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Mahendra Gaur

lawyer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ6733731
Source-derived summary

Mahendra Gaur (born 26 January 1956) is an Indian lawyer.

Early life

Mahendra Gaur born on 26 January 1956 at Nasirabad (Ajmer) spent his early years in Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur for education. In 1967 he was selected for National Merit Scholarship and sponsored to Vidya Bhawan Public School, Udaipur for schooling. In 1971 he enrolled for engineering in Malaviya Regional Engineering College (now Malaviya National Institute of Technology) and graduated in 1976 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Career

Mahendra Gaur joined Indian Oil Corporation Limited in February 1977. He underwent one-year training on "Utilization of Fuels and Lubricants in I. C. Engines and Industrial Machinery at Indian Institution of Petroleum, Dehradun as sponsored candidate from Indian Oil. He worked as Lubricant Technologist at Mumbai, Bhopal, Rajkot, Ahemdabad offices of Indian Oil. In 1989, he was sponsored by Indian Oil and Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India to National Management Program conducted by Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. The National Management Program was brainchild of Rajiv Gandhi and coordinated by P. Chidambaram. The National Management Program was supported by the three Indian Institute of Management, Ahemdabad, Banguluru, and Kolkata and XLRI Jamshedpur.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mahendra Gaur” is lawyer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mahendra, Gaur and lawyer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 1967, 1971, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-01-26. For this dossier, Mahendra, Gaur and lawyer is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6733731. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956, 1967, 1971 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from Mahendra Gaur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.