Shyama Prasad Mukherji College of University of Delhi was established in 1969 in his memory. On 7 August 1998, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation named a bridge after Mukherjee. Delhi has a major road named after Mukherjee called Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Marg. Kolkata, too, has a major road called Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road. In 2001, the main research funding institute of the Government of India, CSIR, instituted a new fellowship named after him. On 22 April 2010, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) newly constructed Rs. 650-crore building, the tallest building in Delhi, was named the Doctor Syama Prasad Mukherjee Civic Centre.
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Syama Prasad Mukherjee
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Legacy
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He was an Indian politician, barrister and academician, who served as the Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet
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Syama Prasad Mukherjee (6 July 1901 – 23 June 1953) was an Indian politician, barrister and academician, who served as the Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet. After falling out with Nehru, protesting against the Nehru-Liaquat Pact, Mukherjee resigned from Nehru's cabinet. With the help of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, he founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party, in 1951. He was also the president of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha from 1943 to 1946.. He died in the custody of Jammu and Kashmir Police in 1953. He was provisionally diagnosed of a heart attack and shifted to a hospital but died a day later.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Introduction
Shyama Prasad refused to remarry after her death. He had two sons, Anutosh and Debatosh, and two daughters, Sabita and Arati. His grandniece Kamala Sinha served as the Minister of State for External affairs in the I. K. Gujral ministry. Syama Prasad was also affiliated with the Buddhist Mahabodhi Society. In 1942, he succeeded Dr. M.N. Mukherjee to become the president of the organisation. The relics of Gautam Buddha's two disciples Sariputta and Maudgalyayana, discovered in the Great Stupa at Sanchi by Sir Alexander Cunningham in 1851 and kept at the British Museum, were brought back to India by HMIS Tir.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Personal life
In 2004, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had claimed that he was murdered in a "Nehru conspiracy". Since the Bharatiya Janata Party is the successor to the Bhartiya Jana Sangh, Mukherjee is also regarded as the founder of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Introduction
The doctor, however, told him that new information about the drug had come to light and assured him that he would be fine. On 22 June, he felt pain in the heart region, started perspiring and started feeling like he was fainting. He was later shifted to a hospital and provisionally diagnosed with a heart attack. He died a day later. The state government declared that he had died on 23 June at 3:40 a.m. due to a heart attack. His death in custody raised wide suspicion across the country and demands for an independent inquiry were raised, including earnest requests from his mother, Jogamaya Devi, to Nehru.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Death
Mukherjee was firmly against their joint pact to establish minority commissions and guarantee minority rights in both countries as he thought it left Hindus in East Bengal to the mercy of Pakistan. While addressing a rally in Calcutta on 21 May, he stated that an exchange of population and property at governmental level on regional basis between East Bengal and the states of Tripura, Assam, West Bengal and Bihar was the only option in the current situation. Mukherjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh on 21 October 1951 in Delhi, becoming its first president. In the 1952 elections, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) won three seats in the Parliament of India, including Mukherjee's.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Political career after independence
A ceremony attended by politicians and leaders of many foreign countries was held on the next day at Calcutta Maidan. They were handed over by Nehru to Mukherjee, who later took these relics to Cambodia, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam. Upon his return to India, he placed the relics inside the Sanchi Stupa in November 1952.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Personal life
Shyama Prasad Mukherji College of University of Delhi was established in 1969 in his memory. On 7 August 1998, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation named a bridge after Mukherjee. Delhi has a major road named after Mukherjee called Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Marg. Kolkata, too, has a major road called Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road. In 2001, the main research funding institute of the Government of India, CSIR, instituted a new fellowship named after him. On 22 April 2010, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) newly constructed Rs. 650-crore building, the tallest building in Delhi, was named the Doctor Syama Prasad Mukherjee Civic Centre.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Legacy
