# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kashiram-rana
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:39:02.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kashiram-rana"
name: "Kashiram Rana"
slug: "kashiram-rana"
description: "Kashiram Rana was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India. In 1989, he was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha from Surat constituency in Gujarat. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004 from the same constituency. He served as a union cabinet minister in the department of textiles, twice, in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee led NDA govt during 1998–2004. He died on 31 August 2012."
tagline: "Indian politician (1938–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Kashiram_Rana.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1938-04-07"
deathDate: "2012-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           18.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.200108
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Kashiram Rana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashiram_Rana"
    title: "Kashiram Rana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "കാഷിറാം റാണ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "काशीराम राणा"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%BE"
    title: "కాశీరామ్ రాణా"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3595229"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump