Question

Gayatri Singh is the librarian of your school library. Write a brief biographical sketch in about 80 words using the hints given below: • Age: 46 years • Family: married and two sons • Education: bachelor’s degree in Library science • Experience: five years • Work: issues books, helps students in finding books, keeps the record of the books • Runs the library efficiently. *
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Answer 1

Answer:

Lala Lajpat Rai was one of the  

outstanding leaders of modern India, a  

contemporary of Dadabhai Naoroji,  

Tilak, Gokhale and Gandhi. His public  

life spanned the last decade of the  

nineteenth century and first three  

decades of the twentieth century. In his  

twenties he practised law at the Lahore  

Chief Court and built up a lucrative  

practice but was drawn very early into  

public activities pertaining to religious,  

educational and social reforms and then  

to nationalist politics.  

Lajpat Rai was one of the foremost  

leaders of the Indian National Congress  

in the years before the First World War.  

His arrest and deportation without trial to  

Burma in 1907 created great sensation  

in India. He spent the war years in the  

United States promoting the Indian case  

for self-government. He returned to India  

in 1920 and presided over the historic  

session of the Indian National Congress  

at Calcutta which approved of Gandhi’s  

programme for non-cooperation with the  

Raj. Later, he was the deputy leader of  

the Swaraj Party in the Central  

Legislative Assembly. He remained  

active both in provincial and national  

politics in the 1920s. While leading a  

demonstration against the Simon  

Commission at Lahore in 1928 he  

received injuries in an assault by the  

police which hastened his death.  

The first volume in this series covers  

the period up to 1 900. While engaged in  

legal practice at the Lahore Bar, Lajpat  

Rai was also intensely involved in the  

work of Arya Samaj, and in social and  

humanitarian activities, such as famine  

relief, organization of orphanages and  

promotion of education on modern lines.  

He made his first foray into national  

politics at the age of twenty-three. He  

wrote ‘Open Letters’ to Sir Syed Ahmed  

Khan, the great Muslim educationist of  

Aligarh, charging him with going back on  

his views on Hindu-Muslim unity and