Sri Dev Suman (25 May 1916 – 25 July 1944) was a social activist from Tehri District of Uttarakhand. He was born at Jaul village of Tehri Garhwal.
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Sri Dev Suman: The Hero of Garhwal Born on 25 may 1916, in the village Jaul of Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, Sri Dev Suman was best known as a group leader of freedom fighters active in Tehri. His father Shri Hari Dutt Badoni was a well known Vaidya ( Practitioner of Ayurveda ). His mother Shrimati Tara Devi was a housewife. Although Suman’s real name was Shri Dutt Badoni however later on as he contributed in the revolution of freedom he was renamed as Sri Dev Suman. He had his early education In Chamba and Tehri. In 1930 Sri Dev Suman was only 14 years old when he participated in “ Namak Satyagraha ” in Dehradun. And at that very time, he was arrested and sentenced to the imprisonment of 15 days in the Agra Central Jail. Where he wrote the following lines on our beloved motherland; "आज जननी है उगलती, अग्नियुक्त अंगार माँ जी, आज जननी कर रही है, रक्त का श्रृंगार मां जी। इधर मेरे मुल्क में स्वाधीनता संग्राम मां जी, उधर दुनिया मे मची है, मार काट महान मां जी।।" In his early life, he became a key orga…
