Notable Personalities of Ballia
Mangal Pandey ~ referred to as the first freedom fighter and martyr of 1857.
The first freedom fighter and martyr Shri
Mangal Pandey was born in village Nagwa District Ballia of Uttar
Pradesh. He was famous for bravery amongst his colleagues. An English
scholar "Fisher" has written that Shri Mangal Pandey was having all
qualities of a good soldier. He was so brave and capable to embrace his
death peacefully. According to the records available in Jabalpur
museum (general order books). Shri Mangal Pandey was due to be executed
on 18th April but he was hanged ten days before i.e. 8th April and it
was kept secret. Because English rules were well aware of the fact that
if Mangal Pandey remains alive it will endanger British rule. Thus
Mangal Pandey became the first freedom fighter and martyr of 1857. The
name of Mangal Pandey became an emblem of revolt against British rule.
Chittu Pandey (1865-1946) – Referred to as the Shere Ballia (Lion of Ballia).
Chittu Pandey was born on May 10, 1865, in Rattuchak, a village in Ballia District of
Uttar Pradesh. Chittu Pandey led the Quit India Movement in Ballia on August 19, 1942. He died in 1946. Described as the "Tiger of Ballia" by Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose,
he headed the National Government declared and established on August
19, 1942 for a few days before it was brutally suppressed by the
British.
He was born in Arat-Dubeka Chhapra, a remote
village of Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh, inherited a passion for
astrology, a love for Sanskrit, and a mind enquiring into the mysteries
of Indian religion and cultural tradition. Dwivedi got his early
education in Sanskrit. In 1930, he passed the Intermediate and Acharya
examinations in Astrology from Banaras Hindu University and left for
Santiniketan on a teaching assignment. From 1940 to 1950 he held the
office of the Director of Hindi Bhavan in Visvabharati. His close
association with Rabindranath Tagore, Kshitimohan Sen, Vidhusekhar
Bhattacharya and Banarasidas Chaturvedi served as a stimulus to his
literary activity.
He was born on October 11, 1902, in
Sitabdiara, a village on the border of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. His
father Harsudayal was a junior official in the canal department of the
State government and was often touring the region. Jayaprakash, called
Baul affectionately, was left with his grandmother to study in
Sitabdiara. Since there was no high school in the village, Jayaprakash
was sent to Patna to study in the Collegiate School. He excelled in
school. His essay, "The present state of Hindi in Bihar", won a best
essay award. He entered the Patna College on a Government scholarship.
Chandra Shekhar Singh - 9TH Prime Minister of India:-Chandra Shekhar Singh was born on the 1st of July 1927, in a village
called Ibrahimpatti of the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh in India. He
was the 9th Prime Minister of the Republic of India. From the year 1962
to 1967, Chandra Shekhar belonged to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house
of the Parliament of India and had also undertaken a nationwide
padayatra or a walk by foot, in the year 1984, in order to know the
country better as he claimed.
Chandra Shekhar was born to a family of farmers in Ibrahimpatti in eastern Uttar Pradesh. He did his Master of Arts at Allahabad University. In student politics, Chandra Shekhar was known for his firebrand image. After completing his graduation, he was actively involved in socialist politics. He was influenced by Acharya Narendra Dev, a fiery Socialist leader in the starting of his political career. Chandra Shekhar Singh was a member of the Upper house of the Parliament of India from 1962 to 1967. He went on a nationwide padayatra to know the country better in the year 1984, and he claimed that the padayatra gave the jitters to the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.
District Ballia is glorified by the name of late Sri Murli Manohar Ji, affectionately called as Murli babu.He was a dedicated
social worker & educationist. His heart craved to start a “College
with a difference” to educate the rural population of Ballia. With
this high mission and vision, Murali Babu joined the Town Educational
Society of Ballia as a member in 1946 and became its president in the
year 1947.
This led to a turning point in the history of
Ballia and Eastern Uttar Pradesh with the foundation of the college on
the 7th day of July, 1955, with commerce (B. Com.) as the first course,
affiliated to Agra University. Apart from this, the Town Educational
Society has founded and runs four more premier institutions in the
city- Murli Manohar Town Intermediate College, Gulab Devi
Mahila Inter College, Gulab Devi Mahila Degree College and Town
Polytechnic Institute, Ballia
Dr.
Ganesh Prasad:- Dr. Ganesh Prasad was born
on the 15th November, 1876 at Ballia, U.P. He belonged to a well-to-do
Shrivastava Kayasth family. He had his early education at the Government High School, Ballia from where he
passed the matriculation examination in 1891 in the First Division. Later on he
studied at the Muir Central College, Allahabad, where he took his B.A. degree
in 1895 with first class honours in mathematics. After taking his M.A. degree
from mathematics. After taking his M.A.
degree from Allahabad and Calcutta Universities and D.Sc. from Allahabad in
1898, he proceeded to Cambridge for higher studies in 1899 as a Government of
India scholar. By then, he had already served as a lecturer at the Kayasth
Pathshala, Allahabad, and at the Muir Central College, Allahabad, for about two
years.
During his stay at Cambridge, he studied with men like Hobson, Forsyth, Baker and Lamour. While at Cambridge, he sat for the Adam’s prize competition. None of the competitors was awarded the prize, and so Dr. Prasad went to Gottingen and showed his paper entitled `On the constitution of matter and the analytical theories of heat’, the one he had submitted for the Adam’s prize competition, to Prof. Klein, who appreciated it very much and honoured him by getting the paper published in the Gottingen Abhandllingen. While at Gottingen, he came into contact with men like Sommerfeld, David Hilbert and Georg Cantor.
