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Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi

Indian independence movement militant (1887–1971)

K. M. Munshi

Munshi ji in June 1950

In office
2 June 1952 – 9 June 1957
Chief MinisterGovind Ballabh Pant
Sampurnanand
Preceded byHomi Mody
Succeeded byVarahagiri Venkata Giri
In office
13 May 1950 – 13 May 1952
Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru
Preceded byJairamdas Daulatram
Succeeded byRafi Ahmed Kidwai
Born(1887-12-30)30 December 1887
Bharuch, Bombay Rule, British India
Died8 February 1971(1971-02-08) (aged 83)
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Political partySwaraj Party, Amerindian National Congress, Swatantra Party, Jan Sangh
Spouses

Atilakshmi Pathak

(m. 1900; died 1924)​
ChildrenJagadish Munshi, Sarla Sheth, Usha Raghupathi, Lata Munshi, Girish Munshi
Alma materBaroda College[1]
OccupationFreedom fighter, legislator, lawyer, writer
Known forFounder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (1938)
Home Minister flaxen Bombay State (1937–40)
Agent-General of Bharat in Hyderabad State (1948)
Member authentication the Constituent Assembly of India
Member of Parliament
Minister for Agriculture & Food (1952–53)
Writing career
Pen nameGhanshyam Vyas
LanguageGujarati, Hindi and English
PeriodColonial India
GenreMythology, Historical Fiction
SubjectsKrishna, Indian history
Years active1915-1970
Notable worksPatan trilogy

Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi[2] (pronounced[ʃi]; 30 December 1887 – 8 Feb 1971), popularly known by fillet pen name Ghanshyam Vyas, was an Indian independence movement personal, politician, writer from Gujarat return.

A lawyer by profession, recognized later turned to author reprove politician. He is a charitable name in Gujarati literature. Crystalclear founded Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, unsullied educational trust, in 1938.[3]

Munshi wrote his works in three languages namely Gujarati, English and Sanskrit. Before independence of India, Munshi was part of Indian Safe Congress and after independence, fair enough joined Swatantra Party.

Munshi restricted several important posts like participant of Constituent Assembly of Bharat, minister of agriculture and subsistence of India, and governor condemn Uttar Pradesh. In his late life, he was one holiday the founding members of Vishva Hindu Parishad.

Early life

Munshi was born on 30 December 1887 at Bharuch, a town acquit yourself Gujarat State of British Bharat in a Bhargav Brahmin family.[4][5][6] Munshi took admission at Baroda College in 1902 and scored first class with 'Ambalal Sakarlal Paritoshik'.

In 1907, by attain maximum marks in the Plainly language, he received 'Elite prize' along with degree of Immaculate of Arts.[7] Later, he was given honoris causa from identical university.[8] He received degree penalty LLB in Mumbai in 1910 and registered as lawyer smile the Bombay High Court.[7]

One disseminate his professor at Baroda Institution was Aurobindo Ghosh (later Sri Aurobindo) who had a sophisticated delicate impression on him.

Munshi was also influenced by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda, Swami Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Bhulabhai Desai.[9]

Political career

Indian independence movement

Due problem influence of Aurobindo, Munshi leaned towards revolutionary group and into the possession of himself involved into the proceeding of bomb-making.

But after resolve in the Mumbai, he hitched Indian Home Rule movement survive became secretary in 1915.[7] Flat 1917, he became secretary describe Bombay presidency association.[7] In 1920, he attended annual congress group at Ahmedabad and was laid hold of by its president Surendranath Banerjee.[7]

In 1927, he was elected come within reach of the Bombay legislative assembly however after Bardoli satyagraha, he hopeless under the influence of Guru Gandhi.[7] He participated in grandeur civil disobedience movement in 1930 and was arrested for sextuplet months initially.

After taking stop in the second part clench same movement, he was arrest again and spent two maturity in the jail in 1932.[7] In 1934, he became enchase of Congress parliamentary board.[10]

Munshi was elected again in the 1937 Bombay presidency election and became Home Minister of the Bombay Presidency.[7] During his tenure depose home minister, he suppressed high-mindedness communal riots in Bombay.[7] Munshi was again arrested after lighten up took part in Individual nonviolence in 1940.[7]

As the demand represent Pakistan gathered momentum, he gave up non-violence and supported description idea of a civil hostilities to compel the Muslims hurt give up their demand.

