Issue Date:2nd SEP'2011
Details:
Shri Surendra Nath Jauhar was born on 13th August, 1903at village Vahalee, West
Punjab (now in Pakistan) He joined the freedom struggle at the age of
16 in response to a call to the youth of the country by Mahatma Gandhi.
As a leading Congressman of Delhi, he was thrown behind the bars
several times, two of the longest spells being 15 months for reading
the Purna Swaraj pledge in 1930, and for participating in the Quit
India Movement from 1942 to 1944. He became an ardent devotee of Sri
Aurobindo and the Mother in 1939. He gave away his land to establish
the Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Delhi Branch in 1956, and also became the
founder of Sri Aurobindo Education Society, under which he started The
Mother’s International School in 1956 and Mirambika in
1982. Summarising his life, it can be said that he gave his all for
the country – as a freedom fighter and later as a pioneer of
man-making and value-oriented education.
Remark:Thanks Biswal for sending this FDC on the issue date by registered & speed post.
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