After five years of stay abroad, Dr. Prasad returned to India in 1904 and was appointed additional professor of mathematics at the Muir Central College, Allahabad. Within a year of his appointment at Allahabad, Mahamahopadhyay Pt. Sudharkar Dwivedi, then head of the department of mathematics at the Queen’s College, Banaras retired, and Dr. Prasad was sent there. He was the only professor of mathematics there and he had to teach all the four degree classes. Before going to the college, he used to help two students in preparing for the D.Sc. degree.
In 1914, Sir Asutosh Mukherji, the then Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University, invited him to occupy the Ras Behari Ghosh chair of Applied Mathematics. After staying for four years at Calcutta, he came back to Banaras in 1917 to serve as the professor of mathematics at the Banaras Hindu University and honorary principal of the Central Hindu College, Banaras. Here he completely reorganized the teaching of mathematics. In 1923, he was once again invited to Calcutta, this time to occupy the chair of Hardinge Professor of Mathematics. He continued in this post till his death on 9th March, 1935 while attending a meeting of the Agra University.
Mathematician Kedarnath Singh - Hindi poetDuring his stay at Cambridge, he studied with men like Hobson, Forsyth, Baker and Lamour. While at Cambridge, he sat for the Adam’s prize competition. None of the competitors was awarded the prize, and so Dr. Prasad went to Gottingen and showed his paper entitled `On the constitution of matter and the analytical theories of heat’, the one he had submitted for the Adam’s prize competition, to Prof. Klein, who appreciated it very much and honoured him by getting the paper published in the Gottingen Abhandllingen. While at Gottingen, he came into contact with men like Sommerfeld, David Hilbert and Georg Cantor.
After five years of stay abroad, Dr. Prasad returned to India in 1904 and was appointed additional professor of mathematics at the Muir Central College, Allahabad. Within a year of his appointment at Allahabad, Mahamahopadhyay Pt. Sudharkar Dwivedi, then head of the department of mathematics at the Queen’s College, Banaras retired, and Dr. Prasad was sent there. He was the only professor of mathematics there and he had to teach all the four degree classes. Before going to the college, he used to help two students in preparing for the D.Sc. degree.
In 1914, Sir Asutosh Mukherji, the then Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University, invited him to occupy the Ras Behari Ghosh chair of Applied Mathematics. After staying for four years at Calcutta, he came back to Banaras in 1917 to serve as the professor of mathematics at the Banaras Hindu University and honorary principal of the Central Hindu College, Banaras. Here he completely reorganized the teaching of mathematics. In 1923, he was once again invited to Calcutta, this time to occupy the chair of Hardinge Professor of Mathematics. He continued in this post till his death on 9th March, 1935 while attending a meeting of the Agra University.
Kedarnath Singh, born in 1934, is a noted Hindi poet of the modernist trend. He is appreciated mainly for the lyrical quality of his poems, perfectly in tune with his sensitive treatment of the multi-dimensional relationship between man and nature. His poems, marked by clarity and compassion, touch up on issues confronting his times. Although excessive use of imagery and symbolism filled his early poems, his poetry seems to have evolved over time, transforming itself in new directions. The general tendency in his poetry is that of capturing moods rather than being descriptive. He is known for his economy of words, never overstating his case.
He has retired as professor in the School of Indian Languages, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi. He has edited an anthology of Hindi poetry
after 1960 for the Sahitya Akademi and has translated into Hindi the poetry
of Brecht, Baudelaire, and Rilke.
Akala mem sarasa received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1989. He
has also received the Hindi Akademi Award and the much coveted "Kumaran
Asan" (Kerala) Award.
The Library of Congress has nine of his works and two on him.
Janeshwar Mishra(Chhote Lohiya) - Politician-
The Samajwadi Party’s agitation against the state government over
price hike and corruption on January 19 in Allahabad was the last
demonstration Mishra attended. “In fact, he sat at dharna at the
district collectorate for six hours on the coldest day in the district.
After agitation, he made complaints of congestion in the chest,” a
source said.
On Thursday evening, after taking medicine for cold, Mishra went
to the “Chintan Shivir” office of the party at the Magh Mela. During the
night, he became restless and could not sleep because of breathing
problem. “The next morning, we took him to the medical college where he
was advised CT scan for head. We wanted to take him to SGPGI but due to
his deteriorating condition, we admitted him at the T B Sapru hospital
situated near his residence but he could not be saved,” said his younger
daughter Meena Tiwari.
Mishra was living in a HIG flat at Beli Road with his nephew. His wife Gangotri Devi died long ago.
“It’s a great loss to all socialists and the Samajwadi Party.
Leader of his stature hardly has any parallel in Indian politics. He was
not only a Samajwadi Party leader. In fact, he commanded respect from
leaders of rival parties as well,” said Amar Singh, who along with
Rampur MP Jaya Prada paid homage to Mishra at the latter’s residence.
Personal loss for me: Mulayam
With the death of senior
SP leader Janeshwar Mishra, a glorious chapter of socialist movement has
come to an end, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said, adding it was a
personal loss for him. “Janeshwar Mishra’s presence gave us the feeling
of a mentor being around. He cherished strong belief in socialism and
policies of Ram Manohar Lohia,” said Yadav, who was in Etawah to attend
the ongoing Sefai Mahotsava. “His absence will be felt forever. This is
an end of an era,” he added. PTI
Dr. Janardan Chaturvedi - Translated Shrimad Bhagvat Geeta into Bhojpuri (regional language of eastern U.P. and Bihar) called "Janardan Geeta".Geographic features Suraha Tal Lake. Its circumference is about 25.6 km.[citation needed] Junction of Ganges and the Ghaghara rivers mark the eastern boundary of Ballia. The fairgrounds is at this point. 
