Pandit Raghunath Vinayak Dhulekar was a prominent India

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n freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh who took an active part in the Quit India movement and held many responsible positions in Indian politics such as Member of the Parliament of India

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 and Constituent Assembly

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 in the year 1952. He was also Speaker of Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

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 Vidhan Sabha

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 between 1958 and 1963.

Personal

• January 6, 1891, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh

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

• 1916, MA, LLB, Allahabad University
  Allahabad University
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• Started practising Law at Jhansi Highcourt

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

• Alias : "Be-Dil" - Significant contributor in Kakori train robbery
  Kakori train robbery
  The Kakori train robbery was a train robbery that took place between Kakori and Alamnagar near Lucknow, on 9 August 1925 during the Indian Independence Movement against the British.German-made Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistols with wooden stock were used in this historical event by the Hindustan...
  
  with Azad & Bismil.

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 participation 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 with an addition that it Hindi will become the national language after 15 years (in 1965). But Hindi never became the national language after the protests in Tamil Nadu (Anti Hindi Agitation of 1965).

• 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/