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Swami Sahajanand Saraswati (1889-1950) was a sanyasi as well as a revolutionary, who dedicated his life to the cause of political and economic independence of the Indian people. He was born in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh and renounced his home to become an ascetic. From 1924 to 1928 he propagated Gandhiji's constructive programme of Khadi  and prohibition. On April 19, 1940 the whole of Bihar observed Sahajanand Day in protest against his arrest. He was a powerful writer and ran the Hindi weekly Hunkar from patna and wrote many books on peasant problems and struggle.