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Chakravarti Rajagopalachari BR (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.
C. Rajagopalachari (aka Rajaji) was the Prime Minister of the erstwhile Madras Presidency and the Chief Minister of Madras State of Independent India. He was the first Indian National Congress member to assume office in Madras Presidency. He served as the head of government for two terms spanning about five years.
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari was the only Indian governor-general of independent India. He was a founder and leader of the Swatantra (Independent) Party in 1959. Leaving a lucrative law practice, Rajagopalachari edited Mohandas K. Gandhi’s paper Young India while Gandhi was in prison in the early.
Jun 3, 2021 · The party he founded was a counter-weight to Nehru’s socialist and statist vision for a newly Independent India. Rajaji, on the other hand, believed in a market-based economy and a liberal approach. What followed is the remarkable tale of the dramatic rise and fall of the Swatantra Party.
Jun 5, 2024 · C. Rajagopalachari was an Indian lawyer, independence activist, politician and writer. He was the first and last Indian Governor General of India after Lord Mountbatten left India in 1948. Although Sardar Patel was the initial choice but on the insistence of the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, he was made the Governor General.
Apr 22, 2023 · C. Rajagopalachari, fondly known as Rajaji, was a prominent Indian statesman, lawyer, writer, and independence activist who played a crucial role in the Indian freedom struggle.
Popularly referred to as ‘Rajaji’, a prominent Indian statesman who was a firm Gandhian and a member of the Indian National Congress.
May 21, 1999 · With Govinda, Raveena Tandon, Satish Kaushik, Shakti Kapoor. Raja is a lazy slacker, who wants to have an easy life. He figures that if he gets married to a rich woman, then he will not have to work. So he meets with multi-millionaire Payal, impresses her, and both fall in love.
Dec 10, 2018 · Rajaji, as he was widely known, donned many hats—lawyer, politician, an activist for the freedom struggle, literary giant, historian, statesman and principled dissenter. Born on December 10, 1878, in Thorapalli Village of Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu, Rajaji was a man way ahead of his times, who was both revered and rejected in equal measure.
Jun 8, 2018 · Rajagopalachari was the first Indian governor of West Bengal after independence in 1947. In 1948 he was named the first Indian governor general of India, succeeding Lord Mountbatten, the last English governor general.
