Indulal Yagnik

DOB : 22-02-1892
Date of death: 17-07-1972
Lived For : 79 Years
Star Sign : Pisces
Gender : Male

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Indulal Yagnik’s full name was Indulal Kanaiyalal Yagnik. He was well-known as Indu Chacha. He was a Gujarati politician, separatist, writer, editor, filmmaker, and director. He was born on February 22, 1892. Indulal Yagnik’s place of birth is Jhagadia Pol in Nadiad, Kheda district, Gujarat, India. He accomplished his primary and secondary education in Nadiad. After completing the matriculation examination in 1906, he went to the Gujarati College in Ahmedabad for intermediate. Then, he did his Bachelor of Arts (B.A) at St. Xavier’s College, Bombay. In 1912, he completed his L.L.B. examination. Indulal Yagnik’s father, Kanaiyalal Yagnik, died at a young age. Indulal Yagnik was also an independence activist who brought the Indian tricolor flag hoisted by Madam Bhikaji Cama from Stuttgart, Germany, to India. He was also a leader of “All India Kisan Sabha” and led the Mahagujarat Movement in 1956. He was the founder president of the Mahagujarat Janata Parishad, but later on May 1, 1960, it was dissolved after the formation of Gujarat state.

He portrayed a significant role in spearheading the demand for separate statehood for Gujarat on August 8, 1956. In 1957, Indulal Yagnik was elected to the second Lok Sabha from Ahmedabad constituency in the erstwhile Bombay state. From 1962 to 1972, he was re-elected to the third, fourth, and fifth Lok Sabha from the same constituency. Indulal Yagnik was deeply influenced by Annie Besant, a British socialist, writer, educationist, theosophist, and philanthropist during his college days. In 1915, with Shankerlal Banker and Jamnadas Dwarkadas, he published an English magazine named Young India from Bombay. In the same year, he began the Gujarati monthly magazine, Navijan ane Satya, and remained its editor until 1919. He wrote the first thirty chapters of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography dictated by him from Yeravada jail. He joined Servants of India Society in the same year but resigned later to join the Home Rule Movement.

In 1918, he took part in the Kheda Satyagraha movement organized by Mahatma Gandhi. In 1921, he was the secretary of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee. He was an assistant editor of “The Bombay Chronicle” from 1926-27 and editor of the Gujarati daily “Hindustan” from 1924-28. He was the founder of the Gujarat Kisan Parishad in 1939. Indulal Yagnik’s most notable work is his autobiographical work, “Atmakatha,” in Gujarati. He lived for eighty years and died on July 17, 1972, in Ahmedabad. As a tribute to the founder of Gujarat Indulal Yagnik, his nine feet statue was built in a garden at the east end of Nehru Bridge, Ahmedabad.