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	In 1930, Jayakar and Tej Bahadur Sapru were involved in negotiations between Congress and the Government when Motilal Nehru and other Congress members were imprisoned. These negotiations are said to have led to the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of March 1931 whereby Congress members were released from prison in return for the discontinuation of non-cooperation; the salt tax was removed and Congress members would be represented at the next Round Table Conference. Jayakar was a member of the Judicial Privy Council in London and attended the Round Table Conference in London in 1931. Jayakar was known for his educationist and philanthropist work. He received an honorary DCL from Oxford University in 1938, upon the recommendation of E. J. Thompson. He was Vice-Chancellor of Poona University from 1948 upon its foundation, until his retirement in 1955.<ref>{{cite news \|title=The Open University Making of Britain\|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/m-r-jayakar}}</ref>		In 1930, Jayakar and Tej Bahadur Sapru were involved in negotiations between Congress and the Government when Motilal Nehru and other Congress members were imprisoned. These negotiations are said to have led to the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of March 1931 whereby Congress members were released from prison in return for the discontinuation of non-cooperation; the salt tax was removed and Congress members would be represented at the next Round Table Conference. Jayakar was a member of the Judicial Privy Council in London and attended the Round Table Conference in London in 1931. Jayakar was known for his educationist and philanthropist work. He received an honorary DCL from Oxford University in 1938, upon the recommendation of E. J. Thompson. He was Vice-Chancellor of Poona University from 1948 upon its foundation, until his retirement in 1955.<ref>{{cite news \|title=The Open University Making of Britain\|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/m-r-jayakar}}</ref>

			He was also Chairman of the Advisory Board of Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute.

	He died on 10 March 1959 at Bombay at the age of 86.<ref>{{ cite news \| title=Dr M R Jayakar \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/11/stories/2009031151120903.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107093128/http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/11/stories/2009031151120903.htm \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=7 November 2012 \|accessdate=8 February 2010 \|location=Chennai, India \| work=[[The Hindu]] \|date=11 March 2009}}</ref>		He died on 10 March 1959 at Bombay at the age of 86.<ref>{{ cite news \| title=Dr M R Jayakar \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/11/stories/2009031151120903.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107093128/http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/11/stories/2009031151120903.htm \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=7 November 2012 \|accessdate=8 February 2010 \|location=Chennai, India \| work=[[The Hindu]] \|date=11 March 2009}}</ref>

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'''Makund Ramrao Jayakar''' (13 November 1873 – 10 March 1959, Bombay) was the first Vice-Chancellor of the [[ University of Poona]]. He was a renowned Lawyer, scholar and politician. He was a prominent freedom fighter.<ref name="Hackett 2012 p. 101">{{cite book | last=Hackett | first=P.G. | title=Theos Bernard, the White Lama: Tibet, Yoga, and American Religious Life | publisher=Columbia University Press | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-231-53037-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YS1FAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA101 | access-date=2020-06-10 | page=101}}</ref>

Jayakar was born in a [[Marathi people|Marathi]] [[Pathare Prabhu]] family.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Myth of the Lokamanya: Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra|publisher=University of California Press|url=https://archive.org/details/mythoflokamanya00rich|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/mythoflokamanya00rich/page/190 190]|author=Richard I. Cashman|year=1975|isbn=9780520024076|quote=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}}</ref>

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. 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 [[Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha]]. He took part in the [[All Parties Conference]] in 1928, and was pivotal in denying demands of Muslim League put forward by [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]].

He was elected to the Constituent Assembly on a Congress ticket from Bombay. However after a brief stint in the Assembly, he gave up his seat which Babasaheb Dr. [[B. R. Ambedkar]] then occupied.<ref>{{cite news |title=Constituent Assembly Debates |url=https://cadindia.clpr.org.in/constituent_assembly_members/dr__m__r__jayakar}}</ref> <ref>{{cite book |author=P. Rajeshwar Rao|title=The Great Indian Patriot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eTrs9MF9374C|year=1991|isbn=9788170992882|page=30}}</ref>

In 1930, Jayakar and Tej Bahadur Sapru were involved in negotiations between Congress and the Government when Motilal Nehru and other Congress members were imprisoned. These negotiations are said to have led to the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of March 1931 whereby Congress members were released from prison in return for the discontinuation of non-cooperation; the salt tax was removed and Congress members would be represented at the next Round Table Conference. Jayakar was a member of the Judicial Privy Council in London and attended the Round Table Conference in London in 1931. Jayakar was known for his educationist and philanthropist work. He received an honorary DCL from Oxford University in 1938, upon the recommendation of E. J. Thompson. He was Vice-Chancellor of Poona University from 1948 upon its foundation, until his retirement in 1955.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Open University Making of Britain|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/m-r-jayakar}}</ref>

He died on 10 March 1959 at Bombay at the age of 86.<ref>{{ cite news | title=Dr M R Jayakar |url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/11/stories/2009031151120903.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107093128/http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/11/stories/2009031151120903.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 November 2012 |accessdate=8 February 2010 |location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] |date=11 March 2009}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Free Press of India]]
*[[University of Pune]]

==References==
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