About:
Name:
Date & Place of Birth:
- October 26,
1890 – Hathgaon, Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Date & Place of Death:
- March 25,
1931, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Activity / Profession / Trait / Objective:
- Journalist
and Freedom Fighter
Nationality:
Introduction:
-
Founder-Editor of the Hindi
Newspaper ‘PRATAP’.
History & Achievements
·
He also was a leader of the Indian National Congress and an independence
movement activist.
·
Initially, he started as an agent of the revolutionary journals, viz.
Karmayogi and Swarajya. He also started soon to contribute to these
journals.
·
He adopted the penname 'Vidyarthi' by which he is popularly known.
·
In 1913 he came back to Kanpur only to work as a crusading journalist
and freedom fighter. Here he founded his famous revolutionary weekly
'PRATAP', which identified itself with the cause of the oppressed.
Through this very magazine, he waged his famous fights for the oppressed
peasants of Rae Bareli, the workers of the Kanpur mills and the
downtrodden people of Indian States.
·
In the process of his fights, he had to face numerous prosecutions, pay
heavy fines and suffer five prison sentences.
·
In 1920 he launched the daily edition of Pratap.
·
In 1929 he was elected the President of the U.P. Congress Committee and
was appointed the first 'dictator' to lead the Satyagrah movement in
U.P. in 1930, and was arrested and sent to jail again. He was released
on March 9, 1931 as a consequence of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
·
During an orgy of communal rioting in Kanpur in March, 1931, Ganesh
Shankar Vidyarthi threw himself in the midst of furious mobs and saved
the life of thousands of innocent persons belonging to both the Hindu
and Muslim communities. In the process, he was butchered to death.
Accolades, Awards, Honours and Recognitions
- The Ganesh
Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College Kanpur is named in
his remembrance.
-
Phool Bagh is also called as
Ganesh Vidyarthi Udyan.
-
The Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
Inter College (GSV Inter College, Kanpur) is named after him.
-
The Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi
Inter College (GSV Inter College Hathgaon-Fatehpur) is also named in
his remembrance.
Web Links for similar information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Shankar_Vidyarthi
Article by Prabhat K. Roy -
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