18 June 1974(1974-06-18) (aged 77) Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Nationality
Indian
Political party
Indian National Congress
Spouse
Godavari bai
Children
2 Sons Jagmohandas, Manmohandas & 2 Daughters Ratna Kumari, Padma
Parents
Jeevan Das (father)
Parvati Bai (mother)
Relatives
Gokuldas Malpani (grandfather)
Alma mater
Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur
Profession
Politician, Author
Website
http://www.gokuldas.com/sg/
As of 26 June, 2016
Source: ["Biography". Lok Sabha.]
Seth Govind Das (16 October 1896 – 18 June 1974) was an Indian independence activist and parliamentarian. He belonged to the Maheshwari merchant family of Raja Gokuldas of Jabalpur.[1] The family began as the banking firm of Sevaram Khushalchand, one of the "great firms" as termed by T.A. Timberg.[2][3]
Although born in a family with a history of loyalty to the British government, he was attracted to the movement to seek India's freedom from the British rule. He joined the Non Co-operation Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920 and was jailed five times for a total of eight years. He became a member of the All India Congress Committee since 1920 and served in the Congress Working Committee of the Tripuri Session of the Congress in 1939. He was the President of the Mahakoshal P.C.C. during 1928–1934 and 1946–1957, and the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee in 1957.
Das was also a Hindi author and supported Hindi as the national language of India.[4] He was jailed in Damoh for eight months by British, where he wrote four plays 'Prakash' (social), 'Kartavya' (mythological), 'Navras' (philosophical) and a 'Spardha'(one act play).[5] He wrote more than a hundred plays, a novel "Indu-mati", five travel books, a three volume autobiography, four biographies, mostly in Hindi.
He represented Jabalpur in the Indian Parliament from the first to the fifth Lok Sabha, continuously, from 1957 to 1974 when he died.[6][7] He was appointed Speaker protem (prior to the formal election of a speaker) by the President for the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Lok Sabha and administered the oath of the office to all the rest of the Lok Sabha members.[8]
The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1961.[9]
^The Life of a Text, Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas, Philip Lutgendorf, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, p. 423
^Timberg, Thomas, (1971), A Study of a "Great" Marwari Firm: 1860-1914, The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 8, issue 3, p. 264–283.
^The Marwaris: From Jagat Seth to the Birlas, Thomas A Timberg, Gurcharan Das, Penguin UK, 2015
^हिंदी बोलने में गर्व महसूस करते हैं ये 7 बॅालीवुड, Patrika, Sep 11, 2018
SethGovindDas (16 October 1896 – 18 June 1974) was an Indian independence activist and parliamentarian. He belonged to the Maheshwari merchant family...
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India. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Gulazāra; Nihalani, Govind; Chatterjee, Saibal, eds. (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema. New Delhi:...
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with Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Kaka Kalelkar, Maithili Sharan Gupt and SethGovindDas who even debated in Parliament on this issue. As such, on the 50th...
Inc. pp. 5–7. ISBN 978-93-85827-16-7. Khubchandani, Lata (2003). Gulzar; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular...
served as a director of Bank of Baroda with Tulsidas Kilachand, Rameshwar Das Birla, Arvind Mafatlal and others. Naval Tata went on to become an internationally...
However, the family's decline was stopped after Indian independence, SethGovindDas, the grandson of Gokuldas revived the family's fortunes after energetic...
surrounding Mujumdar's dictatorial and manipulative style. Bal Gandharva, Ganesh Govind ('Ganpatrao') Bodas and Govindrao Tembe left the company in 1913 to form...
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remained divided on the language issue, with some like R. V. Dulekar and SethGovindDas favouring declaring Hindi written in Devanagari the national language...
about to end. The governor of the province, Sir Montagu Butler offered SethGovindDas the post, but he refused the offer and Mr S. B. Tambe from the Berar...
Pt. D. P. Mishra along with Chief of Mahakoshal Congress Committee SethGovindDas toured entire Central Provinces to propagate the importance of Satyagrah...
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