Who was the first Speaker of the Indian Lok Sabha?

The First Lok Sabha was constituted on April 17, 1952 after India's first general election. Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, fondly remembered as Dadasaheb Mavalankar, on whom the title 'Father of the Lok Sabha' was conferred by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was the Speaker of the First Lok Sabha of a new born nation. Mavalankar's role was not merely that of a moderator and facilitator of its proceedings, but of a statesman and a founding father invested with the responsibility to establish rules, procedures, conventions and customs that suited the ethos of the land.