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Kumar Suresh Singh | Kumar Suresh Singh was the son of the zamindar of Nayagaon in [[Munger]] district in Bihar and a son-in-law of the Maharaja of Chotanagpur. He studied history, coming first in the first-class in the BA (Hons.) examination of [[Patna University]]. He subsequently obtained a master's degree, and finally a PhD which he wrote on the revolutionary, [[Birsa Munda]].<ref name=Frontline20060630>{{cite news |title=Scholar of society |newspaper=Frontline |volume=23 |issue=12 |date=30 June 2006 |url=http://www.flonnet.com/fl2312/stories/20060630006312500.htm |first=T. K. |last=Rajalakshmi |access-date=9 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611204439/http://www.flonnet.com/fl2312/stories/20060630006312500.htm |archive-date=11 June 2011}}</ref> | ||
He joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1958. He worked among the [[Santhal people|Santhal]]s<ref name=Frontline20060630/> and then spent the period 1965–1968 as Deputy Commissioner at [[Palamu]], in the [[Chhotanagpur]] area. This posting coincided with the [[Famine in India#Bihar famine|Bihar famine]], for which he helped to organise relief and which introduced some innovative approaches that have subsequently been adopted elsewhere.<ref name=Sinha2007>{{cite journal |title=Obituary: Kumar Suresh Singh (1935–2006) |journal=Indian Historical Review |date=January 2007 |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=365–368 |first=A. K. |last=Sinha |doi=10.1177/037698360703400136 |s2cid=142819673 }}{{subscription required}}</ref> | He joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1958. He worked among the [[Santhal people|Santhal]]s<ref name=Frontline20060630/> and then spent the period 1965–1968 as Deputy Commissioner at [[Palamu]], in the [[Chhotanagpur]] area. This posting coincided with the [[Famine in India#Bihar famine|Bihar famine]], for which he helped to organise relief and which introduced some innovative approaches that have subsequently been adopted elsewhere.<ref name=Sinha2007>{{cite journal |title=Obituary: Kumar Suresh Singh (1935–2006) |journal=Indian Historical Review |date=January 2007 |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=365–368 |first=A. K. |last=Sinha |doi=10.1177/037698360703400136 |s2cid=142819673 }}{{subscription required}}</ref> | ||