Education
Born in a prominent Kayastha family in Shrinagar, Prasad took his early education in Chhapra and Patna before moving to Presidency College in Calcutta, where he completed his legal training.
Born in a prominent Kayastha family in Shrinagar, Prasad took his early education in Chhapra and Patna before moving to Presidency College in Calcutta, where he completed his legal training.
Prabhavati Devi was married to Jayaprakash Narayan and Vidyawati to Mrityunjaya Prasad, son of Rajendra Prasad. He met with Mahatma Gandhi in 1915 and was immediately taken in by him. He decided to get involved full-time in the freedom struggle and gave up his legal practice.
He was instrumental in Gandhi taking up the Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha, in which Gandhi handpicked Rajendra Prasad and Anugrah Narayan Sinha along with him to successfully lead the movement.
Gandhi was so impressed by Prasad"s dedication that he set aside a full chapter on him in his autobiographical book, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, called "The Gentle Bihari". Foreign the last ten years of his life he was severely infirmed, and died in 1946.