His son, Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam, has served as prime minister of Mauritius in the past and currently occupies the office.

Seewoosagur "Kewal" Ramgoolam, was born on 18 September 1900 at Belle Rive, Mauritius, in the district of Flacq in a Bhojpuri speaking Hindu Indo-Mauritian family.

His father, Moheeth Ramgoolam also known as Mohit Mahto was an Indian immigrant labourer belonging to the Koeri(Kushwaha) broader Vaishya community.

His elder brother, Ramlochurn, had left the home village of Harigaon in the Bhojpur district of Bihar in search of a better life abroad.

Sanskrit prayers and perennial values taken from sacred scriptures like the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita were also taught.

[7] The scholarship classes, which formed the basis of lower secondary schooling, permitted Ramgoolam to go straight for the Junior Cambridge at the Royal College, Curepipe, where he was educated by the likes of Reverend Fowler and Mr Harwood.

[7] In 1921, Ramgoolam set sail on one of the ships of the Messageries maritimes for Marseille, and continued by train to London, his final destination, with a transit of a couple of days in Paris.

Ramgoolam realised the increasing popularity of the new Labour Party leader Guy Rozemont, who succeeded Emmanuel Anquetil in 1946.

[10] In September 1940 and during the Second World War he became one of the founders of the Labour Party's newspaper Advance which advocated universal suffrage, economic reform and social justice.

Ramgoolam wrote a series of articles using pseudonym Thumb Mark II which challenged the island's established conservative sugar oligarchs.

[20] In fact, the die had already been cast as early as 1959 when Harold Macmillan had made his famous “Wind of change blowing over Africa” speech.

[8] In 1967 he cooperated with the Independent Forward Bloc (IFB) led by Sookdeo Bissoondoyal (who were advocating complete decolonization and removal of British administration from all Mauritian territories) and the Comité d'Action Musulman (CAM) led by Abdool Razack Mohamed (which campaigned for constitutional guarantees to protect the Muslim and other minority communities in an effort to prevent a circumstantial Hindu hegemony) to form the Independence Party (Mauritius).

[23] At the same time his political ally Gaetan Duval was made Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur.

He then assisted the newly formed party named MSM and its ex-MMM leader Anerood Jugnauth to win the 1983 elections.

Monuments to him also stand in the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden, on Caudan Waterfront in Port Louis, and even in the village of SSR's ancestor, near Patna, Bihar in India.