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Nation Amrit Mahotsav

KRISHNA CHANDRA LOKRAM NAYANRAM

GAJAPATI NARAYAN DEV: SHARMA: HIS WRITINGS

VOICED FOR CREATION OF A INSPIRED FREEDOM

SEPARATE ODISHA PROVINCE FIGHTERS

Born: 26 April 1892; Died: 25 May 1974 Born: 1890; Died: May 29, 1933

rishna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo, a scholar, okram Nayanram Sharma was born in
Kfreedom fighter, and social worker, was the first LSindh province in 1890. A freedom fighter,
prime minister of Odisha province and the king of the journalist, and organiser, he learned ancient
princely state of Paralakhemundi. On April 26, 1892, he Indian literature from his family at a young age.
was born in Paralakhemundi to Raja Gaura Chandra He has had a special interest in the Sanskrit
Gajapati and Radhamani Devi. Paralakhemundi is language since he was a child. Because of
currently in the district of Gajapati. Odisha's present this interest, he went to Varanasi with a friend
Gajapati district is named after him. He was one of at the age of 15 to study Sanskrit. During
the pioneers of independent Odisha. He also made his time in Varanasi, he became acquainted
significant contributions to the country's freedom with the anti-Bang-Bhang and Swadeshi
struggle. As a member of India's Constituent Assembly, movements. He also met the protesters there.
he is also regarded as having made an important He actively opposed the British through these
contribution to the creation of the Constitution. movements.
On November 16, 1930, Krishna Chandra attended By the time he reached Sindh in 1907,
the first Round Table Conference in London, where he he was full of nationalist sentiments. In
advocated for the creation of a separate province of his home town, he was associated with
Odisha based on linguistic and cultural homogeneity. prominent Sindhi leaders Choithram Gidwani,
Odisha was formed on April 1, 1936, thanks to the Jairam Das, and Daulat Ram. Lokram
efforts of Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati, Utkal Nayanram Sharma also participated in the
Gaurav Madhusudan Das, Utkalmani Gopabandhu Salt Satyagraha led by Mahatma Gandhi. In
Das, Fakir Mohan Senapati, and other members of the 1931, Lokram also played an important role in
Utkal Sammilani. From April 1 to July 1, 1937, Krishna organising the Congress session in Karachi.
Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo served as Odisha's Journalist Lokram's nationalist articles were
first Prime Minister. Later, from November 24, 1941 to banned several times, yet he continued his
June 30, 1944, he served as Prime Minister of Odisha writing. Lokram fully supported the national
for the second time. Through education and literature, agitators in his writings. His writing strongly
he made significant contributions to the advancement supported national aspirations.
of the state and the betterment of society. He founded To spread his ideas, he founded the cultural
numerous hospitals, schools, colleges, and industrial organisation Ras Mandali. Lokram then began
institutions. He also built 1281 water tanks in his taluka. publishing the Sindh Bhaskar in Devanagari
Along with his contributions to the development script rather than Arabic. Eventually its name
of education in Odisha, he also made significant was changed to Hindu. The British outlawed
contributions to the language movement and the his publications and confiscated his press.
abolition of child marriage. He passed away on May 25, Lokram Nayanram Sharma was arrested
1974. He is remembered by the people of Odisha for his several times. His health continued to
distinctive contribution to the advancement, welfare, deteriorate as a result of the exploitation and
and betterment of society through the mediums of inhuman treatment he received in jail, and he
education and literature, as well as for his determination became ill. He died on May 29, 1933, at the
to make Odisha a separate state. age of 43, as a result of illness.

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