Nationality Indian Parents Chanda, Hira Lal | Role Indian Political leader Name Ram Lohia | |
Books Guilty Men of India's Partition Similar People Jayaprakash Narayan, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, Ram Naik | ||
Dr ram manohar lohia saat krantiya part 1
Ram Manohar Lohia pronunciation , (23 March 1910 – 12 October 1967) was an activist for the Indian independence movement and a socialist political leader. During the last phase of British rule in India, he worked with the Congress Radio which was broadcast secretly from various places in Bombay city till 1942.
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- Dr ram manohar lohia saat krantiya part 1
- Ram Manohar Lohia would have been proud of NDA government PM Modi
- Early life
- National Movement
- Major writings in English
- Selected books on Lohia
- Memorials
- References
Ram Manohar Lohia would have been proud of NDA government: PM Modi
Early life
Ram Manohar Lohia was born on 23 March 1910 at Akbarpur in the present-day Uttar Pradesh, in a prosperous Vaishya family. His mother died in 1912, when he was just two years old, and he was later brought up by his father Hiralal who never remarried. In 1918 he accompanied his father to Bombay where he completed his high school education. He attended the Banaras Hindu University to complete his intermediate course work after standing first in his school's matriculation examinations in 1927. He then joined the Vidyasagar College, under the University of Calcutta and in 1929, earned his B.A. degree. He decided to attend Frederick William University (today's Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) over all prestigious educational institutes in Britain to convey his dim view of British philosophy. He soon learned German and received financial assistance based on his outstanding academic performance, studying national economy as his major subject as a doctoral student from 1929 to 1933.
Lohia wrote his PhD thesis paper on the topic of Salt Taxation in India, focusing on Gandhi's socio-economic theory.
National Movement
Lohia was one of the founders of the Congress Socialist Party and editor of its mouthpiece Congress Socialist. In 1936, he was selected by Jawaharlal Nehru as secretary of the Foreign Department of the A.I.C.C. By the time he left the Foreign Department in 1938, Lohia started to develop his own political standpoint by critically examining positions held by the Gandhian leadership of the Congress and the Communists who had poured into the CSP. In June 1940, he was arrested and sentenced to a jail term of two years for delivering anti-war speeches. Already released by the end of 1941, Lohia became of the leading figures of the Central Directorate which clandestinely tried to organize the Quit India revolt, sparked by Gandhi in August 1942. Captured in May 1944, he was incarcerated and tortured in Lahore Fort. As one of the last high security prisoners, Lohia - together with Jayaprakash Narayan - was finally released on April 11, 1946.
Major writings in English
Selected books on Lohia
Memorials
