C. Rajagopalachari

About C. Rajagopalachari: 

• Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, popularly referred to as Rajaji, was born on 10 December 1878 in Thorapalli, Tamil Nadu.

Role in India’s Independence Movement

• Rajaji’s personal interaction with Gandhi in 1919 led him to give up his legal profession to be fully involved in the nation’s independence struggle.
• He participated in agitations against the Rowlett Act, the Non-Cooperation movement, the Vaikom Satyagraha, and the Civil Disobedience Movement.
• For these activities, between 1912 and 1941, as a result of which he was jailed five times.
• Rajaji was elected to the Constituent Assembly from Madras on a Congress party ticket. In the Assembly, he intervened on the issues of religious freedom and citizenship.
• In 1954 he was conferred with the Bharat Ratna for his contribution to Indian politics and literature.

Key Writings

• Rajaji was a prolific writer. His most popular works include a retelling of the Mahabharata and Ramayana in English, and Ramayana – Chakravarti Thirumagan in Tamil.

Q1: What is Vaikom Satyagraha?

It was a social reform movement which originated and took its place at Vaikom, then part of the princely state of Travancore, in Kottayam district of Kerala, during the period of 1924-1925. It was the dawn of temple entry movements in India

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