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Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji, was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and Indian independence activist. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, serving until the abolition of that office upon India becoming a republic in 1950. He was the only Indian-born Governor-General or Viceroy of India; all previous holders…
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Born 10 December 1878 · Died 25 December 1972 · Q378404
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I see that you are not able to restrain the policy of agitation over inter-provincial boundaries. It is easy to yield to the current pressure of opinion and it is difficult to impose on enthusiastic people any policy of restraint. But I earnestly plead that we should do all we can to prevent ill-will from hardening into a chronic disorder. We have enough ill-will and prejudice to cope with. Must we hasten to create further fissiparous forces?
India has totally lost the moral power to raise her voice against the use of military power.
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“I see that you are not able to restrain the policy of agitation over inter-provincial boundaries. It is easy to yield to the current pressure of opinion and it is difficult to impose on enthusiastic people any policy of restraint. But I earnestly plead that we should do all we can to prevent ill-will from hardening into a chronic disorder. We have enough ill-will and prejudice to cope with. Must we hasten to create further fissiparous forces?”
“India has totally lost the moral power to raise her voice against the use of military power.”
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Mint: British architect Lutyens' statue in Rashtrapati Bhavan to be replaced with C Rajagopalachari's
Asian News International: "Guiding light": VP Radhakrishnan pays tribute to C Rajagopalachari on his birth anniversary
Hindustan Times: HT This Day: April 10, 1952 -- C Rajagopalachari forms ministry in Madras
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The Financial Express: Mahatma Gandhi and C Rajagopalachari wrote with conviction, says Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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India.com: Narendra Modi pays tribute to great freedom fighter C. Rajagopalachari
Died 1972-12-25.
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And again prohibited by Karunanidhi in 1974 until it was reintroduced by M
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Rajagopalachari completely reversed his 1938 support for the introduction of Hindi and took a strongly anti-Hindi stand in support of the protests, coining the slogan 'English Ever, Hindi Never'
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Translated the Thirukkural into English and also wrote books on the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads in English as well as works on Socrates and Marcus Aurelius in Tamil
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Rajagopalachari criticized Operation Vijay, the Indian military action in which Portuguese rule in Goa was forcibly ended and the territory was incorporated into India, writing that India had "totally lost the moral powe
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Had translated Kambar's Tamil Ramayana into English
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The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan published his book: "Hinduism: Doctrine and Way of Life"
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Resigned from the Indian National Congress and founded the Swatantra Party, which fought against Congress in the 1962, 1967 and 1971 elections
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Awarded Sahitya Akademi Award (1958).
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Was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for works in the Tamil language for his retelling of the Ramayana – Chakravarti Thirumagan
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Awarded Bharat Ratna (1954).
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During US Vice-president Richard Nixon's nineteen country Asian tour, he was lectured by Rajagopalachari on the consuming emotional quality of nuclear weapons
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Introduced a new education scheme known as the "Modified Scheme of Elementary education 1953", which reduced schooling for elementary school students from five hours to three hours per day and suggested that boys to l
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(dubbed by its critics as Hereditary Education Policy) have been the target of extensive criticism
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Public resistance grew, particularly in response to initiatives that sought to establish Hindi as the national language
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Career landmark: Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1952–1954).
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Wrote an abridged retelling of the Mahabharata in English, followed by one of the Ramayana in 1957
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Career landmark: Minister of Home Affairs (1950–1951).
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Rajagopalachari joined the Union Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio where he served as a buffer between Nehru and Home Minister Sardar Patel and on occasion offered to mediate between the two
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Career landmark: Governor-General of India (1948–1950).
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Career landmark: Member of the Advisory Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India (1947).
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Career landmark: Governor of West Bengal (1947–1948).
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Rajagopalachari 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
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Career landmark: Member of the Constituent Assembly of India (1946).
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Elections followed in the Madras Presidency in 1946
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Proposed a solution to the Indian Constitutional tangle
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Congress ministers resigned in protest over the declaration of war on Germany without their consent, leaving the governor to take over the reins of the administration
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When Dalit members of the Madras Legislative Council proposed a Temple Entry Bill, Congress Prime Minister Rajagopalachari asked them to withdraw it
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Career landmark: Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1937–1939).
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Rajagopalachari was elected Prime minister of the Madras Presidency and served until 1940, when he resigned due to Britain's declaration of war on Germany
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Rajagopalachari was instrumental in getting the Indian National Congress to participate in the 1937 general elections
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Rajagopalachari risked imprisonment when he led the Vedaranyam Salt Satyagraha in response to the Dandi March
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Rajagopalachari broke the salt laws at Vedaranyam, near Nagapattinam, along with Indian independence activist Sardar Vedaratnam
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Rajagopalachari was a member of the Civil Disobedience Enquiry Committee
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Published Siraiyil Tavam (Meditation in jail), a day-to-day account of his first imprisonment by the colonial government from 21 December 1921 to 20 March 1922
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Was elected to the Congress Working Committee and served as the General Secretary of the party before making his first major breakthrough as a leader during the 1922 Indian National Congress session at Gaya when he st
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Rajagopalachari became one of his followers
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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
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Defended Indian independence activist P
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A group that coined new words in Tamil for terms connected to botany, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics
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Whereupon Rajagopalachari took sole responsibility for the care of his children
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When she was ten years old and she gave birth to her son a day after her thirteenth birthday
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And graduated in arts from Central College, Bangalore in 1894
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Born 1878-12-10.
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