The youngest child of six, his parents were contract laborers from Uttar Pradesh[4] to Suriname.

Lachmon left for Paramaribo when he was thirteen, and completed his school qualifications.

After a long search, he found the creole lawyer Julius Caesar de Miranda who became mentor.

[5] Surprised that a Creole was willing to teach an Indian made a great impression on the young Lachmon and laid the basis for his efforts towards reconciliation between the different ethnic groups.

In the 1955 Suriname election, the NPS lost heavily, and Lachmon withdrew one of its candidates to back Johan Adolf Pengel, in order to give him a better chance.

[11] In February 1974, Henck Arron, the Prime Minister at the time, announced that Suriname would be granted independence from the Netherlands at the end of 1975.

The ethnic tensions in the neighboring country, Guyana (formerly British Guiana) as an example of what could occur to Suriname if the government acted with blind haste.

[5] Lachmon died in a hotel room in The Hague, during an official visit to the Dutch government as chairman of a parliamentary delegation.