Background
Hargovind Pant was born to Anandi Devi and Pandit Dharmanand Pant on 19 May 1885.
Hargovind Pant was born to Anandi Devi and Pandit Dharmanand Pant on 19 May 1885.
He was elected deputy speaker of the United Provinces legislature on 4 January 1951. Pant got his primary education in a village school for which he had to walk a distance of three miles every day. He passed his intermediate examination in the first division in 1905 from Government College of Almora.
He graduated from Muir Central College Allahabad and subsequently got his Bachelor of Laws degree from School of Law, Allahabad in the year 1909.
Pant started his law practice in the year 1910 at Ranikhet. He contributed lavishly for starting local papers with nationalistic ideas so that the masses could be educated and informed about political awakening in the country and he himself started Kumaon Parishad, the first political organization in Uttarakhand.
He was raised in the Himalayas when Indian Nationalism had taken root in the minds of educated Indian people which had revolutionary potentialities.
