Syama Prasad Mookerjee

Quotes

• “Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.”
• “A criticism with which we have become familiar in this country is that an alarmingly large number of students receiving university education, and the universities are responsible for wastage and unnecessary duplication of teaching arrangements…”
• “That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.”
• “You have drunk deep at the springs of western knowledge. While you will not hesitate to absorb for your benefit and for the national good the best elements in western culture and thought, you will not in any case permit the destruction of the vital elements of your own civilisation.”
• “I would also ask you to fulfil in an abundant measure your obligation for the revival of the glory of Hindu culture and civilisation, not from a narrow or bigoted point of view but for strengthening the very root of nationalism in this country. In this great land of ours where twenty-eight crores of Hindus live, the word Hindu sometimes stinks in the nostrils of many a son of India.”
• “Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive, but equality of opportunity for all, genuine freedom for self-fulfilment, in which all men irrespective of caste or creed may share.”

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Key facts

Succeeded by

Sadhan Gupta

Constituency

Calcutta South East , West Bengal

Prime minister

Jawaharlal Nehru

Preceded by

Position established

Born

( 1901-07-06 ) 6 July 1901, Calcutta , Bengal Presidency , British India , (present-day Kolkata , West Bengal , India )

Died

23 June 1953 (1953-06-23) (aged 51), Srinagar , Jammu and Kashmir , India

Party

Bharatiya Jana Sangh

Other political affiliations

Indian National Congress (1929–1930), Hindu Mahasabha (till 1948)

Spouse

Sudha Devi ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1922 ; died 1933 ) ​

Parent s

Ashutosh Mukherjee (father), Jogamaya Devi Mukherjee (mother)

Relatives

Chittatosh Mookerjee (nephew)

Alma mater

Presidency College ( BA , MA , LLB , D.Litt. ), Lincoln's Inn

Profession

Academician barrister politician activist

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