During his tenure, his statements against the government were censored and his movements were restricted. He was also prevented from visiting the Midnapore district in 1942 when severe floods caused a heavy loss of life and property. He resigned on 20 November 1942 accusing the British government of trying to hold on to India under any cost and criticised its repressive policies against the Quit India Movement. After resigning, he mobilised support and organised relief with the help of Mahabodhi Society, Ramakrishna Mission and Marwari Relief Society. In 1946, he was again elected as an independent candidate from the Calcutta University.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Political career before independence
The prime minister declared that he had asked a number of persons who were privy to the facts and, according to him, there was no mystery behind Mukherjee's death. Devi did not accept Nehru's reply and requested an impartial inquiry. Nehru, however, ignored the letter and no inquiry commission was set up. Mukherjee's death, therefore, remains a matter of some controversy. S.C. Das claims that Mukherjee was murdered. Atal Bihari Vajpayee claimed in 2004 that the arrest of Mukherjee in Jammu and Kashmir was a "Nehru conspiracy". However, while the BJP in 2011 called for an inquiry to probe Mukherjee's death, no investigation was launched after the BJP took office in 2014.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Death
It was inaugurated by Home Minister P. Chidambaram. The building, which is estimated to cater to 20,000 visitors per day, will also house different wings and offices of the MCD. The MCD also built the Syama Prasad Swimming Pool Complex which hosted aquatic events during the 2010 Commonwealth Games held at New Delhi. In 2012, a flyover at Mathikere in Bangalore City Limits was inaugurated and named the Dr Syamaprasad Mukherjee Flyover. The International Institute of Information Technology, Naya Raipur is named after him.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Legacy
He was arrested on 11 May at Lakhanpur while crossing the border into Kashmir illegally. Although the ID card rule was revoked owing to his efforts, he died as a detainee on 23 June 1953 under mysterious circumstances. On 5 August 2019, when Government of India proposed constitutional Amendment to repeal Article 370, many newspapers described the event as realization of Syama Prasad Mukherjee's dream.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Opinion on special status of Jammu and Kashmir
He was elected as a member of the Constituent Assembly of India in the same year.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Political career before independence
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru inducted Mukherjee into the Interim Central Government as a Minister for Industry and Supply on 15 August 1947. Mukherjee began to have differences with Mahasabha after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, in which the organisation was blamed by Sardar Patel for creating the atmosphere that led to the killing. Mukherjee suggested the organisation suspend its political activities. Shortly after it did, in December 1948, he left. One of his reasons was the rejection of his proposal to allow non-Hindus to become members. Mukherjee resigned along with K.C. Neogy from the Cabinet on 8 April 1950 over a disagreement about the 1950 Delhi Pact with Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Political career after independence
Venkatarama Sastri died on 2 July 1953. On his death, the then Chief Minister of Madras state, C. Rajagopalachari said:
T. R. Venkatarama Sastri | Death and legacy
Later he settled down in Bhawanipore area of Kolkata. He enrolled in Bhawanipur's Mitra Institution in 1906 and his behaviour in school was later described favourably by his teachers. In 1914, he passed his matriculation examination and was admitted into Presidency College. He stood seventeenth in the Inter Arts Examination in 1916and graduated in English, securing the first position in first class in 1921. He was married to Sudha Devi on 16 April 1922. Mukherjee also completed an MA in Bengali, being graded as first class in 1923 and also became a fellow of the Senate in 1923. He completed his BL in 1924.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Early life and academic career
Syama Prasad had three brothers who were: Rama Prasad who was born in 1896, Uma Prasad who was born in 1902 and Bama Prasad Mukherjee who was born in 1906. Rama Prasad became a judge in High Court of Calcutta while Uma became famed as a trekker and a travel writer. He also had three sisters who were: Kamala who was born in 1895, Amala who was born in 1905 and Ramala in 1908. He was married to Sudha Devi for 11 years and had five children – the last one, a four-month-old son, died from diphtheria. His wife died of double pneumonia shortly afterwards in 1933 or 1934.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Personal life
He died on 22 December 1970. In 2013, Gregory's Road in Colombo was renamed "R G Senanayake Mawatha" in his memory.
Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake | Death and legacy
Mukherjee was arrested upon entering Kashmir on 11 May 1953. He and two of his arrested companions were first taken to Central Jail of Srinagar. Later they were transferred to a cottage outside the city. Mukherjee's condition started deteriorating and he started feeling pain in the back and high temperature on the night between 19 and 20 June. He was diagnosed with dry pleurisy from which he had also suffered in 1937 and 1944. The doctor Ali Mohammad prescribed him a streptomycin injection and powders, however, Mukherjee informed him that his family physician had told him that streptomycin did not suit his system.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Death
G. Krishnamurti. He died on 10, May 1974 at the age of sixty nine in Bangalore.
S. Srikanta Sastri | Legacy
Pattani died in 1938 as a result of cardiac arrest.
Prabhashankar Pattani | Death and legacy
Mukherjee started his political career in 1929, when he entered the Bengal Legislative Council as an Indian National Congress (INC) candidate representing Calcutta University. However, he resigned the next year when the INC decided to boycott the legislature. Subsequently, he contested the election as an independent candidate and was elected in the same year. In 1937, he was elected as an independent candidate in the elections which brought the Krishak Praja Party-All India Muslim League coalition to power. He served as the Finance Minister of Bengal Province in 1941–42 under A.K. Fazlul Haq's Progressive Coalition government which was formed on 12 December 1941 after the resignations of the Congress government.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Political career before independence
By the 1980s the latter had virtually disappeared. Although disillusioned with the state of the Congress (I) Party, he remained an optimist to the end. One of his last acts, a fortnight before he died, was to participate, sitting in a wheelchair, in a Congress (I)-sponsored march in Calcutta to protest the state's Communist Party of India-led government.
Prafulla Chandra Sen | Political legacy
Mukherjee was a professor at Calcutta University and held the Carmichael chair of the Ancient Indian History and Culture from 1975 to 1998. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, UK. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1992. He was the president of the Indian History Congress and was a recipient of the H. C. Raychaudhuri Centenary Medal of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata. Mukherjee died on 4 April 2013, at the age of 79, survived by his wife and son.
B. N. Mukherjee | Honours
Sen died on 22 July 1982 from a heart attack. The department of cardiothoracic surgery at KEM was founded by him and now bears his name. As a past president of the Association of Surgeons of India, the "Dr P. K. Sen memorial oration" was established in his honour in 1993 by the Indian Association of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgeons.
P. K. Sen (surgeon) | Death and legacy
Mujherjee died on 13 November 1956 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), at the age of 47. Guru Dutt's "Kaagaz Ke Phool" (1959) is considered to be an homage to Mukherjee.
Gyan Mukherjee | Death
In 2008, his death anniversary on 14 February was observed as 'flag day' by Communist Party of India (CPI) at its State conference at Thiruvananthapuram
R. Sugathan | Legacy
He died on 24 January 1991, at the age of 71.
Sarashi Ranjan Mukherjee | Introduction
In 2002, he suffered a heart attack. Even with failing health attended the 17th Party Congress in March 2002 at Hyderabad. Till his death, he was a permanent invitee to the Central Committee of the party, and lived in the Dilkhusha Street party commune in South Kolkata. He died on 18 July 2013 at Kolkata, after being admitted to the hospital the day before.
Samar Mukherjee | Death
In 1932, he was elected president of the Calcutta Mathematical Society. He served in this capacity until his death from heart failure in 1937. Mukhopadhyaya went to Europe on a Ghose Travelling Fellowship in 1933 to study methods of education. He gave lectures in Paris University.
Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya | Biography
His legacy is being carried on by his son Samrat Pandit who launched his solo career in 2001.
Jagdish Prasad | Legacy
He died on 27 October 1977, two years after the death of his wife. His work was continued by his brother Sahu Shreyans Prasad Jain and also his son Sahu Ashok Kumar Jain. Today the Times Group that runs Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. has turned out to be a huge media empire with interest in newspaper, radio, TV and internet and run by his grandsons Sahu Samir Jain and Sahu Vineet Jain.
Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain | Legacy
Jamini Bhushan Ray suddenly died in Calcutta on 11 August 1926 – just a day after he donated 200,000 Rupees to his beloved Ashtanga Ayurveda Vidyalaya. He was just 47 years old. In his honour a road in Calcutta, not far from Ashtanga Ayurveda Hospital, has been named Jamini Kaviraj Row. 7 years after his death – in his garden house at Patipukur, was established Patipukur TB Hospital. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, eminent physician, freedom fighter and later Chief Minister of West Bengal, laid the foundation stone.
Jamini Bhushan Ray | Death and legacy
Ranade died in Madras (now Chennai) on 22 August 1982. On 23 August 1982, he was cremated at Vivekanandapuram, Kanyakumari.
Eknath Ranade | Death and legacy
Mukherjee died on 4 March 2000, following a massive heart-attack. At the time of death, she was 76 years old. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then Prime Minister of India, told in his condolence message— "Mrs. Mukherjee embodied determination and dedication. She was a shining example of women's empowerment. Her life shall remain an inspiration for future generations, especially women."
Geeta Mukherjee | Death
He died of a heart attack on 10 April 2008 at the age of 64.
Shomu Mukherjee | Introduction
In his last chapter of life, after retiring from the BHU in 1956, Sundaram and his wife Savitri moved to Bombay and spent their final years together with their eldest son. Sundaram died in Bombay on 11 March 1967.
V. A. Sundaram | Personal life and legacy
When he died in 1979, he was survived by his wife, Jyotilata Majumdar, a son, Air Commodore S K Majumdar and two daughters, Gauri Bhattacharyya and Roma Mukherjee.
S. K. Majumdar | Family
Mall Babu was such a disciplined person that he didn't fell ill in his lifetime. Till the age of 84 years his physique was in greater shape. However, in the age of 85 he got a premonition of his death and according to his wish he was shifted to holy city of Varanasi, where he died on 4 June 1949. Mall Babu had few disciples who carried forward his legacy. Rajnarayan Rai was his most favorite, who floored Imam Bakhs Pahalwan (younger brother of The Great Gama) in Jhariya (Jharkhand) within 5 minutes of bouts. Gama was so shocked with this defeat that he started crying.
Hari Narayan Singh | Death and legacy
He died in 1948. The Horniman Circle Gardens in Mumbai, formerly the Elphinstone Circle, were named in his honour. His memoirs, unfinished at the time of his death, were entitled "Fifty Years of Journalism".
B. G. Horniman | Death and legacy
He was struck with Paralysis in 1863, went home to Dublin but could not stand inactivity and returned to India, where after a short resumption of his duties his health entirely gave way and he finally sank. He died on 10 May 1866. In an article from a newspaper it was mentioned: "By the death of Mr. J.G. Medlicott the Government loses one of its few enthusiastic servants, and India one of its few scientific men." Another newspaper article in the "Pioneer" says: "The deceased gentleman was an accomplished scholar and an able writer and his death is a public loss to the literary world of India." He was survived by his wife Agnes and son Samuel.
Joseph G. Medlicott | Death and legacy
When asked about the reason, he said as he no longer is a minister, all expenses will have to be paid by himself and that as an MP and minister he didn't earn enough to save for time of need. Although Shastri had been a cabinet minister for many years in the 1950s, he was poor when he died. All he owned at the end was an old car, which he had bought in instalments from the government and for which he still owed money. He was a member of Servants of India society (which included Gandhi, Lala Lajpat Rai, Gopal Krishna Gokhle) which asked all its members to shun accumulation of private property and remain in public life as servants of the people.
Lal Bahadur Shastri | Legacy
He lived in Bagbazar, north Calcutta, and died on 4 July 1927 in Bankura.
Kshirode Prasad Vidyavinode | Later life
In 1995, the Government of Bangladesh issued a commemorative stamp in his name on 14 December, Martyred Intellectuals Day. The library of Jagannath Hall has been renamed to Shahid Anudvaipayan Pathagar.
Anudvaipayan Bhattacharya | Legacy
He died in May 2006, and is survived by six children, and grandchildren.
