Lal bahadur shastri born

His father was a school teacher who died when Lal Bahadur Shastri was only a year and half old. He was sent to live with an uncle in Varanasi so that he could go to high school. Lal Bahadur Sashtri was only eleven at the time, but the process that was end day to catapult him to the national stage had already begun in his mind. The family could not dissuade him from what they thought was a disastrous course of action.

Lal bahadur shastri family tree

But Lal Bahadur had made up his mind. All those who were close to him knew that he would never change his mind once it was made up, for behind his soft exterior was the firmness of a rock. Lal Bahadur Shastri joined the Kashi Vidya Peeth in Varanasi, one of the many national institutions set up in defiance of the British rule. There, he came under the influence of the greatest intellectuals, and nationalists of the country.

In , he got married. His wife, Lalita Devi, came from Mirzapur, near his home town. The wedding was traditional in all senses but one. A spinning wheel and a few yards of handspun cloth was all the dowry. The bridegroom would accept nothing more. In , Mahatma Gandhi marched to the sea beach at Dandi and broke the imperial salt law. The symbolic gesture set the whole country ablaze.

Lal Bahadur Shastri threw himself into the struggle for freedom with feverish energy.