Ramnandan Mishra was born in Darbhanga in 1905. He was a member of Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee from 1927–1934.^[1] He participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement and was imprisoned between 1930–31.^[1] He was a founding member of the Congress Socialist Party from 1934–47 and then the Socialist Party from 1947–52.^[1] He was arrested for anti-war propaganda in 1940.^[1] He participated in the Quit India Movement and organized secret revolutionary centres and while visiting Madras, was arrested in Cuttack on 23 August 1942.^[1] He was lodged in Cuttack jail, then in Behrampur jail.^[1] When he tried to escape, he was transferred to Hazaribagh Central Jail in the last week of October, 1942.^[1] He escaped from Hazaribagh Central Jail along with Yogendra Shukla, Jayaprakash Narayan and others during November, 1942.^[1]

He was in charge of the revolutionary movement in Punjab where he was rearrested on 22 February 1943 and released only in 1946.^[1] He was General Secretary of the Hind Kisan Panchayat, Bihar from 1949–52^[1] and became a member of the National Executive of the Socialist Party in 1949.^[1]

He left politics for spiritual pursuits in 1952 and became a devotee of Lord Jagannath.^[1] He died on 27 August 1989.^[1]