The Collected Works of Lala Lajpat Rai, Volume 1

496 Pages·2003·21.5 MB·English

by  Lala Lajpat Rai

Lala Lajpat Rai was one of the
outstanding leaders of modern India, a
contemporary of Dadabhai Naoroji,
Tilak, Gokhale and Gandhi. His public
life spanned the last decade of the
nineteenth century and first three
decades of the twentieth century. In his
twenties he practised law at the Lahore
Chief Court and built up a lucrative
practice but was drawn very early into
public activities pertaining to religious,
educational and social reforms and then
to nationalist politics.
Lajpat Rai was one of the foremost
leaders of the Indian National Congress
in the years before the First World War.
His arrest and deportation without trial to
Burma in 1907 created great sensation
in India. He spent the war years in the
United States promoting the Indian case
for self-government. He returned to India
in 1920 and presided over the historic
session of the Indian National Congress
at Calcutta which approved of Gandhi’s
programme for non-cooperation with the
Raj. Later, he was the deputy leader of
the Swaraj Party in the Central
Legislative Assembly. He remained
active both in provincial and national
politics in the 1920s. While leading a
demonstration against the Simon
Commission at Lahore in 1928 he
received injuries in an assault by the
police which hastened his death.
The first volume in this series covers
the period up to 1 900. While engaged in
legal practice at the Lahore Bar, Lajpat
Rai was also intensely involved in the
work of Arya Samaj, and in social and
humanitarian activities, such as famine
relief, organization of orphanages and
promotion of education on modern lines.
He made his first foray into national
politics at the age of twenty-three. He
wrote ‘Open Letters’ to Sir Syed Ahmed
Khan, the great Muslim educationist of
Aligarh, charging him with going back on
his views on Hindu-Muslim unity and
[contd. on back flap
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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
LALA LAJPAT RAI
VOLUME ONE

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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
LALA
LAJPAT RAI
VOLUME ONE
Chief Editor
B.R. Nanda
MANOHAR
2003
First published 2003
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