Gursharan Kaur Kohli (born 13 September 1937) is an Indian history professor and author who is the spouse of the former prime minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh, the 13th Prime Minister of India. Early life Gurusharan was the youngest of seven siblings born to Sardar Chattar Singh Kohli, an engineer of Burmah-Shell, and Sri Bhagwanti Kaur in Jalandhar on 13 September 1937 in British India. She has four sisters and two brothers. Her ancestral village was Dhakkam in Jhelum district (now in Punjab, Pakistan). Mrs. Singh is known in the Sikh community of Delhi for her kirtan singing, and has also appeared on Jalandhar Radio. Personal life Since Manmohan Singh became Prime Minister in 2004, she has accompanied him abroad on state visits. However, the family has largely stayed out of the limelight. Their three daughters - Upinder, Daman and Amrit, have successful, non-political, careers. Upinder Kaur is a professor of history at Delhi University. She has written six books, including Ancient Delhi (1999) and A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India (2008). Daman Singh is a graduate of St. Stephen's College, Delhi and Institute of Rural Management, Anand, Gujarat, and author of The Last Frontier: People and Forests in Mizoram and a novel Nine by Nine. Amrit Singh is a staff attorney at the ACLU. References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20060210003303/http://pmindia.nic.in/photo_gallary/GetPhoto.asp?id=112 https://web.archive.org/web/20070304090056/http://www.hinduonnet.com/gallery/0372/037202.jpg Living people Indian Sikhs Punjabi people 1937 births People from Chakwal District Spouses of prime ministers of India Manmohan Singh 20th-century Indian women writers 20th-century Indian writers St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni American Civil Liberties Union people