Background
Jainendra Kumar was born as Anandi Lal on January 2, 1905, in Kodiyaganj, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
Jainendra Kumar was born as Anandi Lal on January 2, 1905, in Kodiyaganj, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
He explored the human psyche in novels such as Sunita and Tyagapatra. lieutenant was here that he got his name Jainendra Kumar. He left the place in 1912 and went to give metric exams in private in 12 from Punjab.
Thereafter he joined Banaras Hindu University (Banaras Hindu University), for higher education, though he left even that in the favour of joining the Non-cooperation movement of Mahatma Gandhi.
He started writing around 1926, after unsuccessfully trying hand at business in Calcutta. His first collection of stories title Phansi (फांसी) came out in 1930.
He was closely involved in the Indian Freedom Struggle. Along with Munshi Premchand, he established the Hindustani Sabhaa in Lahore where Doctor Zakir Hussain and Josh Malihabadi were some of the noted members.
After the death of Premchand, he became the editor of Hans.
He was closely associated with the luminaries of Indian Freedom Struggle like Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave, Ravindra Nath Tagore and others He died on December 24, 1988.