Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Varahagiri Venkata Giri (10 August 1894 23 June 1980), commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth President of the Republic of India from 24 August 1969 to 23 August 1974. He was born in a Telugu-speaking family to Varahagiri Venkata Jogaiah, residing in Berhampur in the Ganjam district of the erstwhile Madras Presidency. The town and district are now part of the state of Odisha. His father was an eminent lawyer and migrated to Berhampur from Chintalapalli village, now part of East Goadvari District - Andhra Pradesh State. In 1913, he went to University College Dublin to study law, but was expelled from Ireland in 1916 after becoming involved with the Sinn Féin movement. This involvement had brought him into close contact with Eamon de Valera, Michael Collins, Patrick Pearse, Desmond FitzGerald, Eoin MacNeil, James Connolly and others.