Rajendra Prasad Das | Personal life
On 21 July 1955, Shri C. Rajam died at the age of 73. Sri Prakasa, Governor, C. Rajagopalachari, Kasturi Srinivasan, C. R. Srinivasan, C. Subramaniam and M. Bhaktavatsalam, among others, offered their condolences to the family at his residence. One of the granddaughter of Rajam, Dr. Prema Srinivasan is a famous author and a regular reviewer of children's books in the newspaper "The Hindu".
Chinnaswami Rajam | Death and legacy
When Chowdhury fell ill, due to lack of necessary funds for proper treatment he was not allotted a seat in any ward of PG Hospital. He died on 10 January 1991. His daughter, advocate Amatul Kibria Keya Chowdhury represented Habiganj district as a Member of Parliament.
Manik Chowdhury | Death and legacy
After his death his multigym is run by his son Moloy Roy, a recipient of the Arjuna Award and eight time Mr. India. After his death the Sports Minister and PWD Minister visited his residence and promised them to rename the Barrackpore Trunk Road after him.
Monotosh Roy | Legacy
He died in Kolkata on 29 January 1976.
Achintya Kumar Sengupta | Death
India's first President, Dr Rajendra Prasad, was one of Ramavtar's favourite students. It was he who was instrumental in getting several of Sarma's books into print. An article on Ramavtar Sarma entitled 'India's Greatest Forgotten Genius' by Shruti Shukla first appeared in "The Hindustan Times", Patna Edition, dated 5 September 1986.
Ram Avatar Sharma | Legacy
Sir Shri Ram dies in Delhi on 11 January 1963 at the age of 79. On the death of Sir Shri Ram, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the then President of India said, “He was not only a great industrialist but helped many good causes. His contributions to education are memorable”.
Lala Shri Ram | Death and legacy
In opposition to this decision, he entered Kashmir on 11 May 1953. Thereafter, he was arrested and jailed in a dilapidated house. Syama Prasad had suffered from dry pleurisy and coronary troubles, and was taken to hospital one and a half months after his arrest due to complications arising from the same. He was administered penicillin despite having informed the doctor-in-charge of his allergy to penicillin, and he died on 23 June 1953. Mookherjee's death later compelled Nehru to remove Permit system, post of "Sadar-e-Riayasat" and of Prime Minister of Jammu & Kashmir.
Hindu nationalism | Mookerjee
Govindan, Sukumar Azhikode, M. K. Sanu and M. V. Devan, in preparing propaganda materials the government. He wrote a play, "Vishsvruksham" (The Poisonous Tree), which was staged in 1958 and contributed to strengthening the mass protests which eventually led to the dismissal of the democratically elected government.
C. J. Thomas | Legacy
He died of heart attack on 7-July-2006. He was survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. Then Chief Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy, Pradesh Congress Committee President Mallikarjun Kharge and other senior Congress leaders paid homage to the departed soul.
S. Ramesh | Death
He died on Saturday, 28 May 2005 at his residence at B-52, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi.
Gopal Prasad Vyas | Death
It is an important commercial centre today.
P. Theagaraya Chetty | Death and legacy
Sambhu Prasad died on Thursday 8 June 1972 at Chennai.
S. Sambhu Prasad | Death
Syama Prasad Mukherjee was born in a Bengali Brahmin family on 6 July 1901 in Calcutta (Kolkata). His family originally hailed from Jirat, Hooghly District, West Bengal. His grandfather Ganga Prasad Mukherjee was born in Jirat, Hooghly District and he was first in the family who came to Calcutta and settled here. Syama Prasad's father was Ashutosh Mukherjee, a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, Bengal, who was also Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta. His mother was Jogamaya Devi Mukherjee. He was a very meritorious student and he came to Kolkata to study in Medical College with the help of the wealthy people of Jirat.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Early life and academic career
He died during the Coup d'État de Yanaon on Sunday, 13 June 1954 at the age of 78 years. It was declared that he was killed by Indian Military while seizing Yanam. But it is still a mystery about the actual causes and real persons behind his death.
