3 times and had 2 sons and 4 daughters, as of 2005, to Sarah Giri, a deaf-rights advocate. As of 2013 they had been married 34 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wagle.com.np/2005/11/30/meeting-the-other-sarah-giri/ |title=Meeting the Other (Sarah) Giri |date=30 November 2005 |website=Wagle Street Journal}}</ref> As an adult Tulsi was baptized to his wife's faith, [[Jehovah's Witnesses]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Analysis: Nepal one month on|date=1 March 2005|first=Charles|last=Haviland|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4304001.stm|publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref> He resigned as chairman Rastriya Panchayat in 1986 and moved to [[Sri Lanka]]<ref>{{cite web|title=From Kathmandu to Damon: The Story of Dr. Giri |url=http://www.nepalstory.com/engelsk/e-02-17.html |date=17 February 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022091552/http://www.nepalstory.com/engelsk/e-02-17.html|url-status=dead |archive-date=22 October 2014}}</ref> where he stayed for two years and then finally settled in [[Bangalore]], [[India]] until 2005. He died on December 18, 2018, at his home in [[Budanilkantha|Budhanilkantha]], [[Kathmandu]] aged 92, from liver cancer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2018-12-18/former-prime-minister-tulsi-giri-passes-away-at-93.html |title=Former Prime Minister Tulsi Giri passes away at 93 |newspaper=Kathmandu Post |date=18 December 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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{{s-ttl|title=[[List of Prime Ministers of Nepal|Prime Minister of Nepal]]|years=1960 – 1963}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Surya Bahadur Thapa]]}}
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{{s-ttl|title=[[List of Prime Ministers of Nepal|Prime Minister of Nepal]]|years=1964 – 1965}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Surya Bahadur Thapa]]}}
{{s-bef|before=[[Nagendra Prasad Rijal]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[List of Prime Ministers of Nepal|Prime Minister of Nepal]]|years=1975 – 1977}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Kirti Nidhi Bista]]}}
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{{Prime Ministers of Nepal}}

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[[Category:Nepali Congress politicians]]
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]
[[Category:Deaths from cancer in Nepal]]
[[Category:Deaths from liver cancer]]
[[Category:Nepalese Jehovah's Witnesses]]
[[Category:Converts to Jehovah's Witnesses]]
[[Category:Nepalese expatriates in Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:Nepalese expatriates in India]]
[[Category:People from Siraha District]]
[[Category:Members of the Rastriya Panchayat]]
[[Category:20th-century prime ministers of Nepal]]
[[Category:Nepalese Hindus]]

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