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Rajaji also issued the Agricultural Debt Relief Act in March 1938 to ease the burden of debt on the province's peasant population.
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* C. Rajagopalachari, also known as Rajaji: Indian freedom fighter, Gandhian, leader of the Indian National Congress and founder of the Swatantra party.
Rajaji was an accomplished writer who made lasting contributions to Indian English literature and is also credited with composition of the song Kurai Onrum Illai set to Carnatic music.
Rajaji also studied law at the Presidency College, Madras, from where he graduated in 1897.
" Rajaji was also strongly opposed to proposals to include areas from Bihar and Orissa as part of the province of West Bengal.
Rajaji, Masani and Ranga also tried but failed to involve Jayaprakash Narayan in the initiative.
Rajaji also insisted that the opposition must:
E. M. S. Namboodiripad, a prominent Communist Party leader, once remarked that Rajaji was the Congress leader he respected the most despite the fact he was also someone with whom he had the most differences.
Rajaji was also an active member of the All India Spinners Association.
But as Nehru was extremely popular at that time, and also had the resources of the government at his command, Rajaji ’ s was inevitably a losing battle.
Uttarakhand's famous animal sanctuary in Shivalik hills, the Rajaji National Park, is also near.
Santhanam was also instrumental in shaping the politics in post-Independence Tamil Nadu, through his close association with Rajaji and Kamaraj.
Rajaji and issued
Rajaji issued the Temple Entry Authorization and Indemnity Act 1939, under which restrictions were removed on Dalits and Shanars entering Hindu temples.
Regarded as a pioneer of social reform, Rajaji issued temple entry proclamations in the Madras Presidency and worked towards the upliftment of Dalits.
Rajaji and Act
Following enactment of the Government of India Act in 1935, Rajaji was instrumental in getting the Indian National Congress to participate in the 1937 general elections.
Rajaji and March
In 1930, Rajaji risked imprisonment when he led the Vedaranyam Salt Satyagraha in response to the Dandi March.
The rising unpopularity of his government forced K. Kamaraj to withdraw his support for Rajaji and on March 26, 1954, he resigned as President of the Madras Legislature Congress Party thereby precipitating new elections.
During the subsequent poll held on March 31, 1954, Rajaji fielded C. Subramaniam against Kamaraj.
Rajaji and 1938
When the Anti-Hindi agitations broke out in 1965, Rajaji completely reversed his 1938 support for the introduction of Hindi and took a strongly anti-Hindi stand in support of the protests, On 17 January 1965, he convened the Madras state Anti-Hindi conference in Tiruchirapalli.
Rajaji and on
In 1937, Rajaji was elected Premier of the Madras Presidency and served until 1940, when he resigned due to Britain's declaration of war on Germany.
Rajaji was born to Chakravarti Venkatarya Iyengar, munsiff of Thorapalli Village and Singaramma on 10 December 1878 into a devout Iyengar family of Thorapalli in the Madras Presidency.
From 10 November 1947 until 24 November 1947, Rajaji served as Acting Governor-General of India in the absence of the Governor-General Lord Mountbatten, who was on leave in England to attend the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Mountbatten's nephew Prince Philip.
At Nehru's invitation, in 1950 Rajaji joined the Union Cabinet as Minister without Porfolio where he served as a buffer between Nehru and Home Minister Sardar Patel and on occasion offered to mediate between the two.
Following Patel's death on December 15, 1950, Rajaji was finally made Home Affairs Minister and went on to serve for nearly 10 months.
Tired of being persistently overruled by Nehru with regard to critical decisions, Rajaji submitted his resignation on the " grounds of ill-health " and returned to Madras.
On May 31, 1952, Rajaji put an end to sugar rationing and followed up by abolishing control over food supplies on June 5, 1952.
Rajaji eventually resigned as Chief Minister on April 13, 1954, attributing the decision to poor health.