Samatam Kistaya | Death
Chowdhury died on 15 December 1940. There is an Institution in Pangsha named Yakub Ali Chowdhuri Biddapith. His literary works were included in the curriculum of school level, secondary, higher secondary and graduation level Bengali Literature in Bangladesh.
Mohammad Yakub Ali Chowdhury | Death and legacy
Ramarayaningar died on 16 December 1928 of influenza. He was succeeded as the President of the Justice Party by B. Munuswamy Naidu. On his death, leading newspapers and magazines poured accolades on him. S. Srinivasa Iyengar, a political opponent of the Raja, said of him: "The Hindu" paid rich tributes to the Raja:
Panaganti Ramarayaningar | Death and legacy
Radhika's nephew and disciple Pandit Jnanendra Prasad Goswamy along with many others carried out his legacy and teachings.
Radhika Prasad Goswamy | Legacy
Sengupta died on 2 November 1919 in Kolkata, West Bengal, British India. His son, Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, became a famous politician of Bengal.
Jatra Mohan Sengupta | Death
He died due to the heat of June in 1972 in New Delhi. Today, except his literal works, nothing belonging to him is traceable. Neshta, the Punjab's most ancient village lies neglected with his house ruined. His two sisters are unknown. Nobody knows where they live.
Bawa Balwant | Legacy
Several institutions are named after Shriyans Prasad Jain:
Shreyans Prasad Jain | Legacy
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said: "Acharya Narnedra Dev was one of the greatest sons of India and the nation owes a great debt to him." The Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology was named in his honour in 1975. In an emotional obituary in Rajya Sabha, Jawaharlal Nehru said:
Narendra Deva | Legacy
Pranab Mukherjee, President of India, 2012-2017, was born on 11 December 1935 and spent his childhood at Mirati. He died on 31 August 2020.
Mirati | Pranab Mukherjee
Mukherjee demanded the partition of Bengal in 1946 to prevent the inclusion of its Hindu-majority areas in a Muslim-dominated East Pakistan. A meeting held by the Mahasabha on 15 April 1947 in Tarakeswar authorised him to take steps for ensuring partition of Bengal. In May 1947, he wrote a letter to Lord Mountbatten telling him that Bengal must be partitioned even if India was not. He also opposed a failed bid for a united but independent Bengal made in 1947 by Sarat Bose, the brother of Subhas Chandra Bose, and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, a Bengali Muslim politician. His views were strongly affected by the Noakhali genocide in East Bengal, where mobs belonging to the Muslim League massacred Hindus.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Leader of the Hindu Mahasabha
Following the Hindu Mahasabha's official decision to boycott the Quit India movement and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's decision of non-participation in the movement, as Gandhi wanted British government to transfer its entire power to the Muslim League. Mukherjee wrote a letter to Sir John Herbert, Governor of Bengal as to how they should respond to "Quit India" movement. In this letter, dated 26 July 1942 he wrote: Let me now refer to the situation that may be created in the province as a result of any widespread movement launched by the Congress. Anybody, who during the war, plans to stir up mass feeling, resulting internal disturbances or insecurity, must be resisted by any Government that may function for the time being
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Opposition to Quit India Movement
Syama Prasad Mukherjee, who served as its president in 1944 and joined the Jawaharlal Nehru Cabinet after independence, was a Hindu traditionalist politician who wanted to uphold Hindu values but not necessarily to the exclusion of other communities. He asked for the membership of Hindu Mahasabha to be thrown open to all communities. When this was not accepted, he resigned from the party and founded a new political party in collaboration with the RSS. He understood Hinduism as a nationality rather than a community but, realising that this is not the common understanding of the term "Hindu", he chose "Bharatiya" instead of "Hindu" to name the new party, which came to be called the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
Hindutva | Adoption
He never felt easy with modern Congress leaders and went into self-imposed exile from politics. As he was a man of public, he could never accept this state of seclusion and fell ill. He lived in Kotdwar Garhwal for most of this period. After a short illness he died on 24 December 1980.
