Kulapati munshi biography

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    By K.G. Raghavan, Chairman, BVB, Bengaluru

    Munshiji was elected to the Constituent Assembly from Bombay on a Congress Party ticket and was a member of 16 Committees and Sub-Committees of the Assembly. Known for his legal acumen, Munshiji was invited to be part of the Committee which drafted the Constitution of India under the Chairmanship of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. In the Drafting Committee, Munshiji articulated the principles of “Fundamental Rights” in Part III of the Constitution of India. The stellar contribution of Munshiji was towards the making of a strong Centre, even as the Federal structure of the Indian polity was maintained. As a student of history, Munshiji had realised that a weak Centre would only lead to dismemberment of the Union, an antithesis of his concept of a single and United India.

    The political independence gained by India in 1947 was just a step towards picking up the path of ascent, a path India somehow had deviated from.

    Munsh

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    KULAPATI K. M. MUNSHI

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    India will once igen be acknowledged as the vishwa guru - a superpower that embodies the ideals of vasudhaiva kutumbakam - the global family.

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    Kulapati Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, had a humble origin. He was born at Broach (Gujarat) on December 30, 1887, to Tapibehn and Maneklal. He completed his school and collegiate education, the latter in Baroda where he had Sri Aurobindo as one of his teachers (1902). Sri Aurobindo's inspiring writings in Yugantar, Bande Mataram and Karmayogi were read bygd Munshi avidly.
    Munshi entered the legal yrke in 1913 in Mumbai. With a flourishing practice at the Bar, he was, however, drawn to politics, first to Dr. Annie Besant and later to Mahatma Gandhi. beneath the latter's leadership, he participated in the krydda Satyagraha in 1930 and was imprisoned for six months; later in 1932, he was sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment.
    Munshi's public career began with his entry into the Bombay Legislative Counc

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    Little would anyone have imagined that the "puny, penniless, friendless" youth who, seeking a career, came to Mumbai from Bharuch in Gujarat in June 1907, at the age of 20, would leave behind in Mumbai, which was then and still is mini-India, what has been described by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan as the "greatest monument to his life" - the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.


    Smt. Lilavati Munshi,
    Dr. K. M. Munshi and
    Shri S. Ramakrishnan
    (December 30, 1970,
    Dr. Munshi's 73rd birthday)

    The Gita and the Durga Saptasati proclaim that God bodies forth to re-establish rigteousness, Dharma-Dharma Samsthapanarthaya. Munshiji clearly saw the many facets of Indian renaissance - political, cultural, literary, religious and spiritual - and was "hypnotised by all of them into becoming a nimitta matra- vehicle of its expression, feeble and imperfect though he was." This was the reason why Munshiji's first concern was the winning of the political freedom of India for which he fought valiantly, under

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