Dhani Ram Prem (1904–1979) was a naturalized British political activist, social worker and physician of Indian origin.
[1][2][3] He was the first councillor of Asian origin of Birmingham, representing the Labour Party at Great Barr, in south Staffordshire when he was elected in 1946.
[7] Dhani Prem was born in 1904 in Aligarh in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh[7] and lost his parents before he turned two.
[10] Returning to India during the Great Depression of the 1930s, he failed to find a job as a medical practitioner and had to work as an editor of a literary magazine by name, Chand.
He was associated with the Race Relations Council of Birmingham as a member and was the chairman of the Midlands India League and the Finance subcommittee of the Coleshill Group of Hospitals.
[5] His efforts were reported behind the establishment of a local radio station and served as an advisor to the British Broadcasting Corporation for their Asian programmes.
[15] Sterilization was a birth control method practised in India at that time but the suggestion invited widespread criticism in England.