Ram Prasad Nautiyal | Death
After his death the street in Calcutta adjacent to Netaji Bhawan, into which he turned when driving his uncle Subhas out of the house during his escape, was renamed Sisir Kumar Bose Sarani.
Sisir Kumar Bose | Legacy
He died on September 16, 1944. He planned the campus of BHU and its construction was also done under his supervision. He helped a lot of Madan Mohan Malaviya in collecting donations .
Raja Jwala Prasad | Life
On 14 December 1951, Mohan Shumsher went into self-imposed exile in India, and died in Bangalore in 1967, aged 81.
Mohan Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana | Death
Nearly two decades after his death the Gramophone Company of India releases at least one album by Hemanta Mukhopadhyay every year, repackaging his older songs, because of the commercial viability of his songs. His legacy still lives on through the songs he has recorded, music he has composed, and through many male singers in Bengal and the rest of India who continue to imitate/emulate his singing style.
Hemanta Mukherjee | Legacy
However, his health worsened weeks later. On 18 January 1963, he died at his modest home at Tambaram, near Chennai. About two lakh (200,000) people attended his funeral and paid their last respects to one who had toiled all his life for the common man, who symbolised the simplicity of Gandhism and who had a Periyar-like zest for social equality and the Marxist spirit to fight exploitation.
P. Jeevanandham | Later years
Siddiqi died on 26 July 2013 in Bangalore following a freak road accident on 21 July 2013 which caused severe damage to the brain. He is survived by his wife Asiya, sons Imran and Kaleem, and daughters Yumna and Diba.
Obaid Siddiqi | Legacy
He had formed the National Democratic Party within the Parliament. It consisted of 32 members of the Lok Sabha and 10 members of the Rajya Sabha; however, it was not recognised by the speaker as an opposition party. The BJS was created with the objective of nation-building and "nationalising" all non-Hindus by "inculcating Bharatiya Culture" in them. The party was ideologically close to the RSS and widely considered the proponent of Hindu nationalism.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee | Political career after independence
On , his renal parameters became "slightly deranged", with the condition worsening days later. Mukherjee died on 31 August 2020, aged 84, which was confirmed by his son Abhijit Mukherjee via Twitter. His death came after the attending hospital confirmed that his health had deteriorated early that day, stating that he had been in septic shock since a day earlier, which was caused by his lung infection.
Pranab Mukherjee | Illness and death
The Paschimbanga Itihas Samsad (Bengali পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইতিহাস সংসদ), in collaboration with Presidency University, Kolkata (erstwhile Presidency College), has been organizing a lecture series in Sarkar's memory since 1994..
Susobhan Sarkar | Legacy
In 1931, he was appointed member of the new Indian Military College Committee. During his later years, he expressed strong disapproval of any attempt to partition the subcontinent. Sivaswami Iyer died in his Madras home on 5 November 1946 at the age of 82. On his death, the Lady Sivaswami Iyer girls school was named after him in his memory.
P. S. Sivaswami Iyer | Later life and death
Mukherjee married Jogamaya Devi in 1885. The couple had seven children, Kamala (born 1895), Rama Prasad (1896-1983), Syama Prasad (1901-1953), Uma Prasad (1902-1997), Amala (born 1905), Bama Prasad (born 1906) and Ramala (born 1908). His son Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the most notable of his children, founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the direct precursor to the modern Bharatiya Janata Party. Rama Prasad became a judge in the High Court of Calcutta while Uma Prasad became famed as a himalayan trekker and a travel writer. His grandson Chittatosh Mookerjee was the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court.
Ashutosh Mukherjee | Personal life
Govindram Seksaria died in 1946 at the age of 58. All the major markets in Mumbai, including the bullion exchange, cotton exchange and stock exchange remained closed that day as a tribute to this leader of industry. He established many schools and colleges and this trend continued with his son, the late Kudilalji Seksaria, who donated toward the Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science. His sons, Rajkumar Seksaria and Nandkumar Seksaria, in turn, went on to establish the Govindram Seksaria Institute of Management and Research.
