M. R. Jayakar

Mukund Ramrao Jayakar (13 November 1873 - 10 March 1959, Bombay) was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Poona.

Jayakar was born in a Marathi Pathare Prabhu family.[1]

Jayakar studied LL.B. in Bombay in 1902 and became a barrister in 1905 at London. In 1905 he was enrolled as advocate of the Bombay High Court. He was Director of The Bombay Chronicle along with Jinnah.


He was a member of the Bombay Legislative Council during 1923-1925, and a leader of the Swaraj Party. He also became member of Central Legislative Assembly. In 1937 he became Judge of Federal Court of India at Delhi and in 1939 a Member of the Privy Council in London. In December 1946, he joined Constituent Assembly of India. He was also the chairman of Indian Road Development Committee, formed in 1927 to report some recommendations in the highway development. He was a member of Hindu Mahasabha. In the All parties conference(in which Muslims were ready to give up demands of separate electorate) he strongly opposed the efforts of compromise. Jayakar a noble person extremely talented but get back to replace B R Ambedkar for the membership of Constitute Assembly [2]

He died on 10 March 1959 at Bombay at the age of 86.[3]

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  1. ↑ Richard I. Cashman (1975). The Myth of the Lokamanya: Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra. Although more at home in the cosmopolitan center of Bombay, and a member of the Council of the Bombay Presidency Association, the Pathare Prabhu lawyer, Mukund Ramrao Jayakar (1873-1959), expressed the typical response
  2. ↑ P. Rajeswar Rao. "M R Jayakar - A Multi-Faced Gem". The Great Indian patriots, Volume 1.
  3. ↑ "Dr M R Jayakar". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 11 March 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
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