Amarnath Vidyalankar
| Amarnath Vidyalankar | |
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| Member of Parliament of India, 5th Lok Sabha | |
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In office 15 March 1971 – 18 January 1977 |
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| Member of Parliament of India, 3rd Lok Sabha | |
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In office 2 April 1962 – 3 March 1967 |
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| Minister Punjab Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 1957–1962 |
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| Member of Parliament of India, 1st Lok Sabha | |
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In office 15 April 1952 – 4 April 1957 |
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8 December 1901 Bhera, Shahpur District, British India |
| Died | 21 September 1985 (aged 83) New Delhi, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Shanta Devi |
| Alma mater | Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya |
Amarnath Vidyalankar(8 December 1901 – 21 September 1985) was an Indian freedom fighter, journalist, social worker and member of Parliament. He was involved in the Indian independence movement and a member of the Indian National Congress since before independence. After independence, Vidyalankar was Minister of Education, Labor and Languages in the Punjabi government from 1957 to 1962 and a member of the First (1952–56), Third (1962-67) and Fifth (1971-1977) Lok Sabhas.
Vidylankar was born in Bhera, Shahpur District, in pre-partition India on 8 December 1901. The only son of Aruri Mal urf-Parmanand, he was born into a lower-middle-class family. Vidylankar's father was involved in the Arya Samaj movement, frequently attending lectures of Arya Samaj leaders such as Lala Lajpat Rai.
Vidyalankar was educated at Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, an Arya Samaj school, for 14 years. Courses in Sanskrit, Hindi, the Vedas, Upanishads and Indian philosophy, English-language instruction to Punjab university standards, history and science were compulsory, with the school emphasizing a broad education. Vidyalankar later said that his education gave him "a very comprehensive insight into the realities of the universe".
His school influenced by Mahatma Munshiram, later known as Swami Shraddhanand. Munshiram, a political progressive, was a follower of Dayananda Saraswati and believed in a free India. Many revolutionaries from Bengal and Punjab were sheltered at Vidyalankar's school, influencing the students. When Viceroy Chelmsford visited the school, a condition of his visit (after the Delhi bomb case) was that no officers accompanying him could be armed; according to Vidyalankar, the students were proud of their insistence on nonviolence.
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