Govindram Seksaria | Death and legacy
On 26 December 2017 his condition deteriorated and he finally died in a peaceful state., seven days before his 85th birthday
Devendra Prasad Gupta | Death
Chowdhury died in 1991 while in office. His son, Noor-E-Alam Chowdhury Liton, served was elected Member of parliament from Madaripur-1 after his death. Ilias Ahmed Chowdhury Degree College is a college in Madaripur District named after him.
Ilias Ahmed Chowdhury | Death and legacy
Krishna Dasgupta died in 2013 in Kolkata. One of her students, Nandini Chakraborty, the daughter of renowned cinematographer Ramananda Sengupta, has created a documentary on her life, "Harano Sur".
Krishna Dasgupta | Death and Legacy
Basu died on 20 June 1910. He heavily influenced Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, an important figure of the Bengal Renaissance.
Chandranath Basu | Death and legacy
Swaraj Mukherjee (1941/42 – 6 April 2003) was an Indian politician belonging to Trinamool Congress. He was elected as a legislator of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Uttarpara in 2001. He died on 6 April 2003 at the age of 61.
Swaraj Mukherjee | Introduction
Virjanand died on 14 September 1868, at the age of 90. On 14 September 1971, the Post and Telegraph Department of India released a stamp in his honor depicting the swami in a sitting posture.
Virajanand Dandeesha | Death and legacy
After leaving Banaras Hindu University, he returned to Chandigarh, where he died on February 14, 1971. The Central Library of Panjab University, Chandigarh, is named in his honour as A C Joshi Library.
A C Joshi | Death and legacy
In November 1971 he had a heart attacked. He moved to independent Bangladesh after the war on 31 January 1972. He died on 12 May 1972. His son Badruddoza Chowdhury would become the 13th President of Bangladesh for a short stint of only six(6) and a half months.
Kafiluddin Chowdhury | Death and legacy
A statue was erected In his memory in 1984 on the Gostho Pal Sarani in Kolkata.
Gostha Pal | Legacy
He died on 15 July 2019.
N. J. Rao | Introduction
A commemorative coin in his honour, was released by the Government of India in August 2010. A commemorative postage stamp was also released in his honour in 2010.
Chidambaram Subramaniam | Legacy
Sastry died at the age of 96 on 27 July 2016, due to prolonged illness. He is survived by his wife, three daughters and a son.
P. V. Parabrahma Sastry | Death and legacy
He suffered from multiple asthma attacks and suspected heart failure, and therefore took a leave from work in 1874. However, he died the same year in Kensington, aged 48, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in West London. At the CMC, he was succeeded by R. C. Chandra.
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty | Death and legacy
He died in 1956 at his Raigarh bungalow survived by wife and several sons and daughters.
Jairam Valjee Chouhan | Death
Subrahmanya Sastri died on 20 May 1978 at Tiruvaiyaru. An Endowment has been created in his name in 1997 at the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute and every year lecture is being arranged under this Endowment.
P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri | Death
Mujeeb died in 1985, at the age of 83.Jamia Millia Islamia has instituted an annual oration, "Professor Mohammad Mujeeb Memorial Lecture", in Mujeeb's honour.
Mohammad Mujeeb | Death and Legacy
In September 1966, C. P. left for England to conduct research on a planned book titled "A History of My Times" at the India Office library. At about 11:30 am, on 26 September 1966, he was in the National Liberal Club (where he had been a member for over 50 years), when he suddenly slumped on his armchair while speaking to a reporter and died instantly. The following day, "The Times" carried the news of his death: Condolences were also offered by C. Rajagopalachari, Zakir Hussain, the then President of India, "The Hindu", "The Times of India", Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi and K.
C. P. Ramaswami Iyer | Death
Rao died on 12 December 1985, at which point he was, according to Andre Beteille, "at the height of his professional career". Following his death, a memorial scholarship and an academic award were named for him.
M. S. A. Rao | Death and legacy