Indulal Yagnik Explained

Indulal Yagnik
Birth Date:1892 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Nadiad, Bombay Presidency, British India
Death Place:Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Monuments:A statue in garden at east end of Nehru Bridge, Ahmedabad
Other Names:Induchacha
Education:B.A.,LL.B.
Alma Mater:Gujarat College, Ahmedabad; St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
Occupation:Independence activist, politician, separatist, writer, editor, film maker
Years Active:1915–1972
Employer:Bombay Samachar
Organization:Gujarat Kisan Parishad, Mahagujarat Janata Parishad, Nutan Mahagujarat Janata Parishad
Known For:leading Mahagujarat Movement
Notable Works:Autobiography Atmakatha (Gujarati: આત્મકથા)
Parents:Kanaiyalal Yagnik (Gujarati: કનૈયાલાલ યાજ્ઞિક)

Indulal Kanaiyalal Yagnik (22 February 1892 – 17 July 1972) was an Indian independence activist, who purchased indian tri colour flag from Germany to India. He was a leader of the All India Kisan Sabha and one who led the Mahagujarat Movement, which spearheaded the demand for the separate statehood of Gujarat on 8 August 1956.[1] He is also known as Indu Chacha.[1] [2] He was also a writer and film maker.[2]

Yagnik was elected to the 2nd Lok Sabha from Ahmedabad constituency in the erstwhile Bombay state in 1957. He was re-elected to the 3rd, 4th and 5th Lok Sabha from the same constituency from 1962 to 1972.[3]

Early life (1892–1915)

Yagnik was born in a Nagar brahmin family[4] at Jhagadia Pol in Nadiad, Kheda, Gujarat.[5] His father Kanaiyalal died at a young age while studying. Yagnik completed his primary and secondary education in Nadiad and after passing the matriculation examination in 1906, he joined the Gujarat College in Ahmedabad. After passing the intermediate examination, he took admission to the St. Xavier's College, Bombay and passed his B.A. examination from there. In 1912, he passed his L.L.B. examination.[3]

Independence movement (1915–1947)

Yagnik brought the tri colour flag from Stuttgart, Germany which was hoisted by Madam Cama. Yagnik was deeply influenced by Annie Besant during his college days. In 1915, along with Jamnadas Dwarkadas and Shankerlal Banker, he published an English language magazine, Young India, from Bombay.[3] [6] In the same year, publication of the Gujarati monthly Navjivan ane Satya started. Yagnik was its editor until 1919, when he handed it over to Mahatma Gandhi. He wrote the first 30 chapters of Gandhi's autobiography in Yeravada jail after taking dictation from him.[7]

He joined the Servants of India Society in the same year but resigned in 1917 and joined the Home Rule Movement.[3] In 1918, he participated in the Kheda Satyagraha led by Gandhi.[8] In 1921 he became the secretary of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee. In October 1922 he started another Gujarati monthly, Yugadharm. He was imprisoned by the British from April 1923 to March 1924.[3] From 1924 to 1928, he was the editor of Hindustan, a Gujarati daily from Bombay. During 1926–27, he was also an assistant editor of The Bombay Chronicle. He travelled to a number of countries in Europe from 1930 to 1935.[3]

In 1936, he took active initiative in the formation of the All India Kisan Sabha and participated in its first session alongside Swami Sahajananda Saraswati.[9] In 1939, he founded the Gujarat Kisan Parishad. He was again imprisoned during 1940–41 for his anti-war campaign. In 1942, he presided over the annual session of the Akhil Hind Kisan Sabha. He started the Gujarati daily Nutan Gujarat in 1943.[3]

Post-independence (1947–1972)

In 1956, Yagnik led the Mahagujarat Movement for a separate Gujarat state and became the founder president of the Mahagujarat Janata Parishad.[3] In 1957, he was elected to the 2nd Lok Sabha from Ahmedabad constituency as a Mahagujarat Janata Parishad candidate.[3] After the formation of Gujarat state on 1 May 1960, Mahagujarat Janata Parishad was dissolved.[10] In June 1960 he founded the Nutan Maha Gujarat Janata Parishad and was re-elected to the 3rd Lok Sabha as its candidate in 1962.[3]

He died on 17 July 1972 at Ahmedabad.

