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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sri Prakasa
| image = Sri Prakasa 1991 stamp of India.jpg
| office = 4th [[Governor of Maharashtra|Governor of Bombay]]<br>{{small|''(Maharashtra from [[Maharashtra Day|1960]])''}}
| term_start = 10 December 1956
| term_end = 16 April 1962
| 1blankname = Chief Minister
| 1namedata = [[Yashwantrao Chavan]]
| predecessor = [[Harekrushna Mahatab]]
| successor = [[P. Subbarayan]]
| office2 = 3rd [[Governor of Tamil Nadu|Governor of Madras State]]
| term_start2 = 12 March 1952
| term_end2 = 10 December 1956
| 1blankname2 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata2 = [[P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja]]<br>[[C. Rajagopalachari]]<br>[[K. Kamaraj]]
| predecessor2 = [[Krishna Kumarsinhji Bhavsinhji]]
| successor2 = [[A. J. John]]
| order3 = 2nd
| office3 = Governor of Assam
| term_start3 = 16 February 1949
| term_end3 = 27 May 1950
| 1blankname3 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata3 = [[Gopinath Bordoloi]]
| predecessor3 = Ronald Francis Lodge {{small|(Acting)}}
| successor3 = [[Jairamdas Daulatram]]
| office4 = 1st [[List of Indian High Commissioners to Pakistan|Indian High Commissioner to
Pakistan]]
| primeminister4 = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
| term_start4 = 1947
| term_end4 = 1949
| predecessor4 = ''Office Established''
| successor4 = Sita Ram
| birth_date = 3 August 1890
| birth_place = [[Varanasi]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|6|23|1890|8|3|df=y}}
| death_place =
| alma_mater = Central Hindu Boys School
[[University of Cambridge]]
}}
'''Sri Prakasa''' (3 August 1890 – 23 June 1971) was an Indian politician, freedom-fighter and administrator. He served as India's first High Commissioner to Pakistan from 1947 to 1949, Governor of Assam from 1949 to 1950, Governor of Madras from 1952 to 1956 and Governor of Bombay from 1956 to 1962.

Sri Prakasa was born in Varanasi in 1890. In his early days, he participated in the Indian independence movement and was jailed. After India's independence, he served as an administrator and cabinet minister. Sri Prakasa died in 1971 at the age of 80.

== Early life ==
Sri Prakasa was born on 3 August 1890 in [[Varanasi]] to [[Bhagwan Das]].<ref name="dnbp259">{{cite book|title=Dictionary of national biography|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.11634|author=Siba Pada Sen|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.11634/page/n331 259]|publisher=Institute of Historical Studies|year=1974}}</ref> He had his schooling at Central Hindu Boy's School C.H.B.S (B.H.U) Varanasi and graduated from [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]].<ref name="dnbp259" /><ref name="rajeshwardayalp56">{{cite book|title=A life of our times|pages=56|author=Rajeshwar Dayal|publisher=Orient Blackswan|year=1998|ISBN=978-81-250-1546-8}}</ref>

== Indian independence movement ==
Prakasa was arrested during the [[Quit India Movement]] and was in jail from 1942 to 1944.<ref name="gundeviap321">{{cite book|title=Outside the Archives|author=Y. D. Gundevia|pages=321|publisher=University of Nevada|year=1985|ISBN=978-0-86131-723-3}}</ref>

== High Commissioner to Pakistan ==
In August 1947, Sri Prakasa was appointed India's first High Commissioner to Pakistan and served in the post till 1949. During this time, Pakistan was gripped by communal riots and Sri Prakasa had to deal with the influx of refugees to India and the granting of Indian citizenship to migrants. Sri Prakasa had also to represent India's diplomatic interests during Pakistan's invasion of Kashmir.

== Governor of Assam ==
Sri Prakasa served as the Governor of Assam from 16 February 1949 to 27 May 1949. When Prakasa took over as governor, there were serious disturbances in the eastern parts of the province which were inhabited by the Mizo Hill tribes. {{citation needed|date=August 2012}} The Governor pacified the agitators by promising to grant sufficient autonomy As a result, a Lushai Hills Advisory Council was set up. {{citation needed|date=August 2012}} During his short tenure, he secured the accession of [[Manipur]].<ref name="neindiap110">{{cite book|title=India and North-East India: mind, politics and the process of integration, 1946–1950|pages=110|author=Sajal Nag|publisher=Daya Books|year=1998|ISBN=978-81-86030-76-9}}</ref><ref name="parrattp112">{{cite book|title=Wounded Land: Politics and Identity in Modern Manipur|author=John Parratt|publisher=Mittal Publications|ISBN=978-81-86030-76-9|pages=112}}</ref>

== Governor of Madras ==
Sri Prakasa was elected to Lok Sabha from [[Allahabad (Lok Sabha constituency) | Allahabad]] in 1952 but was quite soon appointed as the Governor of Madras. He served as the Governor of Madras from 1952 to 1956. While governor, he took the highly criticized decision to invite politician [[C. Rajagopalachari]] to form a Congress government in the state despite the fact that the Indian National Congress did not have a majority and Rajagopalachari was not an elected member of the assembly as he had not participated in the elections.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19971108/31250413.html |title=Leader, amend thy mind |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=8 November 1997 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924055217/http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19971108/31250413.html |archive-date=24 September 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1539375.cms |work=[[The Times of India]] |title=Towards a new political culture |date=20 May 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070619081340/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1539375.cms |archive-date=19 June 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Mehta |first1=Pratap Bhanu |author1-link=Pratap Bhanu Mehta |title=Party Powered - The office of the governor exposes the Congress’s Achilles heel |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050303/asp/opinion/story_4445928.asp |access-date=4 November 2021 |work=[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]] |date=3 March 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050308183204/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1050303/asp/opinion/story_4445928.asp |archive-date=8 May 2005}}</ref>Rajagopalachari requested Prakasa to nominate him to the assembly thereby foregoing the usual process of election by the members of the assembly. However, Rajagopalachari resigned in two years because of strong opposition to his leadership among party ranks. [[P.C. Alexander]], a former [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Maharashtra]] governor, viewed the behaviour of the Governor and the Chief Minister of Madras in 1952 as one of the most serious breaches of the democratic process.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-miscellaneous/tp-others/of-governors-and-chief-ministers/article27937510.ece | title=Of Governors and Chief Ministers | date=31 May 2001 | work=[[The Hindu]] | access-date=4 November 2021}}</ref>

== Governor of Bombay ==
Sri Prakasa served as the Governor of Bombay.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}

== Notes ==

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