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Biography: Ramrai Mohanrai Munshi
Mr.Ramrai Mohanrai Munshi was born at Surat in 1892. He began his political career as one of the four personal volunteers of Lokamanya Tilak at the Surat Congress. In 1911 he worked as a volunteer at Bombay to relieve the plague stricken. Then he came into contact with Sir Phirojshah Mehta. He studied Economics under Sir Dinshaw Waccha and politics under Prof.O.V.Muller. In 1912 he graduated from the Bombay University.
K.L. Kamat/Kamat's Potpourri
Ramrai Mohanrai Munshi
He participated in the Provincial Political Conference and was the Secretary of the Home Rule League at Ahemdabad. He founded the Gujarat Village Officeres Union of which he became a President. In 1920 he suspended his practice and started the first daily in Gujarat called "Grama Swaraj". He organized the Farmers Federation in 1925. This Association has the membership of 549 villages and is doing valuable work in redressing grievances of the peasants.
His contacts with the village are active and living. He has specialized in Constitutional Law and submitted a memorandum to the League of Nations on the Indian National Policy. In the Civil Disobedience Movement he was imprisoned for two years. In 1932 he organized the All-India Rural Conference under the Presidentship of the late Mr.G.K Deodhar, which outlined the fundamentals of Indian National Rural Policy. It is a supplement to Sir M.Vishwarayya's Ten Year's industrial programme. His resolution on peasants Political Declaration adopted at the Daskroi Conference is regarded as the Character of the peasentry.
His political activities are many sided. He is practicing as a lawyer and is a journalist of repute. He is the President, Farmers Association, Ahemdabad, Vice chairman Daskroi Congress Committee and General Secretary All India Rural Conference. He is a editor of "The Star" the only English daily in Ahmedabad. He is elected a member of the A.I.C.C
He shines with luster of public esteem and the brilliancy of talent. He has devoted himself not to the success of his fortune but to the progress of humanity. His work in the village reveals a soul full of courageous friendship, and which leave their trace even in the heart of the ungrateful.
Source: Haripura Congress Souvenir, 1938
