Mahadev Desai

Mahadev Desai (born on January 1st, 1892, dead on August 15th, 1942) was militant in the Mouvement for the independence of India. It is especially known like the personal secretary of Gandhi. He is the author of several books on the social struggles of the Indians against the British colonizer, and of a newspaper in 9 volumes on his activity with Mahatma. Desai was a young lawyer with Ahmedabad when it decided to join Gandhi with Narhari Parikh, Mohanlal Pandya and Ravi Shankar Vyas, and was well to its devoted secretary during more than 25 years, of 1917 to 1942. The four were the defenders earliest of Gandhi. Mahadev Desai was stopped with Gandhi during all the nationalist revolts. The period as a chief of interest is Gandhi time was imprisoned in prison of Yeravda close to Pune, will maharashtra of 1931 to 1934. Desai wrote the majority of its important work on Gandhi for this period. It was stopped the morning August of 9 after the call of Gandhi with the English to stop India and envoy with the palate of Aga Khan for the imprisonment. He died August 15, 1942. Gandhi was devastated by the death of Desai' S to an young age. Gandhi and his wife Kasturba Gandhi had seen it as a their son, and its death was cried by the defenders of Gandhi' S through the country. He wrote several books on the non-violent fights carried out by Gandhi in India, and a diary called daily newspaper with Gandhi in nine volumes. Without counting that to write a diary of day in day, Desai also contributed regularly to the India young person and Navajivan, whose two Gandhi newspapers were the writer. During the imprisonment of Gandhi, Mahadev took the responsability for the writer of Navajivan. Motilal Nehru, father of Jawaharlal Nehru, requisitioned the services of Mahadev Desai into 1920 of Gandhi to publish the newspaper daily, independent, of Allahabad. Desai created a feeling while bringing out of a manuscript cyclostyled the newspaper after the press was confiscated by the British government. Desai was condemned to a rigorous imprisonment of year for its writing. In prison, Desai saw that the authorities of prison maltreated prisoners, frequently whipping them. His report/ratio describing the life inside an Indian prison, published as a young person India and Navajivan, has constrained the British authorities to cause some energetic measurements of reform of prison. Desai was among the founding members of all the conference of writers of newspaper of India. It also frequently contributed to various nationalist Indian newspapers such as the free pressure, the chronicle of Bombay, times of Hindustan, the Hindu and Amrita Bazar Patrika. His/her son Narayan Desai is also a non-violent activist.

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