C. Rajagopalachari

Also known as Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

Indian politician and activist (1878–1972)

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: India
Active from: 1878-12-10
Active to: 1972-12-25

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“There is no reality in the fond expectation that Britain will leave the country in simple response to a Congress slogan. Besides, by asking the British to leave, the Congress was issuing an open invitation to a colonising power more brutal by far, the Japanese.”
“Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved. It is the law and no statute can alter it. If we do not follow the law, and let the law die with the teacher, we shall become accomplices to the murderer. But if follow the law with our hearts, [Bapu] will live with us and through us.”
“If India's government is to be an institution integrated with her people's lives, if it is to be a true democracy and not a superimposed western institution staged in Indian dress, religion must have an important and recognized place in it with impartiality and reverence for all the creeds and denominations prevailing in India.”
“If civilization is to be bound up with material advancement, we must accept its inevitable consequence, loss of freedom in enact proportion to the forward march.”
“What is wanted to save parliamentary democracy is an opposition that will operate not privately and behind the closed doors of the party meeting, but openly and periodically through the electorate.”
“If we believe that God is everywhere… why should we not believe He is in objects to which so much concentrated devotion is attached? Christians believe in the doctrine of original sin. Hindus believe in the doctrine of acquired sin. But all of us believe that God, by whatever name we call Him, is in the world.”

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Key facts

Monarch: George VI
Prime minister: Jawaharlal Nehru
Preceded by: Louis Mountbatten
Succeeded by: Rajendra Prasad as President of India
Premier: Prafulla Chandra Ghosh , Bidhan Chandra Roy
Governor: The Lord Erskine
Constituency: Leader of the State Legislative Council
Born: Chakravarti Rajagopalachari , ( 1878-12-10 ) 10 December 1878, Thorapalli , Madras Presidency , British Raj
Died: 25 December 1972 (1972-12-25) (aged 94), Madras , Tamil Nadu , India
Resting place: Rajaji Memorial
Party: Swatantra Party (from 1959), Indian National Congress (1906-1942,1944-1957), Indian National Democratic Congress (1957–1959)
Spouse: Alamelu Mangalamma ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1897 ; died 1916 )
Relations: Devdas Gandhi (son-in-law), Mahatma Gandhi (affinal), Rajmohan Gandhi (grandson), Ramchandra Gandhi (grandson), Gopalkrishna Gandhi (grandson)
Children: 5, including C. R. Narasimhan
Alma mater: Bangalore University , Presidency College, Chennai
Profession: Lawyer Statesman Writer Indian independence activist
Language: Tamil English
Notable works: Chakravarti Thirumagan (Ramayana) Vyasar Virundhu (Mahabharata) Stories for the Innocent Hinduism; Doctrine and Way of Life

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Encyclopedic overview

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972), popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji (Rajaji, the Scholar Emeritus), 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 of these posts had been British nationals. He was an accomplished writer and one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. He was close to both Gandhi and Nehru. He vehemently opposed the use of nuclear weapons, and was a proponent of world peace and disarmament, until his death at the age of 94 in 1972.

Rajagopalachari also served—at different times—as leader of the Indian National Congress, Premier of the Madras Presidency, Governor of West Bengal (he was serving in this post when appointed by the King to take over from Lord Mountbatten), a member of the national cabinet as Minister for Home Affairs of the Indian Union, and as Chief Minister of Madras State. Rajagopalachari founded the Swatantra Party in 1959.

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