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{{Short description|Indian civil servant and politician (1900–1988)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Surti Narayan Mani Tripathi
| honorific_prefix =
| birth_date = 1900
| birth_place = Barpar, [[Gorakhpur]], [[British India]]
| death_date = 1988
| death_place =
| alma_mater = [[University of Allahabad]]
| occupation = Civil servant, Politician
| known_for = First ICS of Uttar Pradesh, Founder President of [[Gorakhpur University]]
| office1 = [[Member of the Legislative Council]]
| term_start1 = 1967
| term_end1 = 1968
| office2 = [[Member of the Legislative Council]]
| term_start2 = 1974
| term_end2 = 1977
| office3 = [[Vice Chancellor]] of [[Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya]]
| education = St. Andrew's College<br>[[Muir Central College]]<br> [[University of Allahabad]]
}}

'''Surti Narayan Mani Tripathi''', also known as '''S.N.M. Tripathi''' and '''Pandit Tripathi''' (1900–1988), was an [[Indian civil servant]] and later a politician from [[Gorakhpur]], [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref name=Hindustan/><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Shashank Chaturvedi |author2=David N. Gellner |author3=Sanjay Kumar Pandey |title=Politics in Gorakhpur since the 1920s: the making of a safe 'Hindu' constituency |journal=Contemporary South Asia |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |date=11 January 2019|volume=27 |pages=40–57 |doi=10.1080/09584935.2018.1521785 |doi-access=free }}</ref> He was the first ICS of Uttar Pradesh and the founder president of [[Gorakhpur University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Eminent Personalities |url=https://gorakhpur.nic.in/personalities/ |website=www.gorakhpur.nic.in}}</ref> He served as a [[Member of the Legislative Council]] from Uttar Pradesh twice, first from 1967 to 1968 and in the second term from 1974 to 1977.<ref name=Hindustan>{{cite news |last1=Shukla |first1=Umesh |title=हमारे पितृ पुरूष: पैदल चलकर और नाला पार कर की पढ़ाई, बन गए कलेक्टर |url=https://www.livehindustan.com/uttar-pradesh/gorakhpur/story-surti-narayan-tripathi-struggle-for-education-become-dm-2193884.html |publisher=[[Live Hindustan]] |date=27 September 2018 |language=Hindi}}</ref> He served as the [[Vice Chancellor]] of [[Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya]] and played an important role in establishment of [[Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University|Gorakhpur University]].<ref name=Hindustan/> His Son [[Prakash Mani Tripathi]] (Lt. Gen. Retired )and grandson [[Shashank Mani|Shashank Mani Tripathi]]

== Early life ==
He was born in 1900 in the village of Barpar, [[Gorakhpur district]] into a [[Saryuparin Brahmin]] family. He began at the Lower Primary School in Barpar, followed by schools in Sirjam and [[Majhauli Raj]]. He completed high school at Government Jubilee School in 1918 and went on to St. Andrew's College for his intermediate studies. In 1921, he enrolled at [[Muir Central College]] in [[Allahabad]] for his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree, which he completed in 1923. He obtained his [[Master of Arts]] and [[Bachelor of Laws]] degrees from [[University of Allahabad]].<ref name=Hindustan/>

== Career ==
In 1925, he returned to [[Gorakhpur]] and practised law in the civil court. He was selected for the [[Provincial Civil Service (Uttar Pradesh)|PCS (Provincial Civil Service)]] in the same year and was posted to the [[Basti district]] for his first assignment. After India's independence in 1947, he was granted the [[Indian Administrative Service]] (IAS) cadre. He served as [[District magistrate]] of [[Gorakhpur district|Gorakhpur]], [[Allahabad district|Allahabad]], and [[Lucknow district|Lucknow]].<ref name=Hindustan/>

In 1956, Surti Narayan was appointed as a member of the [[Public Service Commission]], serving until 1961.<ref>Civic Affairs. (1956). India: P.C. Kapoor at the Citizen Press. Page 27.</ref> He then served as Senior Deputy Managing Director and Vice Chairman of the [[British India Corporation]] in Kanpur. In 1962, he was appointed Vice Chancellor of [[Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya|Sampurnanand Sanskrit University]] in [[Varanasi]].<ref name=Hindustan/>

=== Politics ===
In June 1966, SNM Tripathi retired from the [[Indian Civil Service]] and returned to Gorakhpur. He then entered into politics, contesting and winning the Gorakhpur-Faizabad graduate constituency in the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council]] (MLC) for the first time (1967–1968). Re-elected in 1974, he served another term as an MLC but chose not to contest further elections. Tripathi died in 1988.<ref name=Hindustan/>

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[[Category:1900 births]]
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[[Category:Members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council]]
[[Category:Politicians from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian civil servants]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]

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