Sir Chhotu Ram:
Born in 1881, he was a prominent politician in British India’s Punjab Province.
He championed the interest of oppressed communities of the Indian subcontinent. For this feat, he was knighted in 1937.
He was a co-founder of the National Unionist Party.
The enactment of two agrarian laws was primarily due to his contribution- the Punjab Relief Indebtedness Act of 1934 and the Punjab Debtor’s Protection Act of 1936, which emancipated the peasants from the clutches of the moneylenders and restored the right of land to the tiller.