Lalai Singh Yadav
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Chaudhary Lalai Singh Bauddha | |
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| Born | 1 September 1911 Kathara, Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Died | 7 February 1993 (aged 81) |
| Language | Hindi |
| Nationality | Indian |
Periyar Lalai Singh Yadav (1 September 1911 – 7 February 1993) was a policeman who became a social justice activist and play writer.[1] He wrote plays like Shambhuk Vadh. He translated Periyar E. V. Ramasamy's The Key To Understanding True Ramayan from Tamil to Hindi as Sachi Ramayan Ki Chabi.[2][3][4] In 1962, he wrote a book entitled Baman Vadi Rajya Mein Shoshito Par Rajnaitik Dakaiti.[5] He fought a free speech case against the UP Government on his book ban.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
Periyar Lalai Singh Yadav was born on 1 September 1911 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, into a Yadav family. His father, Chaudhari Gajju Singh, was a farmer who owned agricultural land and a mango orchard, and was associated with the Arya Samaj movement.[12][13] Singh received formal education up to the middle level (equivalent to class seven) before briefly serving as a forest guard in 1929.[14] In 1931, he was married, and two years later, in 1933, he enlisted as a constable in the army of the princely state of Gwalior.[15]