Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, the great freedom fighter, extraordinary, thinker and a revolutionary of the movement for equality was born, on March 23, 1 9 1 0, in the town of Akbarpur near Ayodhya, the birth place, of Lord Rama. T oday this place is a district headquarter named Ambedkar, Nagar. The name of his father was Hiralal and his mother was Chanda, Devi.,.