Editing Jayaprakash Narayan (section)

==Early life==
Jayaprakash Narayan Srivastava 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><ref name="Devasahayam"/> in the village of Sitab Diara, [[Chhapra district]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Ballia district]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India).<ref name="Birthplace">The village, '''Sitabdiara''', where '''J.P. was born''' is situated beside the confluence of the river Ghaghra with the Ganga, and its site has been changing with changes in the course of the rivers. When he was born, this village lay in the '''Chapra district of Bihar''', it now belongs to the '''Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh''' {{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://books.google.com/books?id=mfIdAAAAMAAJ&q=Sitabdiara |language=en}}</ref>{{efn|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 be slightly damaged, eventually forcing the family to move a few kilometres away to a settlement that is now known as Jayaprakash Nagar, Uttar Pradesh.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

Narayan came from a [[Kayastha]] family of [[Srivastava]] clan.<ref>{{cite book |title=Jayaprakash Narayan: A Centenary Volume |first=Sandip |last=Das |publisher=Mittal Publications |year=2005 |isbn=978-81-8324-001-7 |page=109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9U0LiT3dtMC&pg=PA239 }}</ref><ref name="Devasahayam">{{cite book |last1=Devasahayam |first1=M. G. |title=India's Second Freedom: An Untold Saga |date=2004 |publisher=Siddharth Publications |isbn=978-81-7220-157-9 |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ozNuAAAAMAAJ&q=jayaprakash+narayan+srivastava |language=en |access-date=5 June 2023 |quote=asked him whether Narayan was his surname. He said no and said that he was, in fact, '''Jayaprakash Narayan Srivastava'''. Jayaprakash Narayan is his name and '''Srivastava''' is his surname. Conversations centred on the community of '''Kayasthas'''}}</ref> He was the fourth child of Harsu Dayal and Phul Rani Devi. His father was a junior official in the canal department of the state government and often toured the region. When Narayan was nine years old, he left his village to enrol in the seventh class of the collegiate school at Patna.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Scarfe, Allan |author2=Scarfe, Wendy |title=J. P., His Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5IiKlr-AnUC&pg=PR9|year=1998|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-1021-0|page=30}}</ref> This was his first break from village life. Narayan stayed at Saraswati Bhawan, a student hostel in which most of the boys were older than him and included some of Bihar's future leaders, such as its first chief minister [[Krishna Singh (politician)|Krishna Singh]], his deputy [[Anugrah Narayan Sinha]] and several others who became politicians and academics.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bhattacharjea, Ajit |title=Jayaprakash Narayan: A Political Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMcJAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Vikas Publishing House|page=33|isbn=9780836401158}}</ref>

In October 1918, Narayan married Braj Kishore Prasad's elder daughter and independence activist [[Prabhavati Devi]].<ref name=Das2005p239 /> After their wedding, because Narayan was working in [[Patna]] and it was difficult for his wife to stay with him, [[Mahatma Gandhi]] invited Prabhavati to become an inmate at [[Sabarmati Ashram]] ([[Ahmedabad]]).<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=PA18}}</ref> Jayaprakash, along with some friends, went to listen to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad speak about Gandhi's [[Non-cooperation movement (1909–22)|non-cooperation movement]] against the passing of the [[Rowlatt Act]] of 1919. Azad was a brilliant orator and his call to give up English education was "like leaves before a storm: Jayaprakash has swept away and momentarily lifted up to the skies. That brief experience of soaring up with the winds of a great idea left imprints on his inner being".{{cn|date=November 2023}} Inspired by Azad's words, Jayaprakash left Bihar National College with just 20 days remaining to his examinations. Jayaprakash joined the Bihar Vidyapeeth, a college founded by [[Rajendra Prasad]], and became among the first students of Gandhian Anugraha Narayan Sinha.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}