Hargovind Pant ( 19 May 1885 – 18 May 1957) was a

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and founder of the Kumaon Parishad

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in 1915. He was a member of the

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where he represented the interests of the hill districts of

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. He was elected deputy speaker of the

s legislature on 4 January 1951. Hargovind Pant was born in a

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family to Anandi Devi and Pandit Dharmanand Pant on 19 May 1885. He was raised in the Himalayas when Indian Nationalism had taken root in the minds of educated Indian people which had revolutionary potentialities. He passed his intermediate examination in the first division in 1905 from Govt College of Almora. He graduated from

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Allahabad and subsequently got his

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degree from School of Law, Allahabad in the year 1909. Pant started his law practice in the year 1910 at

Ranikhet Ranikhet ( Kumaoni: ) is a hill station and cantonment town, nearby Almora Town in Almora district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the home for the Military Hospital, Kumaon Regiment (KRC) and Naga Regiment and is maintained by the In ...

. He contributed lavishly for starting local papers with nationalistic ideas so that the masses could be educated and informed about political awakening in the country and he himself started Kumaon Parishad, the first political organisation in Uttarakhand.

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1885 births 1957 deaths Members of the Constituent Assembly of India Deputy Speakers of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 20th-century Indian lawyers Indian National Congress politicians from Uttarakhand India MPs 1957–1962 {{India-law-bio-stub