About the Author
Sri Badri Narain
Sinha IPS
Badri Narain Sinha rose from a purely rural
background in Bihar on the sheer strength of his merit to become a member of
the Indian Police Service of 1952 batch in Bihar cadre, the first one in his
family to do so.
He died in harness on 8th November
1979 even without completing his half-century.
Apart from the exceptional alchemy of brain and brawn that he displayed as
an administrator and police officer, he was a thinker, littérateur, poet, a
secular devout who broke bread with Muslims during the holy month of Ramzan as
much as practicing austere Hindu fast during the whole month of Karthik,
personifying in his life the multi-faceted moral actions that he highlights as Gandhi’s character and, therefore, his message in his
writings on the Mahatma.
EARLY LIFE
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Born 4th April, 1930 at Darbhanga, Bihar
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Completed MA in English Literature from Patna
University in 1949 at the age of 19
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Earlier Lecturer in English at C. M. College,
Darbhanga from where he had earlier obtained his BA degree
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Later worked as Lecturer at Ranchi College, Ranchi
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Started his literary pursuits as a teenager
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Articles written by him in his student days were
published in renowned dailies like ‘Aaj’, ‘Nav Rashtra’ and other
publications
LITERARY WORKS
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An acclaimed literary critic and reputed writer of
Hindi Literature
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Authored "PRATHMIKI" a landmark work in
Hindi criticism in 1965 and followed it up with "AAJ TAK KEE" in 1967,
its companion volume.
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Published "TATKA ADAM" a book of modern
Hindi poetry in 1966
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Also published a book in Hindi "AB
BAHU SEY SAB JAN HITAY" with the life of Mahatma Gandhi as its
subject in 1966
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Wrote "STUDENTS' REVOLT", a concise
book on students’ unrest.
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Awarded Special
Prize by the Uttar Pradesh Government for his magnum-opus unique research
and study on criminology entitled "AAPRADHIKI" in 1976. This
pioneering work, the first of its kind written originally in Hindi, won the
"Best Book of the year Award"
from the Bihar Rashtra Bhasha Parishad in 1978.
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Other works:
MAINA KE ULAJH GAYE
DAYNA (1966), a novelette in Hindi with four stories in a new genre
Yeh Hindi Hindavi
Hai (1966), an essay on the anti- Hindi agitation in south India
and relevance of a national language
Aaj Kay Sandarbh
Mein Gandhi, an essay on the trlrvance of Gandhi in today’s context
Ek Arthi Ek Janaja (1967), a short story on
two friends, one Hindu and other Moslem, killed in communal riots when he was
SP Bhagalpur, which he wrote overnight in the Police control room, got printed
and distributed the next day, thereby helping restore sanity to the madding
mobs and bring back normalcy to the town in a short time.
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Works published posthumously:
Translated his
Hindi epic on Mahatma Gandhi into English, captioned as "MAN
THOU CAN" a portrait in poetry of Bapu wherein he delineated
Gandhi’s life in seven cantos equivalent to the seven colours of rainbow. It was
got published posthumously in the year 1982 by his eldest son Sri Anandvardhan
Sinha, IAS and the book was released by the then Governor of Bihar Dr. A. R.
Kidwai in August 1983.
"AGANTUKA"
a collection of poems in Hindi was published by his eldest son Sri Anandvardhan
Sinha, IAS in the year 1984
JP’s Movement (Feb, 1993) is a
ringside account of the historic movement led by Jayprakash Narayan in the
mid-seventies (1974-77) of 20th Century, calling for “Total
Revolution”, leading to the promulgation of the infamous National Emergency on
June 25-26th 1975 and eventual defeat of Indira Gandhi at the
hustings during the Parliamentary elections in March 1977
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Translations
His second son, Adhar Sinha IAS, following in his
brother’s footsteps had the privilege of getting translated into Telugu MAN
THOU CAN as ‘Manishi Nee ke Asadhyam Aedi!’ and publish as a
bilingual edition with the original in the year 2001.
Jayprakash Aandolan: Ek Jhalak, translation of JP’s
Movement into Hindi
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Unpublished works
"The
Naxalite Movement’’ a study of the Naxalite Movement in India with
special reference to Bihar
HEY GANGEY &
BHAR MASS SANYAS (Month-long Penance) his spiritual
diaries
JHANKIYAN, a compilation of
short stories written from time to time
ADAM TO ADAM
Pratinidhi Gaddya, jointly with his
wife Smt. Indu Prabha Sinha, MA, a compilation of representative Hindi essays,
memoirs, editorials, plays and other forms of modern prose
Hindi Criticism:
Past, Present and Future
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Founder-Editor of "BIHAR POLICE PATRIKA"
the official organ of the Bihar Police, a mantle which he carried till his
premature end.
