Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh: A Nationalist and Reformer

On 14^th September 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh (UP).

About Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh

Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh was born into the ruling Jat family of Mursan estate in Hathras in 1886.
Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh was a freedom fighter, revolutionary, writer, social reformer, and internationalist.
Raja gave up his own residence in Mathura to be converted into a technical school named Prem Mahavidyalaya in 1909.
On December 1, 1915, he proclaimed the first Provisional Government of India outside India at the historic Bagh-e-Babur in Kabul. He declared himself president, and his fiery fellow revolutionary Maulana Barkatullah of Bhopal, prime minister, of the Provisional Government.
Mahendra Pratap Singh, who was an alumnus of the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College, which later became the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), had given 3.04 acres of land to the university on lease for constructing a school in 1929.
In 1929, Mahendra Pratap launched the ‘World Federation’ in Berlin.
He was nominated for the 1932 Nobel Peace Prize by the Swedish doctor N A Nilsson, who was a member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.
After almost 32 years of exile, Mahendra Pratap Singh finally returned to India in 1946.
He entered Lok Sabha as an Independent candidate from Mathura in 1957.