Pandit Raghunath Vinayak Dhulekar

Pandit Raghunath Vinayak Dhulekar was a prominent Indian freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh who took active part in the Quit India movement and held many responsible positions in Indian politics such as Member of the Parliament of India and Constituent Assembly in the year 1952. He was also Speaker of Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha between 1958 and 1963.

Personal

*January 6, 1891, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh

*1914, BA (Honors), English, Calcutta University

*1916, MALLB, Allahabad University

*Started practising Law at Jhansi Highcourt

*Marriage : May 10th, 1912, Married Smt Janki of Raipur

*Alias : "Be-Dil" - Significant contributor in Kakori train robbery with Azad & Bismil.

An accomplished linguist

*Proficient in 11 foreign languages including Persian,German & Arabic

The freedom struggle

*1916 - Joined HomeRule, League with Lokmanya Tilak
*1920 - Gave up sweet & sugar intake at the request from Mahatma Gandhi
*1920-25 - Published Hindi newspaper 'Swaraja Prapti' & 'Free India' in English using own money and resources
*1925 - Arrested for the first time by British forces for being part of Freedom Struggle
*1934 - Established 'Rashtra Seva Mandal' at Jhansi. Founded Ayurvedic College 'Acharya Dhulekar Ayurvedic College'
*1937-44 - Went to jail for continuing partipation in Freedom movement
*1937 - Elected as Congressman in UP Legislative Assembly
*1939-44 - House arrested for Anti-Imperialism activities

*1946 - Presented a bill to make Hindi, the national language.
*Bill was passed in constituent assembly and because of his effort Hindi became National language of India.
*1946 - Elected Member of Constituent Assembly along with Dr. B R Ambedkar

After independence

*"'1952-57 - Elected Member of Parliament from Jhansi.

*Key colleagues in Parliament - Pt Nehru, Sardar Patel, VV Giri, VK Krishna Menon, Dr B R Ambdekar, Maulana Azad"'

*1958-64 - Elected Chairman of UP Legislative Council, Lucknow
*1964 - Resigned from Politics and turned towards Spiritualism & Philosophy
*1967 - Started delivering discourses on spiritualism in Jhansi
*1967 - Founded 'Siddheshwar Vedant Peeth' and constructed Shiva Temple
*1974 - Donated Ayurvedic College to UP Government
*1974 - Honored with Degree of D.Litt by Bundelkhand University
*1978 - Felicitated by JagatGuru Shankaracharya at Lucknow
*1980 - Left for heavenly abode at Jhansi

Books written

* Shweta-shwatrupanishad Bhashya
* Prashnapanishad Saral Bhashya
* Atmadarshi Geeta Bhashya * Availability : http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000CRBCK
* Pillars of Vedant
* Chaturvedanugami Bhashya
* Kathopnishad Saral Bhasyha

External links

*http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/debates/vol5p11b.htm
*http://dahd.nic.in/ch1/annex1.22.htm
*http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/01 ...
*http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/debates/vol5p11b.htm
*http://lawstudent.in/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1223&sid=1a08114ccb0a1b275d870b5a86436115
*http://wikimapia.org/1463058/