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Garma
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A Saga of Sacrifice & Struggle |
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. LALA
JAGAT NARAIN
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Chopra Khatri by caste, he was born at Wazirabad, District
Gujranwala (now in Pakistan) in 1889. He graduated from D.A.V.
College, Lahore in 1919. After that he joined the Law College,
Lahore but left his studies in 1920 at the call of Mahatma
Gandhi and joined the non-cooperation movement. He was
arrested in 1921 and was sentenced in two and a half years’
imprisonment. In jail he stayed with Lala Lajpat Rai and other
leaders and acted as Lalaji’s Personal Secretary. In 1924 he
joined Bhai Parmanand’s Weekly Hindi Paper Akashvani as
Editor. He participated in all the Satyagraha movement
launched by the Congress under the leadership of Mahatma
Gandhi and was in jail for about nine years on different
occasions. His wife and other members of the family also
suffered on account of their participation in the freedom
movement. His wife was in jail for six months and so were his
minor sons and daughters. His eldest son, Ramesh Chandra, was
arrested in the Quit India movement and detained for a few
months. Source: chakdephate.com
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