Early Life
Sunderlal Bahuguna was born in village Maroda, near Tehri, Uttarakhand on 9 January 1927. He claimed in a function arranged at Kolkotta, that his ancestors bearing sirname Bandopadhyaya, migrated from Bengal to Tehri, some 800 years ago. Early on, he fought against untouchability and later started organizing hill women in his anti-liquor drive from 1965 to 1970. He started social activities at the age of thirteen, under the guidance of Sri Dev Suman, who was a nationalist sperading message of non-violence and he was with Congress party of Uttar Pradesh (India) at the time of Independence. Bahuguna also mobilised people against colonial rule before 1947. He adopted Gandhian principles in his life and married his wife Vimla with the condition that they would live among rural people and establish ashram in village. Inspired by Gandhi, he walked through Himalayan forests and hills, covering more than 4,700 kilometers by foot and observed the damage done by mega developmental projects on fragile eco-system of Himalaya and subsequent degradation of social life in villages.
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