Sachchidananda Sinha Biography 
Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha was an important parliamentarian and an educationist who was made as the first chairman of the first Constituent Assembly of India in 1946. He had a crucial role in the formation of the Bihar state and so is also called the Father of Bihar.
He was born in the year 1871 in Aarah in Bihar and pursued his higher education in law at London and became a Barrister. He married Radhika. He launched a movement for a separate Bihar as soon as he returned from England. With his strenuous efforts, the separate state of Bihar and Orissa came into existence in the year 1911. He was a member of the Congress party and served as its secretary once and also took part in the Home Rule League Movement.
After the death of Rai Bahadur Krishna Sahai, Sinha was appointed as the Member of the Bihar Governor’s Executive Council. In 1921 he was made as the Deputy President of the Indian Legislative Assembly and he got the privilege of being the first ever Indian to be appointed as the Finance Member of a province. In the Interim government that was formed in the year 1946, he was made as the President. On 9th December 1946, in the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of India held at the Constitution Hall in New Delhi, Acharya J. B. Kripalani conducted him to the Chair amidst acclamation to make him the temporary chairman of the assembly.
Dr. Sachichidananda Sinha worked hard to establish the Patna University. He served as the Vice Chancellor of the Patna University for eight long years from 1936 to 1944. It is noteworthy to mention the interesting matter that at that time, the draft of the Indian Constitution was brought to Patna to get his signature. Being an eminent educationist he advocated learning through mother tongue and not through English. He was also a social reformer. He was the only Kayastha of Bihar to go abroad for higher studies and so there were some agitation on that. However he refused to do penance and did not abide by the restrictions imposed by caste.
Sachchidananda Sinha also had good interest in journalism and brought out his own paper named Hindustan Review but had to close down soon for the lack of fund. He then started a biweekly named The Searchlight along with Hasan Imam.
This Father and Maker of Modern Bihar was also a voracious reader and a trenchant writer and had good collection of books. He established a public library at Patna in 1924 in the memory of his wife Radhika and those books were dedicated to that library. He led a methodical life and believed in what he was doing and he practically devoted his whole life to serve the country.
The rich biographical sketches of his contemporaries of Bihar were published in 1944 into two volumes as Some Eminent Behar Contemporaries and Some Eminent Indian Contemporaries. A college in Aurangabad founded by Akhouri Krishna Prakash Sinha in the year 1943 was named after him. He died in the year 1950.
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Updated: October 08, 2012
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