Hargovind Pant ( 19 May 1885 – 18 May 1957) was a
freedom fighter and founder of the
Kumaon Parishad political group in 1915. He was a member of the
Constituent Assembly of India where he represented the interests of the hill districts of
United Province. He was elected deputy speaker of the
United Provinces legislature on 4 January 1951.
Hargovind Pant was born in a
brahmin family
to Anandi Devi and Pandit Dharmanand Pant on 19 May 1885. He was raised in the Himalayas when
Indian Nationalism
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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
Muir Central College Allahabad and subsequently got his
L.L.B. degree from School of Law, Allahabad in the year 1909.
Pant started his law practice in the year 1910 at
Ranikhet. 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
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