Sudhakar Chaturvedi

Sudhakar Chaturvedi (born 1897) [cite web
url = http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19980718/19950564.html
title = "About Panditji's Birth Year: Been there, seen that: 101-yr-old-man still rages at Dyer's "fire""
accessdate = 2008-14-04] is a Vedic scholar who lives in Jayanagar, Bangalore in Karnataka, India. The surname "Chaturvedi" literally means "master of the four Vedas", but in the present time it has become a common surname; however, Sudhakar Chaturvedi is a Chaturvedi in the original sense as he has spent a majority of his life studying the four Vedas. He is a disciple of Swami Shraddhanand [cite web
url = http://haridwar.nic.in/gurukul.htm
title = "About Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar"
accessdate = 2006-08-04] .

Chaturvedi was a contemporary of Mahatma Gandhi, whom he first met when studying the Vedas in a "gurukula" in northern India. Subsequently he became an ardent follower of Gandhian methods. He was a witness to many events in the Indian independence movement, including being an eyewitness to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

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*cite news
title = The Gandhians in our midst
publisher = The Hindu
date = 2003-10-02
url = http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/02/stories/2003100208930400.htm

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