Prasad, Rajendra

Prasad, Rajendra

▪ president of India
born Dec. 3, 1884, Zeradei, India
died Feb. 28, 1963, Patna

      first president of the Republic of India (1950–62). A lawyer turned journalist, he was a comrade of Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand) in the earliest noncooperation movements for independence and was also president of the Congress Party (1934, 1939, and 1947).

      Raised in a landowning family of modest means, Prasad was a graduate of the Calcutta Law College. He practiced at the Calcutta High Court and in 1916 transferred to the Patna High Court and founded the Bihār Law Weekly. In 1917 he was recruited by Gandhi to help in a campaign to improve conditions for peasants exploited by British indigo planters in Bihār. He gave up his law practice in 1920 to join the Noncooperation Movement. Becoming an active journalist in the nationalist interest, he wrote for Searchlight in English, founded and edited the Hindi weekly Desh (“Country”), and started his lifelong campaign to establish Hindi as the national language. Imprisoned several times by the British for noncooperation activities, he served nearly three years (August 1942–June 1945) in jail with the Congress Party's Working Committee. In September 1946 he was sworn in as minister for food and agriculture in the interim government preceding full independence. From 1946 to 1949 he presided over the Indian Constituent Assembly and helped to shape the constitution. He was unanimously elected president in 1950 and, after the first general election (1952), was chosen by an overwhelming majority of the new electoral college; in 1957 he was elected to a third term.

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