Hucheshwar Gurusidha Mudgal

Hucheshwar Gurusidha Mudgal (2 September 1899, Hubli-19??) was an Indian political activist who became prominent in Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association working on the Daily Negro Times^[1] and Negro World.^[2] Born in India, he arrived in New York City in 1920, where he stayed for seventeen years.^[3]

He was educated at City College of New York and Columbia University where he gained an M.A.^[4]

He returned to India in 1937 where he became a member of parliament for the Congress Party, but was forced to resign in a corruption scandal in 1951.^[5] He published an article about Bal Gandharva in The Times of India in 1967.^[6]