Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t28.4

v2.c10.s2.t28.4

degree. Afterwards, he worked at a school affiliated to National College. He took an active part in the patriotic movement against Britain when he was still a student and used to be the leader of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army, an anti-Britain patriotic organisation. In 1932, he was put in prison where he started his writing career. In 1940, he was arrested again and was released after the end of Second World War. He died of an illness in Lucknow on December 26, 1976.