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Shri Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi

Governor of Uttar Pradesh From: 02-06-1952 To: 09-06-1957

Birth 30th December, 1887
Education & Degree Educated at Baroda College.
Practised as advocate in the Bombay High Court, 1913.
B.A., LL.B., D.LITT., LL.D., Fellow of the Universities of Bombay and Baroda.
Highlights of Career - Founder President of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, 1938.
- Member, Legislative Assembly, Bombay, 1927–46.
- Member, Working Committee of the Indian National Congress, 1930.
- Member, A.I.C.C. during 1930–1936 and again in 1947.
- Actively involved in the Freedom Movement and imprisoned several times.
- Member, Constituent Assembly of India and Drafting Committee of Parliament, 1947–52.
- Secretary, Congress Parliamentary Board, 1934.
- Home Minister, Government of Bombay, 1937–39.
- Agent General to the Government of India in Hyderabad, 1948.
- Chairman, Institute of Agriculture, Anand, since 1951.
- Trustee of the Birla Education Trust and other trusts, since 1948.
- Union Minister for Food and Agriculture, 1950–52.
- Chairman, Sanskrit Vishwa Parishad, since 1951.
- Executive Chairman, Indian Law Institute, 1957–60.
Publications Author of over 50 books in Gujarati.
Books in English include:
- *Gujarat and its Literature*
- *Bhagwat Gita and Modern Life*
- *Saga of Indian Sculpture*
- *End of an Era – Hyderabad Memoirs*
- *Warnings of History*
- *Krishnavatara*, etc.
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