Lalit Sen

{{Short description|Indian politician}}

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| birth_date = April 21, 1932

| birth_place = Shimla, Punjab, British India (now Himachal Pradesh, India)

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| death_date = October 18, 1985 (aged 53)

| death_place = Delhi

| office = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

| term = 1962-1971

| predecessor = Joginder Sen

| successor = Virbhadra Singh

| constituency = Mandi, Himachal Pradesh

| party = Indian National Congress

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| spouse = Kirshna Kumari

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| source = https://loksabha.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1528.htm

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Lalit Sen (21 April 1932 - 18 October 1985) was an Indian politician from Himachal Pradesh. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, from the Mandi constituency, as a member of the Indian National Congress.

He was a student of Bishop Cotton School, Shimla and did his degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Romance-with-royals-is-a-trait-in-Mandi/articleshow/31694084.cms | title=Romance with royals is a trait in Mandi | publisher=The Times of India | work=Anand Bodh | date=9 March 2014 | accessdate=7 April 2019}}{{cite book|author=Mark Brentnall|title=The Princely and Noble Families of the Former Indian Empire: Himachal Pradesh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ayYbAvECXQwC&pg=PA105|accessdate=7 April 2019|year=2004|publisher=Indus Publishing|isbn=978-81-7387-163-4|pages=105–}}{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KAIuAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=7 April 2019|year=1970|page=9803}}

His father was Raja Lakshman Sen Bahadur, the last ruling king of the erstwhile princely state of Suket. Upon his father's death, Lalit Sen became the 51st titular Raja of Suket. After Lalit Sen's death his son Hari Sen, an academic historian by profession, nominally succeeded him to the throne of Suket.{{Cite web |last=Rathore |first=Abhinay |title=Suket (Princely State) |url=https://www.indianrajputs.com/view/suket |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=Rajput Provinces of India |date=1693 |language=en}}