N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar

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N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar

Narasimha Gopalaswami Ayyangar , CSI , CIE (born March 31, 1882 , † February 10, 1953 in Madras ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), who was Prime Minister of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir between 1937 and 1943 and was Minister several times. As a member of the Constitutional Committee of the Constituent Assembly, he was one of the "fathers" of the Indian Constitution , which came into force on January 26, 1950.

Life

Administrator and Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir

Ayyangar, son of Shri Narasimha Ayyangar, completed a law degree at the Presidency and Law College in Madras after attending the Wesley School . After a brief activity from 1904 to 1905 as an assistant professor at Pachaiyappa's College , he entered the administration of Madras and held various positions there. First he was deputy head of the tax authority until 1919 and head of the tax authority and district magistrate in 1920. He was then from 1921 to 1928 general registrar and inspector of the local government for Ramanathapuram and Guntur and then between 1928 and 1931 head of the tax authority and magistrate of the district of Anantapur . In addition to his professional career, he became a member of the Central Legislative Assembly of British India in 1927 . He then acted as inspector of the local councils and local governments and from 1932 to 1934 as government secretary of the Office for Public Works, before becoming a member of the tax committee between 1934 and 1937. For his services there, he became Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1935 and Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) in 1937 .

In 1937 Ayyangar succeeded Elliot James Dowell Colvin as Prime Minister of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir and held this office for six years until April 1943, when Raja Maharaj Singh succeeded him. In 1941 he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". He was then a member of the Council of States , the upper house of the then parliament of British India, between 1943 and 1947 .

Minister and member of the Rajya Sabha

N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar (standing, 4th from left) with the first Nehru cabinet on January 31, 1950

On December 9, 1946 Ayyangar became a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and took an active part in the deliberations on the constitution of India . The members of the constitutional committee, chaired by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, included Ayyangar, Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar , Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi and TT Krishnamachari . One of the key advisors to the committee was Benegal Narsing Rau .

After independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947, he was appointed minister without portfolio to the first Nehru cabinet . In this role he dealt with India's relations with Pakistan , which also became independent from the United Kingdom on August 14, 1947, based on his previous experience as Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir .

Ayyangar then took over the post of Minister for Railways and Transport in September 1948 as the successor to John Matthai , who had been appointed Minister of Finance , and held this ministerial office until 1952. In this function he advocated a reorganization of the government apparatus in 1949, the reassignment of ministries, the improvement of the competence of government personnel and the establishment of a department for organization and methods of government. During this period in February 1949 he was head of the Indian delegation for talks with Pakistan, while the Pakistani delegation was led by Foreign Minister Muhammad Zafrullah Khan .

In addition, based on his legal experience, he was rapporteur for the introduction of the Abducted Persons (Recovery and Restorations) Act in 1949 .

At the same time he acted as the successor to Vallabhbhai Patel, who died in office on December 15, 1950, between December 1950 and May 1952 as Minister for the States. In the following second cabinet, Nehru , he took over the post of defense minister on April 15, 1952, which he held until his death on February 10, 1953.

Two weeks earlier, on April 3, 1952, he was a member of the State Council of Parliament , from which today's Rajya Sabha emerged on August 23, 1954 . From 1952 until his death in 1953 he also served as chairman of the INC parliamentary group and was thus Leader of the Council of States .

His marriage to Shrimati Komalammal had a son and a daughter.

publication

  • Report on Reorganization of the Machinery of Government , 1949, reprinted 1957

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 34166, HMSO, London, June 3, 1935, p. 3599 ( PDF , accessed February 22, 2017, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 34396, HMSO, London, May 11, 1937, p. 3080 ( PDF , accessed February 22, 2017, English).
  3. ↑ India (rulers.org)
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 35029, HMSO, London, January 1, 1941, p. 2 ( PDF , accessed February 22, 2017, English).
  5. ↑ LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY (AS IN NOVEMBER, 1949)
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  9. ↑ Singh: The Pearson Indian History Manual for the UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination , Pearson Education India, p. 186, ISBN 8-13171-753-4
  10. ↑ Sujit Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, Pratap Bhanu Mehta (editor): The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution , Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 546, ISBN 0-19105-861-0
  11. ↑ N. Jayapalan: Modern Governments , Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 1999, p 161, ISBN 8-17156-837-8
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  13. ^ Iqbal Singh: Between Two Fires: Towards an Understanding of Jawaharlal Nehru's Foreign Policy , Verlag Orient Blackswan, 1998, pp. 87, 89, 99, ISBN 8-12501-585-X
  14. ↑ Saroja Sundararajan: Kashmir Crisis Unholy Anglo Pak Nexus , Gyan Publishing House, 2010, pp. 65, 119, ISBN 8-17835-808-5
  15. ^ Josef Korbel: Danger in Kashmir , Verlag Princeton University Press, 2015, p. 99, ISBN 1-40087-523-4
  16. ^ List of all railway ministers of India
  17. ^ Indian Public Administration: Institutions and Issues , Verlag New Age International, 1995, p. 575, ISBN 8-17328-068-1
  18. ↑ Hoshiar Singh, Pradeep Sachdeva: Public Administration: Theory and Practice , Pearson Education India, 2012, ISBN 8-13179-558-6
  19. ^ AS Iyengar: Role of Press and Indian Freedom Struggle: All Through the Gandhian Era , Verlag APH Publishing, 2001, p. 120, ISBN 8-17648-256-0
  20. ^ Hent de Vries, Lawrence Eugene Sullivan (editor): Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-secular World , Fordham Univ. Press, 2006, p. 433, ISBN 0-82322-645-X
  21. ^ Veena Das: Life and Words: Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary , Verlag University of California Press, 2007, pp. 25 f., ISBN 0-52024-744-2
  22. ↑ Barbara Duden, Dorothee Noeres (editor): On the traces of the body in a technogenic world , Verlag Springer-Verlag, 2013, p. 89, ISBN 3-32299-667-0
  23. ↑ Taylor C. Sherman: Muslim Belonging in Secular India , Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 13, 80, ISBN 1-10709-507-7
personal data
SURNAME Ayyangar, N. Gopalaswami
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ayyangar, Narasimha Gopalaswami
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1882
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1953
Place of death Madras