Joins The Freedom Movement
At the call of Mahatma Gandhi, he gave up his legal practice and threw himself heart and soul into the freedom struggle. In addition, he was a great social reformer, an indefatigable worker for the cause of the downtrodden and depressed sections of society, for the education of women and for widow remarriage.
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