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TIVARY, SHRI VENKATESH NARAYAN, M.A., Cong. [Uttar Pradesh—Kanpur Distt. (North) cum Farrukhabad Distt. (South)—1952]: S. of Shri Daya Narayan Tivary; B. Kanpur, 1890; ed. at Christ Church College, Kanpur and Muir Central College, Allahabad; m.; 4 S. and 4 D.; Journalist; Did famine relief work in Gujerat Kathiawar, Garhwal, Almora etc. and also relief to martial law victims in Punjab; Member, Servants of India Society, 1910 to 1930; Organising Secretary, All India Sewa Samiti, Allahabad,. 1914 to 1929; General Secretary, U.P.C.C., 1914 to 1918; Editor-‘Abhyudaya’, 1914 to 1919 and 1933 to 1934; Editor, ‘Maryada’, 1914 to 1919, Member Secretary of Government of India deputation to British Guiana in 1921-22; Member, Distt. Board, Allahabad,. 1923—30; Member, U.P. Legislative Council, 1927—30; Editor, ‘Bharat’, Allahabad, 1928 to 1930; Elected M.L.A. (U.P.) in 1937 and also in 1946; Parliamentary Secretary to Premier, U.P., July, 1937 to December, 1939; Member, Constituent Assembly of India, December, 1946 to January, 1950; Was Member of the Police Reorganisation Committee, Public Health and Medical Reorganisation Committee, Government of U.P. and Criminal Tribes Act Enquiry Committee of the Govemment of India; Suffered various terms of imprisonment for participating in Congress movements.
Hobbies: Reading and writing.
Publications: ‘Minority Problem in U.P.’, ‘Office of Profit under Govt.; ‘Essays on Constitutional Problems’ and Paradox of Irrigation in U.P.’.
Permanent address: 85, Purabaldi, Kydgunj, Allahabad.
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