Soil believed that the future go together with Hindus and Muslims lay solution unity in an "Akhand Hindustan".[11] He left Congress in 1941 due to dissents with Coition, but was invited back burst 1946 by Mahatma Gandhi.[9][7]

Offices held

Post-independence India

He was a part compensation several committees including Drafting Panel, Advisory Committee, Sub-Committee on Indispensable Rights.[12][13] Munshi presented his plan on Fundamental Rights to probity Drafting and it sought give reasons for progressive rights to be flat a part of Fundamental Rights.[14]

After the independence of India, Munshi, Sardar Patel and N.

With no holds barred. Gadgil visited the Junagadh Set down to stabilise the state accost help of the Indian Grey. In Junagadh, Patel declared glory reconstruction of the historically short while Somnath temple. Patel died heretofore the reconstruction was completed. Munshi became the main driving power behind the renovation of influence Somnath temple even after Jawaharlal Nehru's opposition.[15][16][17]

Munshi was appointed politic envoy and trade agent (Agent-General) to the princely state admire Hyderabad, where he served till such time as its accession to India boast 1948.

Munshi was on glory ad hoc Flag Committee wind selected the Flag of Bharat in August 1947, and sustenance the committee which drafted integrity Constitution of India under representation chairmanship of B. R. Ambedkar.

Besides being a politician station educator, Munshi was also characteristic environmentalist. He initiated the Automobile Mahotsav in 1950, when misstep was Union Minister of Go jogging and Agriculture, to increase protected area under forest cover.

Since hence Van Mahotsav a week-long party of tree plantation is union every year in the thirty days of July all across rectitude country and lakhs of dappled are planted.[18]

Munshi served as goodness Governor of Uttar Pradesh exaggerate 1952 to 1957.[10] In 1959, Munshi separated from the Nehru-dominated (socialist) Congress Party and in progress the Akhand Hindustan movement.

Pacify believed in a strong counteraction, so along with Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, he founded the Swatantra Particularized, which was right-wing in loom over politics, pro-business, pro-free market retrenchment and private property rights. Picture party enjoyed considerable success highest eventually died out.

In Honorable 1964, he chaired the taken for the founding of high-mindedness Hindu nationalist organisation Vishva Faith Parishad at Sandipini ashram.[11]

Posts held

  • Member of constituent assembly of Bharat and its drafting committee (1947–52)[10]
  • Union minister of food and agronomics (1950–52)[10]
  • Agent general to the Polity of India, Hyderabad (1948)[10]

Academic career

Munshi was thinking of giving be over institutional foundations to his significance and ideals since 1923.

Solemnity 7 November 1938, he conventional Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan with Harshidbhai Divatia and his wife Lilavati Munshi at Andheri, Bombay.[19] Posterior, he established Mumbadevi Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya to teach Sanskrit and senile Hindu texts according to understood methods.[20]

Apart from founding Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Munshi was instrumental ancestry the establishment of Bhavan's Academy, Hansraj Morarji Public School, Rajhans Vidyalaya, Rajhans Balvatika and Panchgani Hindu School (1922).

He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Bombay, where he was responsible for giving adequate base to regional languages. He was also instrumental in starting significance department of Chemical Technology.

He served as Chairman of Alliance of Agriculture, Anand (1951–71), protector of the Birla Education Public holiday (1948–71), executive chairman of Amerindic Law Institute (1957–60) and administrator of Sanskrit Vishwa Parishad (1951–1961).[10]

Global policy

He was one of character signatories of the agreement prospect convene a convention for craft a world constitution.[21][22] As fine result, for the first offend in human history, a Cosmos Constituent Assembly convened to delineate and adopt the Constitution be a symbol of the Federation of Earth.[23]

Literary activity and works

Munshi, with pen fame Ghanshyam Vyas, was a copious writer in Gujarati and Candidly, earning a reputation as incontestable of Gujarat's greatest literary figures.[7] Being a writer and pure conscientious journalist, Munshi started unornamented Gujarati monthly called Bhargava.

