- Brajkishore Prasad
Brajkishore Prasad was born in 1877 in
Shrinagar toRamjivan Lal a zamindar now in Siwan district inBihar . He had his early education inChapra andPatna before moving to Presidency College inCalcutta where he completed his legal training. In between he was married toPhool Devi . He set up a roaring legal practise inDarbhanga and had two sonsVishwa Nath andShiv Nath and two daughters,Prabhavati Devi andVidyawati .Prabhavati Devi was married toJayaprakash Narayan andVidyawati toMrityunjaya Prasad ,son ofRajendra Prasad .He met with
Mahatma Gandhi in 1915 and was immediately taken in by him. He decided to get involved full time in the freedom struggle and gave up his legal practice. He was instrumental in Gandhi taking up theChamparan movement whereRajendra Prasad and [cite web
url=http://www.kamat.com/database/biographies/anugrah_narayan_sinha.htm
title=Biography: Anugrah Narayan Sinha
author=Kamat
publisher=Kamat's archive
accessdate=2006-06-25]Anugrah Narayan Sinha were handpicked with him to successfully lead the movement . Gandhi was so impressed by his dedication that he set aside a full chapter on him in his autobiographical book,My experiments with truth called "The Gentle Bihari".He remained at the forefront of the freedom struggle in Bihar and collaborating with several colleagues was instrumental is the setting up of
Bihar Vidyapeeth . For the last ten years of his life he was severely infirmed and died in 1946. [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Story_of_My_Experiments_with_Truth/Part_V/The_Gentle_Bihari]References
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