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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Jairamdas Daulatram
|image = Jairamdas Daulatram 1985 stamp of India.jpg
|caption = Jairamdas Daulatram on a 1985 stamp of India
|order = 3rd
|office = Governor of Assam
|term_start = 27 May 1950
|term_end = 15 May 1956
|1blankname = Chief Minister
|1namedata = [[Gopinath Bordoloi]]<br>[[Bishnuram Medhi]]
|predecessor = [[Sri Prakasa]]
|successor = [[Fazal Ali]]
|office1 = 2nd [[Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare|Minister of Agriculture]]
|primeminister1 = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
|term_start1 = 19 January 1948
|term_end1 = 13 May 1950
|predecessor1 = [[Rajendra Prasad]]
|successor1 = [[Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi]]
|order2 = 1st
|office2 = Governor of Bihar
|term_start2 = 15 August 1947
|term_end2 = 11 January 1948
|1blankname2 = Chief Minister
|1namedata2 = [[Shri Krishna Sinha]]
|predecessor2 = Sir [[Hugh Dow]] {{small|(As Governor under British rule)}}
|successor2 = [[Madhav Shrihari Aney]]
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|7|21|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Karachi]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|3|1|1891|7|21|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Delhi]], [[India]]
|party = [[Indian National Congress]]
|occupation = Politician
}}
'''Jairamdas Daulatram''' (21 July 1891 – 1 March 1979) was an Indian political leader in the [[Indian independence movement]]. After India's independence, Daulatram served as the [[Governor]] of the Indian states of [[Bihar]] and later [[Assam]].

==Early life==
Jairamdas Daulatram was born into a [[Sindhi people|Sindhi]] [[Hindu]] family in [[Karachi]], [[Sindh]], which was then part of the [[Bombay Presidency]] in [[British India]] on 21 July 1891.

His academic career was brilliant throughout. After taking his degree in law, he started a legal practice, but soon gave it up as it often led to conflict with his conscience. In 1915, Jairamsingh came into personal contact with Mahatma Gandhi, who had then returned from South Africa, and became his devoted follower. At the Amritsar session of the Indian National Congress in 1919, he worded Gandhi's resolution in such a way that it avoided an impending rift between Gandhi and his other Congress colleagues. Since then Gandhi came to repose great faith in him. Gandhi spoke of him as 'one of the greatest persons in India'. He compared him with pure gold saying : 'I swear by Jairamdas. Truer man I have not had the honour of meeting.' Jairamdas enjoyed the trust and affection of Mrs. Sarojini Naidu who described his as a 'Lamp in the Desert' because of his services in the Sindh, which was mostly a desert. His ties with Sardar Patel and Dr. Rajendra Prasad were also very close.

==Freedom struggle==
Jairamsingh Daulatram became a participant as an activist in the [[Home Rule Movement]] led by [[Annie Besant]] and [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], demanding "[[Home Rule]]", or self-government and [[Dominion]] status for India within the [[British Empire]]. He also joined the [[Indian National Congress]], which was the largest Indian political organisation. Daulatram was deeply influenced by the philosophy of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], which advocated simple living, and a struggle for independence through ''[[ahimsa]]'' (non-violence) and ''[[satyagraha]]''.<ref name="A">{{cite book|title=An Unifinished Autobiography|author=Māmaṇi Raẏachama Goswāmī, Praphulla Kaṭakī|pages=4–5|publisher=Sterling Publishers|year=2002|isbn=978-81-207-2428-0}}</ref> perhaps Gandhi's sweetest relations were with Jairamdas. At the Amritsar session of the Congress, 1919, acute differences had arisen on the reforms resolution between Gandhiji on the one hand and Tilak, C.R. Das and Mohammed Ali on the other. Recalled Gandhiji years later: ``Jairamdas, that cool- headed Sindhi, came to the rescue. He passed me a slip containing a suggestion and pleading for a compromise. I hardly knew him. Something in his eyes and face captivated me. l read the suggestion. It was good. I passed it on to Deshbandhu. "Yes, if my party Will accept it" was his response. Lokmanya said, "I don't want to see it. If Das has approved, it is good enough for me.' Malaviyaji (who was presiding anxiously) overheard it, snatched the paper from my hands and, amid deafening cheers, announced that a compromise had been arrived at."

When Gandhiji was launching the [[Salt March]] in 1930, he wrote to Jairamdas, who was then member of the Bombay Legislative Council: ``I have taken charge of the Committee for Boycott of Foreign Cloth. I must have a whole-time secretary, if that thing is to work. And I can think of nobody so suitable like you.'' Jairamsingh immediately resigned his seat, took up the new charge, and made a tremendous success of the boycott of foreign cloth.

Daulatram participated in the [[Non-cooperation movement]] (1920–1922), agitating against British rule through [[non-violence|non-violent]] [[civil disobedience]]. Daulatram rose in the ranks of the Congress and became one of its foremost leaders from Sindh. He was a leading activist in the Salt March (1930–31) and the [[Quit India movement]] (1942–45), being imprisoned by British authorities. Daulatram was shot and wounded in the thigh when police opened fire on street protestors agitating outside a magistrate's court in Karachi in 1930.<ref name="A"/>

==Post-independence==
India became an independent nation on 15 August 1947 but was simultaneously [[Partition of India|partitioned]] to create a separate [[Muslim]] state of [[Pakistan]]; Daulatram's native Sindh was included in Pakistan, of which Karachi became the national capital. Daulatram stayed in India and was appointed the first Indian [[Governor of Bihar]], a post he held until 1948, when he was appointed the Union Minister for Food Supply. Daulatram represented a constituency from [[East Punjab]] in the [[Constituent Assembly of India]] and contributed in drafting and shaping the [[Constitution of India]].<ref name="B">{{cite web|title=The Constitution-framers India forgot|url=http://www.rediff.com/india60/2007/nov/06rishi.htm|publisher=Rediff.com|date=6 November 2007|accessdate=10 September 2010}}</ref> He served as a member of the advisory, union subjects, and provincial constitution committees.<ref name="B"/> From 1950 to 1956, Daulatram served as the [[Governor of Assam]].<ref name="B"/>
When he was Governor of Assam he had explained Major Bob Ranenglao Khathing about the limitations of the central government regarding reaching Tawang. Major Bob along with TC Allen last British intelligence officer touched Tawang on February 7, 1951; and raised Indian flag at Tawang. Thus, Jairamdas Daulatram was in a way, instrumental in raising Indian flag at Tawang.
Ref: June 2020, Road to Galwan, From Where It Began
By Deepti Singh
Published by notion press.com

==Preservation of Sindhi literature==
Jairamsingh Daulatram was one of the founding members of the Akhil Bharat Sindhi Boli Ain Sahit Sabha (All India Sindhi Language and Literature Congress).<ref name="D">{{cite web|title=Office-Bearers – Akhil Bharat Sindhi Boli Ain Sahit Sabha|url=http://www.sindhisahitsabha.com/officebearers.htm|publisher=Sindhi Sahit Sabha|accessdate=10 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513023738/http://www.sindhisahitsabha.com/officebearers.htm|archive-date=13 May 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References==
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years= 15 August 1947 – 11 January 1948|
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