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|name             = Jayaprakash Narayan

|birth_name       = Jayaprakash Narayan

|image           = Jawaharlal Nehru with Jayaprakash Narayan (cropped).jpg

|caption         =  

|birth_date       = {{Birth date|df=yes|1902|10|11}}

|death_date       = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1979|10|08|1902|10|11}}

|birth_place     = [[Sitab Diara]], [[Saran district]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br/>(present day [[Bihar]], India)

|death_place     = [[Patna]], [[Bihar]], India

|nationality     = [[Indian people|Indian]]

|occupation       = {{hlist|Activist|theorist|politician}}  

|alma_mater       =[[University of Wisconsin]] (M.A., Sociology)<br>[[Ohio State University]] (B. A., Behavioral Science)<br>[[University of Iowa]] (CHE, discontinued)<br>[[University of California, Berkeley|U.C. Berkley]] (Chemistry, discontinued)<ref name="indiatimes1"/><ref name="nytimes1975"/>

|spouse           = [[Prabhavati Devi]]  

|relatives       = [[Brajkishore Prasad]] (father-in-law)

|other_names     = JP, Jay Prakash Narayan, ''Lok Nayak''

|movement         = [[Quit India]], [[Sarvodaya]], [[JP Movement]]

|party           = [[Indian National Congress]]<br/>[[Janata Party]]

|awards           = {{Unbulleted_list|[[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] (1965)|[[Bharat Ratna]] (1999) (posthumously)}}

'''Jayaprakash Narayan''' ({{Audio|Jayaprakash Narayan.ogg|listen}}; 11 October 1902&nbsp;– 8 October 1979), popularly referred to as '''JP''' or '''''Lok Nayak''''' ([[Hindi]] for "People's leader"), was an [[Indian independence activist]], theorist, socialist and political leader.  He is also known as the "Hero of Quit India Movement" and he is remembered for leading the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]], for whose overthrow he had called for a "[[Bihar Movement|total revolution]]". His biography, ''Jayaprakash,'' was written by his nationalist friend and the writer of [[Hindi literature]], [[Rambriksh Benipuri]]. In 1999, he was posthumously awarded the [[Bharat Ratna]], India's highest civilian award, in recognition of his social work. Other awards include the [[Magsaysay award]] for Public Service in 1965.

Jayprakash Narayan was born on 11 October 1902<ref>{{cite book |title=Jayaprakash Narayan: His Life and Mission |first=Das |last=Ratan |publisher=Sarup & Sons |year=2007 |isbn=978-81-7625-734-3 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rdekxv8HsvMC&q=JayaPrakash%20Narayan%20children&pg=PA7}}</ref> in the village of Sitabdiara, [[Saran district]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (present-day [[Chhapra]] district, [[Bihar]], [[India]]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Prasad |first1=Bimal |title=A Revolutionary's Quest: Selected Writings of Jayaprakash Narayan |year=1980 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-561204-2 |page=IX |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/A_Revolutionary_s_Quest/mfIdAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=A+Revolutionary%27s+Quest&dq=A+Revolutionary%27s+Quest&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref> Sitabdiara is a large village, straddling two states and three districts — [[Saran district|Saran]] and [[Bhojpur district, India|Bhojpur]] in [[Bihar]] and [[Ballia district|Ballia]] in [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.livemint.com/Politics/7Cd1F6SGSytnijazy8dUiL/A-forgotten-heros-forgotten-legacy.html |title=A forgotten hero's forgotten legacy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816152410/http://www.livemint.com/Politics/7Cd1F6SGSytnijazy8dUiL/A-forgotten-heros-forgotten-legacy.html |archive-date=16 August 2017 }}</ref> His house was near the banks of the flood-prone [[Ghaghara]] river. Every time the river swelled, the house would get a little bit damaged, eventually forcing the family to move a few kilometres away to a settlement which is now known as Jay Prakash Nagar and falls in Uttar Pradesh.

Between 1947 and 1953, Jayaprakash Narayan was President of [[All India Railwaymen's Federation]], the largest labour union in the Indian Railways.<ref name="Bear">{{cite book|title= Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChDDThfsVFcC&pg=PA231|publisher = Columbia University Press|page =231|year=2007|last=Bear|first=Laura|isbn = 9780231140027}}</ref>

[[Category:Indian male social workers]]