Baba Raghav Das was born on 12th December 1896 in Pune in
Pachhapurkar family. He was youngest in his family of eight siblings, and was
named Raghavendra. His entire family died in first plague epidemic of 1902-
1904, and the five year old child was compelled to take primary education at
Bombay. He traveled various places including Haridwar, Tehari, Allahabad and
Banaras, but started living with Yogiraj Anant Mahaprabhu at Barhaj town of
Deoria district since age of 16 years. He later on got dedicated to National
Movement for Independence of the country. He participated in Non Cooperation
Movement in 1920. With the help of Sri Moti Lal Nehru and Sri Madan Mohan
Malviya he succeeded in getting 96 of 114 accused acquitted in Chauri Chaura
Case. He worked in an organized way since 1924 and especially worked economic
development of villages, cultural upliftment of country, service of down
trodden, education and spread of Hindi as a national language.
He participated in various movements like namak satyagrah , boycott of
Simon Commission, etc. After independence he worked for spread of education
among children, women and elderly. He participated actively in service of
leprosy patients and bhudan yagya . After serving his motherland in
various ways, he died in the lap of Bharat Mata on 15th
January 1958. |
