The Life and Times of Raja Mahendra Pratap

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Raja Mahendra Pratap was born (1886) in the Hindu family Mursan and was married (1902) to a Sikh family of Jind. He got his education under British Headmasters and Muslim teachers all from Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College Aligarh founded by Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan. With this background he shaped into a true representative of secular society and got fully equipped to break the fetters of conversativism. To bring India at par with European Countries, Raja Mahendra Pratap established a free indigenous technical institute, 'Prem Mahavidyalya' in his palace at Vrindavan on May 24, 1909. He was a patriot who turned Swadeshi, and tried sincerely to liberate his mother land.

On 20th of December, 1914, at the age of 28 Raja Mahendra Pratap left India for European countries to liberate India from the clutches of the British colonial rule with outside support. He had become a big menace there for the foreign rule in India. The British Government of India declared a reward on his head, attached his entire estate and declared him a fugitive. Raja Mahendra Pratap tried his best to utilize the world war situations to free India. On 1st of December, 1915, he established the first Provisional Government of India at Kabul in Afghanistan during First World War and formed the Executive Board of India in Japan in 1940 during Second World War.

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Dr. Vir Singh after superannuation from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University in 2000, is presently an Honorary Director of Maharaja Surajmal Centre for Research and Publication, New Delhi. He has been actively engaged in the administrative, educational and research activities of the Society since 1976 as Joint Secretary of the Executive Committee and Secretary Academic Committee.

Dr. Vir Singh used his intensive study of the primary sources on the Jats to update three prominent works and edited nine other books on the Jat History. He also organised four National Seminars on the Role and Contribution of the Jats to the Socio-Economic Life and Polity of North and North-West India.