Works

Books

Publications

He started or edited several magazines including Young India, Navjivan ane Satya, and Yugadharm, and newspapers including Mumbai Samachar, Nutan Gujarat, The Bombay Chronicle, and Hindustan.

Plays

Poetry

Short notes

Films

Yagnik's involvement with films began with writing about cinema in the 1920s. He wrote about Indian and Western films in the Gujarati-language newspaper Hindustan, that he also edited. He went on to write screenplays for a few films, before co-founding his own film production company, the Classical Pictures Corporation. After it failed to take off, he went solo, launched Young India Pictures, and made Goddess Mahakali (1928). He quit films before the talkies era began, especially after his Kashmir Nu Gulab (1931) failed commercially, immersed himself in nationalist politics.[14]

With Young India Pictures, Yagnik produced more than ten films in Gujarati.[2] [15] Some of them are:

Recognition

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Lifting Indu Chacha to higher pedestal. https://web.archive.org/web/20120309000118/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-04-29/ahmedabad/28132960_1_security-plan-sanat-mehta-student-leader. dead. 9 March 2012. Vashi. Ashish. The Times of India. 29 April 2010.
  2. News: Reprint of Indulal Yagnik's autobiography set for release. https://archive.today/20130103123408/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-24/ahmedabad/29698319_1_autobiography-indu-chacha-indulal-yagnik. dead. 3 January 2013. Vashi. Ashish. The Times of India. 24 June 2011. 29 November 2012.
  3. Book: Chakrabarty, Bidyut. Subhas Chandra Bose and middle class radicalism: a study in Indian nationalism 1928–1940. I. B. Tauris. London. 1990. 1-85043-149-3. 178.
  4. Book: Yajnik, Indulal Kanaiyalal . The Autobiography of Indulal Yagnik . 2011 . Manohar Publishers & Distributors . 978-81-7304-897-5 . en.
  5. News: Birthplace of architect of Gujarat in shambles. Hitesh. Chavda. 22 February 2013. 4 September 2014.
  6. Chandra, Bipan and others (1998). India's Struggle for Independence, New Delhi: Penguin Books,, p.161
  7. News: Indulal boycotted Swadeshi movement to express disapproval of Bapu's philosophy. https://archive.today/20130103114617/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-25/ahmedabad/29702833_1_gandhiji-yeravada-jail-bapu. dead. 3 January 2013. 25 November 2012. The Times of India. 25 June 2011.
  8. Chandra, Bipan and others (1998). India's Struggle for Independence, New Delhi: Penguin Books,, p.180
  9. Chandra, Bipan and others (1998). India's Struggle for Independence, New Delhi: Penguin Books,, p.345
  10. News: Vashi. Ashish. Common man who never became CM. https://archive.today/20130103100415/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-04-30/ahmedabad/28113912_1_navjivan-trust-satyagraha-separate-state. dead. 3 January 2013. 25 November 2012. The Times of India. 30 April 2010.
  11. Web site: Google books Author search. books.google.com.
  12. Web site: Google books Author search. books.google.com.
  13. News: Vashi. Ashish. Midnight's Children saw golden dawn. https://archive.today/20130103074439/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-04-27/ahmedabad/28133950_1_mahagujarat-movement-che-film-maker. dead. 3 January 2013. 25 November 2012. The Times of India. 27 April 2010.
  14. News: Baskaran . S. Theodore . S. Theodore Baskaran . Visionary filmmaker . . 14 September 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/19961222110924/http://www.webpage.com/hindu/950902/04/2728b.html . 22 December 1996 . 28 . 27 August 1995.
  15. Book: K. Moti Gokulsing. Wimal Dissanayake. Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas. 2013. Routledge. 978-1-136-77284-9. 89.
  16. Web site: Photo Gallery-Indulal Yagnik Stamp. www.pib.nic.in. Press Information Bureau. 30 November 2012.
  17. News: Lifting Indu Chacha to higher pedestal . https://web.archive.org/web/20120309000118/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-04-29/ahmedabad/28132960_1_security-plan-sanat-mehta-student-leader . dead . 9 March 2012 . . 29 April 2010 . Vashi . Ashish .

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