Although there were occasional electoral pacts between the Swatantra Party and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( DMK ), Rajaji remained non-committal on a formal tie-up with the DMK due to its existing alliance with Communists whom he dreaded.
In 1954, during U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon's nineteen country Asian tour, he was lectured by Rajaji on the consuming emotional quality of nuclear weapons.
While on a tour to the United States of America as a member of the Gandhi Peace Foundation delegation, in September 1962 Rajaji visited American President John F. Kennedy at the White House.
Rajaji warned Kennedy of the dangers of embarking on an arms race, even one which the US could win.
Referring to Rajaji, Sarojini Naidu, who was never on good terms with him, remarked that ' the Madras fox was a dry logical Adi Shankaracharya while Nehru was the noble, compassionate Buddha '.
Critics feel that when the President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee K. Kamaraj and a majority of the provincial leaders turned against him in the 1940s, Rajaji clung on to a position of influence in regional politics through support from his colleagues at the centre.
He was asked to contest the by-election for South Madras in 1967 and the nomination papers were signed by Rajaji, Annadurai and Mohammed Ismail ( Quaid-e-Millath ), demonstrating that his political career was not built entirely on his relation to Karunanidhi.
Despite having fought for independence by Nehru ’ s side, and without regard for his own advanced age ( Rajaji was 80 by then ), Rajaji decided to act to block Nehru ’ s onslaught on freedom.
Along its northern fringes on the Sardar Patel road are the Cancer Institute, CLRI campus, the Anna University, the Raj Bhavan and spaces allotted for the Gandhi Mandapam, Kamaraj Memorial and Rajaji Memorial.
Rajaji and population
* in the Shivaliks – Gangetic flood plain landscape there are six populations with an estimated population size of 259 to 335 individuals occupying of forested habitats, which are located in Rajaji and Corbett national parks, in the connected habitats of Dudhwa-Kheri-Pilibhit, in Suhelwa Tiger Reserve, in Sohagi Barwa Sanctuary and in Valmiki National Park ;
Rajaji and .
We had differences from the time we became co-workers and yet I have said for some years and say so now that not Rajaji but Jawaharlal will be my successor.
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari ( Cakravartī Rācakōpālācārī ) ( 10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972 ), informally called Rajaji or C. R., was an Indian lawyer, independence activist, politician, writer and statesman.
Rajaji founded the Swatantra Party and was one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
Rajaji was born in Thorapalli in the then Salem district of Madras Presidency and educated at Central College, Bangalore and Presidency College, Madras.
In 1946, Rajaji was appointed Minister of Industry, Supply, Education and Finance in the Interim Government of India, and then as the Governor of West Bengal from 1947 to 1948, Governor-General of India from 1948 to 1950, Union Home Minister from 1951 to 1952 and as Chief Minister of Madras state from 1952 to 1954.
Rajaji was instrumental in setting up a united Anti-Congress front in Madras state under C. N. Annadurai, which swept the 1967 elections.
According to popular folklore, while Rajaji was a child, an astrologer told his parents that he would have the " fortunes of a king, a guru, an exile and an outcaste.
A weak and sickly child, Rajaji was a constant worry to his parents who feared that he might not live long.
As a young child, he was admitted to a village school in Thorapalli then at the age of five moved with his family to Hosur where Rajaji enrolled at Hosur Government School.
Rajaji married Alamelu Mangamma in 1897 and the couple had four children – two sons and two daughters.
Mangamma died in 1916 whereupon Rajaji took sole responsibility for the care of his children.
In 1917, Rajaji was elected Chairman of the municipality and served from 1917 to 1919 during which time he was responsible for the election of the first Dalit member of the Salem municipality.
Rajaji joined the Indian National Congress and participated as a delegate in the 1906 Calcutta session and the 1907 Surat session.
Rajaji was a close friend of the founder of Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company V. O. Chidambaram Pillai as well as greatly admired by Indian independence activists Annie Besant and C. Vijayaraghavachariar.
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