Editing Jayaprakash Narayan (section)

==Politics==
[[File:J P Narayan.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Narayan with Israeli prime minister [[David Ben-Gurion]] in [[Tel Aviv]], 1958]]

Having become a Marxist, Narayan returned from the US to India in late 1929.<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=230 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9U0LiT3dtMC&pg=PA239 }}</ref> The same year, he joined the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC or Congress) on the invitation of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]; [[Mahatma Gandhi]] became Narayan's mentor in the Congress. Narayan shared a house at Kadam Kuan in [[Patna]] with his close friend and nationalist [[Ganga Sharan Singh (Sinha)]]<ref name="Ralhan 2002 17998 at pages 73–74">{{cite book |first=O.P.|last=Ralhan
|title=Encyclopaedia of Political Parties |publisher=Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd. |year =2002 |pages =17998 (at pages 73–74) |isbn=978-81-7488-865-5}}</ref> with whom he shared a lasting friendship.<ref name="Ralhan 2002 17998 at pages 73–74"/>

After being jailed in 1930 for [[civil disobedience]] against British rule, Narayan was imprisoned in [[Nasik]] Jail, where he met [[Rammanohar Lohia]], [[Minoo Masani]], [[Achyut Patwardhan]], [[Asoka Mehta]], [[Basawon Singh]], Yusuf Desai, C K Narayanaswami and other national leaders. After his release, the [[Congress Socialist Party]] (CSP), a left-wing group within the Congress, was formed with [[Narendra Deva|Acharya Narendra Deva]] as president and Narayan as general secretary.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}

When Mahatma Gandhi launched the [[Quit India Movement]] in August 1942, Narayan, along with [[Yogendra Shukla]], Suraj Narayan Singh, Gulab Chand Gupta, [[Pandit Ramnandan Mishra]], Shaligram Singh and Shyam Barthwar, scaled the wall of Hazaribagh Central Jail with a goal of starting an underground movement for freedom.<ref name="Srivastava 1988">{{cite book|first=N.M.P. |last=Srivastava |title=Struggle for Freedom: Some Great Indian Revolutionaries |publisher=K.P.Jayaswal Research Institute, [[Government of Bihar]], [[Patna]] |year=1988}}</ref> Many young socialist leaders like Rammanohar Lohia, Chhotubhai Puranik and [[Aruna Asaf Ali]] took part in the movement. Because Narayan was ill, [[Yogendra Shukla]] walked to [[Gaya, India|Gaya]] with Narayan on his shoulders,<ref name="Srivastava 1988"/> a distance of about {{cvt|124|km}}.<ref>[https://maps.google.co.in/maps?saddr=Hazaribagh+Central+Jail,+Hazaribagh,+Jharkhand&daddr=Gaya,+Bihar&hl=en&sll=24.400154,85.161956&sspn=1.358153,2.705383&geocode=FbyIbgEdiIAWBSE11t7IkSieBylpMaxAKZz0OTE11t7IkSieBw%3BFescegEdP7gQBSkfPBsKRCrzOTGmNL-9I7L2zg&oq=gaya&t=h&dirflg=w&mra=ltm&z=9 Distance between Hazaribagh Central Jail and Gaya]. Maps.google.co.in. Retrieved on 20 November 2018.</ref> Narayan also served as the<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.patnadaily.com/index.php/opinions/readers-write/6819-bihar-vibhutis-legacy-drifting-into-oblivion.html |title=Bihar Vibhuti's Legacy Drifting into Oblivion?|work=Patna Daily|date=6 January 2012 |access-date=6 January 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125205713/http://www.patnadaily.com/index.php/opinions/readers-write/6819-bihar-vibhutis-legacy-drifting-into-oblivion.html |archive-date=25 January 2012 }}</ref> chairman of ''Anugrah Smarak Nidhi'' (Anugrah Narayan Memorial Fund).