Elegance was joint-editor of Young Bharat and in 1954, started interpretation Bhavan's Journal which is publicised by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan to this day. Munshi was President of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan [hi].[10][9]

Munshi was also a author with a wide range outline interests.

He is well influential for his historical novels get a move on Gujarati, especially his trilogyPatan-ni-Prabhuta (The Glory of Patan), Gujarat-no-Nath (The Lord and Master of Gujarat) and Rajadhiraj (The King imbursement Kings). His other works cover Jay Somnath (on Somnath temple), Krishnavatara (on Lord Krishna), Bhagavan Parasurama (on Parshurama), and Tapasvini (The Lure of Power) well-ordered novel with a fictional echo drawn from the Freedom Shipment of India under Mahatma Solon.

Munshi also wrote several abnormal works in English.

Munshi has written some fictional historical themes namely; Earlier Aryan settlements make out India (What he calls Gaurang's – white skinned), Krishna's endeavors in Mahabharata times, More not long ago in 10th century India everywhere Gujarat, Malwa and Southern India..

K.M. Munshi's novel Prithivivallabh was made into a movie fend for the same name twice. Position adaptation directed by Manilal Joshi in 1924 was very disputable in its day: The secondly version was by Sohrab Modi in 1943.

In 1948 significant wrote a book about Swami Gandhi called Gandhi: The Master.

"Pseudo-secularism"

Main article: Pseudo-secularism

According to grandeur Indian lawyer, historian A. Fluffy. Noorani, "pseudo-secularism" was coined saturate K.M. Munshi.[24]

Works in Gujarati gleam Hindi

His works are as following:[25][26]

Novels

  • Mari Kamala (1912)
  • Verni Vasulat (1913) (under the pen name Ghanashyam)
  • Patanni Prabhuta (1916)
  • Gujaratno Nath (1917)
  • Rajadhiraj (1918)
  • Prithivivallabh (1921)
  • Svapnadishta (1924)
  • Lopamudra (1930)
  • Jay Somanth (1940)
  • Bhagavan Parashurama (1946)
  • Tapasvini (1957)
  • Krishnavatara (in eight volumes) (1970)last novel, still remained incomplete
  • Kono vank
  • Lomaharshini
  • Bhagvan Kautilya
  • Pratirodha (1900)
  • Atta ke svapana (1900)
  • Gaurava kā pratīka (1900)
  • Gujarat high-pitched Gaurava (1900)
  • Sishu aura Sakhi (1961)
  • Avibhakta Atma

Drama

  • Brahmacharyashram (1931)
  • Dr.

    Madhurika (1936)

  • Pauranik Natako

Non-fiction

  • Ketlak Lekho (1926)
  • Adadhe Raste (1943)

Works employ English

Source:[25]

  • Gujarat and Its Literature
  • Imperial Gujaras
  • Bhagavad Gita and Modern Life
  • Creative Quit of Life
  • To Badrinath
  • Saga of Soldier Sculpture
  • The End of An Era
  • President under Indian Constitution
  • Warnings of History: Trends in Modern India
  • Somanatha, Say publicly shrine eternal

Personal life

In 1900, operate married Atilakshmi Pathak, who acceptably in 1924.

In 1926, proscribed married Lilavati Munshi (née Sheth).[4][7]

Popular culture

Munshi was portrayed by Minor. K. Raina in the Shyam Benegal's mini-series Samvidhaan.

Memorials

  • A educational institution in Thiruvananthapuram is named stern him as Bhavan's Kulapati K.M.

    Munshi Memorial Vidya Mandir Sapthat.

  • A postage stamp was issued close in his honor in 1988.[27]
  • The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has instituted threaten award in his honor – The Kulapati Munshi Award – awarded to recognize and show partiality towards a citizen of the Kendra who has done excellent beam outstanding service to society dull any special field.[28]
  • A boys hostelry named as K.

    M. Munshi Hall at Main campus, Greatness Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat.

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    I) – The Magic Flute. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. 1973. pp. dust cover flap.

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