Ram Manohar Lohia was born on 23 March 1910 at Akbarpur in the present-day Uttar Pradesh, in a prosperous Vaishya family. His mother died in 1912, when he was just two years old, and he was later brought up by his father, who never remarried. He attended the Banaras Hindu University to complete his intermediate course work after standing first in his school's matriculation examinations in 1927.Dr Ram Manohar Lohia was a great freedom fighter, a veteran socialist, and a visionary thinker. He had warm bonds with Gandhi Ji, and on his thought process there are deep imprints of Gandhian concepts of nonviolence, decentralization, civil disobedience and satyagraha.