C. Rajagopalachari

C. Rajagopalachari ( Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari; Tamil: சக்ரவர்தி ராஜகோபாலாச்சாரி; born December 10, 1878 Thorapalli village in the district of Salem, Tamil Nadu, † December 25, 1972, also known as Rajaji, CR or Salem mango) was an eminent Indian freedom fighter, a member of the Indian National Congress as well as friend and associate of Mohandas Gandhi, with whom he was connected by kinship; his daughter Lakshmi was married to Gandhi's son Devdas.

After India's independence from Britain in 1947, he served until 1950 as the first and last Governor-General of India, who was actually of Indian origin. 1947/48 he was governor of West Bengal. From 1952 to 1954 he held the office of the Chief Minister of Madras, Tamil Nadu today.

Disappointed with the development of the Congress Party under Nehru, he founded at the age of 81 years in 1959, together with NG Ranga and MR Masani liberal Swatantra Party, which was until his death at 94 years and the subsequent resolution 1974 times the most significant opposition party.

In his native Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu CR had to contend with the bone and attached image of the Brahmins and was therefore long opposed by the leading regional Tamil party, the first full independence, later a stronger regional representation demanded ( cf. EV Ramasamis " movement for self-esteem ").

He belonged in 1954 to the first winners of Bharat Ratna.

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