POLICE SERVICE
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Appointed to the Indian Police Service in 1952
· Training at IPS Academy at Mt. Abu, Rajasthan
· Training at IPS Academy at Mt. Abu, Rajasthan
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Served as Assistant Superintendent of Police, Sasaram
from 1955 to 1956
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Served in Bihar Military Police as
Commandant 2nd Battalion,
Dehri-on-Sone from 1957 to 1958
Founder Commandant 8th Battalion,
Phulvarisharif, Patna 1964-1965
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Served as Superintendent of Police at four places
Superintendent of Police, Champaran for 3 years
from 1958 to 19613
Superintendent of Police, Bhagalpur for 3 years
from 1965 to 1968
Superintendent of Railway Police, Muzaffarpur
for 2 years 1968-70
Senior
Superintendent at Police, Ranchi from 1970 to 1971
· Promoted and appointed Deputy Inspector General of
Police and Member Secretary, Bihar Police Manual Revision Committee in June
1971. He took up the onerous task of revising and
translating the outdated Bihar Police Manual single-handedly and with
single-minded dedication as the so called committee existed on paper only.
· Deputed to Government of India
Appointed as Chief Security Officer, National
Coal Development Corporation, Ranchi from 1972 to 1974.
He was instrumental in taking over private coal
mines into NCDC’s control and set up regular security force as precursor of
CISF.
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Worked as Deputy Inspector General of Police, Central
Range, Patna from 1974 to 1977
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Later Deputy Inspector General of Police, Criminal
Investigation Department (CID) till his death in harness on 8th November,
1979
RECOGNITIONS &
DISTINCTIONS
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Was awarded the Indian
Police Medal in 1971 for his meritorious and distinguished services
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Decorated with the President's Police Medal in August, 1979, just before his premature
death
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Lectured at
o Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police
Academy, Mount Abu, Rajasthan and later at Hyderabad when it was shifted there
in 1975
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Administrative Training Institute, Ranchi
o
Police Training College, Hazaribagh
o
Internal Security Academy, Mount Abu
o
Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta
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Contributor to the Journal of Lal Bahadur Shastri
National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie
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Wrote extensively in newspapers and magazines.
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Gave talks on All India Radio from Patna
station.
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Sahityakar Badri Narain Sinha: A Critical Analysis of His Works was compiled on
his life and works up to 1965 by Editors Goswami Madan Gopal “Arvind” &
Nripendra Nath Gupta M.A, Publisher Bhagwati Prasad
Agarwal, Vikramshila Sahitya Sammelan, Kahalgaon,
Bhagalpur, 7th May 1966 price Rs.2/-
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‘From Naxalbari to Ekbari’ printed in The Searchlight, Patna, June 11-13, 1975
As DIG (Naxalite operations), Sinha showed rare intellectual integrity and courage by writing three
articles in the English daily The Searchlight recognising the Naxalite
movement as a socio-economic and political issue and not just as a mere
policing job.
In these pioneering articles, Sinha stated, “putting in zealous and
dedicated social reformers drawn from all shades to bring about transformation
on the socio-cultural planes’ is as much a part of ‘the counter-insurgency
measures’ as ‘concentrated police operations or operations by the special task
forces, may be from the supreme armed formation, the army itself.”
This has been seen as major critical interpretation of the movements like Bhoodan in India started by Vinoba Bhave.
The author describes Sinha as ‘an
erudite and knowledgeable police chief’.
Adapted from
Arvind N. Das, (Ed.), Agrarian Movements in India: Studies on 20th Century
Bihar, First Published in 1982 in Great Britain by Frank Cass and Company
Limited, and in United States of America by Frank Cass and Company Limited.
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Public Contribution
Founder of Shankar Shah Vikramashila (SSV)
Mahavidyalaya at Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district while working as SP there by
pooling public contribution including a big building on a hillock from a
philanthropist after whom he prefixed the name of the college based on the
famous ancient Vikramashila University.
Vikramashila was one of the two most important
centers of Buddhist learning in India during the Pala empire, along with Nalanda, established by King Dharmapala (783 to 820) in response to a supposed decline in
the quality of scholarship at Nalanda.
Thus he pioneered many decades ago what is now
advocated as Public-private partnership (PPP) model of development, tangibly fostering the
concept of community
policing in India and building
bridges to contain students' unrest.
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A spiritualist and a humanist.
