Diwan Chaman Lall

Diwan Chaman Lall (30 October 1892 – 12 November 1973) was an Indian politician and diplomat who served as a Member of the Rajya Sabha.

Early life Chaman Lall was born on 30 October 1892 to Dewan Bahadur Daulat Rai. He received an honors degree in jurisprudence from Jesus College, Oxford, later called to the bar at Middle Temple in London. He worked a journalist, first for the art and literature quarterly magazine Coterie, in London, then as editor and Chief Leader Writer for the newspaper The Bombay Chronicle.

In freedom movement Lall was a founder and first general secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress in 1920, later becoming its President in 1927. He represented workers' interests at the first Round Table Conference in 1930–31. As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

After Independence He served as India's 1st Ambassador to Turkey from 1948 to 1950. He proposed in the bill, to exempt works of art, or publications meant for research, science or literature from the applicability of obscenity provisions. The amendment was passed in 1969.

Personal life He married Helen Khan and they had one son, Rahul. His two other sons were Prakash and Navin Prakash.