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Devendra Swarup, a Historian and Journalist of repute has been living a social life for over 65 years. Born in 1926 in Kanth, a small town in district of Moradabad in erstwhile United Province now called as Uttar Pradesh in North India. Born to Vishnu Swarup and Ganga Devi, he took birth in a nationalist business family. Nationalism was in the roots of the family and brought up in that culture, at a young age of 15 years he stood against mighty British Rule and lead a protest against British Rule in his school. As a result he was expelled from the school. With the help of his influential Uncle, his enrollment was restored after 6 months. Brillient as he is, he covered the loss time with ease and passed his high school from the only school in his town.

After completing his High School from the hometown school, he had to move out to other town for further education as the village school did not have any school to allow him to continue his further education. At that time the town of Chandausi in Distt. Moradabad was the nearest town with the facility for higher education and mostly the students from nearby villages used to come there for completing School education. So Devendra ji's family also decided that he should move to Chandausi and Devendra jis moved out f the family to hostel in 1942. Here also the fire for independence from British Rule continued to burn inside him and he lead the ceremony for taking pledge for Independence in the school. As a result he was again rusticated from School for 2 months but this did not deter him from his nationalists activities.

After completing his schooling, he got admission to Banaras Hindu University (BHU) to complete his graduation (BSc in Geology).

Retired as a Reader in History from PGDAV college of Delhi University, he wrote his first article in 1959. Since then he has been writing continuously on all national issues ranging from Education to Politics; Economics to Culture; History to Religion. In his over 60 yrs of writing he has contributed over 1900 articles which have been published in various Journals and News papers of National Repute.

Penned more than 1900 articles, he has 10 volumes of his articles to his credit. hi friends list include persons like Sita Ram Goel.

He wrote a lonng series of articles on Marx's writings which is published under title Did Moscow played fraud on Marx's writings wherein he referred to Abani Mukherji in one of the article in this series.

Devendra Swarup has been a keen student of Muslim conversion in the country and edited a volume titled "Politics of Conversion" of a research Jounral of DeenDayal Research Institute. This book gave in detail, the impact of 1981 Meenakshipuram conversion on Indian Politics and rise of Rightist forces.