who was rajendra Prasad? *explain in detail*
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Rajendra Prasad (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was an Indian independence activist, lawyer, scholar and subsequently, the first President of India, in office from 1950 to 1962. He was an Indian political leader and lawyer by training.
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Rajendra Prasad (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was an Indian independence activist, lawyer, scholar and subsequently, the first President of India, in office from 1950 to 1962. He was an Indian political leader and lawyer by training.
Born: 3 December 1884; Ziradei, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Siwan ...
Died: 28 February 1963 (aged 78); Patna, Bihar, India
Spouse(s): Rajavanshi Devi Prasad (m. 1896; died 1962)
Rajendra Prasad, (born December 3, 1884, Zeradei, India—died February 28, 1963, Patna), Indian politician, lawyer, and journalist who was the first president of the Republic of India (1950–62).
Rajvanshi Devi (राजवंशी देवी wife of rajendara prasad
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As a lawyerEdit
In 1916, he joined the High Court of Bihar and Odisha. In 1917, he was appointed as one of the first members of the Senate and Syndicate of the Patna University. He also practised law at Bhagalpur, the famous silk town in Bihar.
Role in the Independence MovementEdit
Prasad had a major role in the Independence Movement. Prasad's first association with Indian National Congress was during 1906 annual session organised in Calcutta, where he participated as a volunteer, while studying in Calcutta. Formally, he joined the Indian National Congress in the year 1911, when the annual session was again held in Calcutta.[12] During the Lucknow Session of Indian National Congress held in 1916, he met Mahatma Gandhi. During one of the fact-finding missions at Champaran, Mahatma Gandhi asked him to come with his volunteers.[13]
Rajendra Prasad, (born December 3, 1884, Zeradei, India—died February 28, 1963, Patna), Indian politician, lawyer, and journalist who was the first president of the Republic of India (1950–62).
Rajendra Prasad

President Prasad in 1958
1st President of IndiaIn office
26 January 1950 – 13 May 1962Prime MinisterJawaharlal NehruVice PresidentSarvepalli RadhakrishnanPreceded byPosition established
George VI as King of IndiaSucceeded bySarvepalli RadhakrishnanPresident of Constituent Assembly of IndiaIn office
9 December 1946 – 24 January 1950Prime MinisterJawaharlal NehruVice PresidentHarendra Coomar Mookerjee
V. T. KrishnamachariPreceded bySachchidananda SinhaSucceeded byPosition abolishedPersonal detailsBorn3 December 1884
Ziradei, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Siwan district, Bihar, India)Died28 February 1963 (aged 78)
Patna, Bihar, IndiaPolitical partyIndian National CongressSpouse(s)
Rajavanshi Devi Prasad
(m. 1896; died 1962)
Alma mate
rUniversity of CalcuttaAwardsBharat Ratna (1962)
Early life
Rajendra Prasad was born in a Kayastha family in Ziradei, in the Siwan district of Bihar.[3][4] His father, Mahadev Sahai Srivastava, was a scholar of both Sanskrit and Persian languages. His mother, Kamleshwari Devi, was a devout woman who would tell stories from the Ramayana and Mahabharata to her son. He was the youngest child and had one elder brother and three elder sisters. His mother died when he was a child and his elder sister then took care of him.Student lifeEdit
When Prasad was five years old, his parents placed him under the tutelage of a Maulavi, an accomplished Muslim scholar, to learn the Persian language, Hindi and arithmetic. After the completion of traditional elementary education, he was sent to the Chapra District School. Meanwhile, in June 1896, at the early age of 12, he was married to Rajavanshi Devi. He, along with his elder brother, Mahendra Prasad, then went to study at T.K. Ghosh's Academy in Patna for a period of two years. He secured first in the entrance examination to the University of Calcutta and was awarded Rs. 30 per month as a scholarship.
Prasad joined the Presidency College, Calcutta in 1902, initially as a science student. He passed the F. A. under the University of Calcutta in March 1904 and then graduated with a first division from there in March 1905.[7] Impressed by his intellect, an examiner once commented on his answer sheet that the "examinee is better than examiner".[8] Later he decided to focus on the study of arts and did his M.A. in Economics with a first division from the University of Calcutta in December 1907. There he lived with his brother in the Eden Hindu Hostel. A devoted student as well as a public activist, he was an active member of The Dawn Society.[9] It was due to his sense of duty towards his family and education that he refused to join Servants of India Society, as it was during that time when his mother had died as well as his sister became a widow at the age of nineteen and had to return to her parents' home. Prasad was instrumental in the formation of the Bihari Students Conference in 1906 in the hall of Patna College. It was the first organisation of its kind in India and produced[10] important leaders from Bihar like Anugrah Narayan Sinha and Krishna Singh who played a prominent role in the Champaran Movement and Non-cooperation Movement. The organisation provided political leadership to Bihar in the upcoming years.