Mohar Singh Rathore
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Mohar Singh Rathore was a social reformer & political Congress worker. He was a follower of Arya Samaji and Acharya Vinoba Bhave's Bhoodan movement
(land donation movement). He advocated for social reforms such as discouraging purdah, dowry, child marriage & Untouchability. He died a sitting Member of the Parliament of India
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(चूरु) in a Rajput family. His father Thakur Moti Singh Rathore died while Mohar was at university. His mother was Bhur Kanwar.
, then the following year he was sent with his elder brother to Walter Noble High School, Bikaner until 1942. He passed the High School Examination with First Division. He passed Inter Science with First Division from Birla Engineering Collage, Pilani. He passed BA (Hons) as a non-collegiate student and then L.L.B. from Jaipur.
: An epic poetry written in Dingal
dialect and Nagri script by writer—Mukun Singh.
Bhoodan movement
The Bhoodan Movement or Land Gift Movement was a voluntary land reform movement in India started by Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1951 started at Pochampally village now known as Bhoodhan Pochampally.-Method:...
(land donation movement). He advocated for social reforms such as discouraging purdah, dowry, child marriage & Untouchability. He died a sitting Member of the Parliament of India
Parliament of India
The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body in India. Founded in 1919, the Parliament alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all political bodies in India. The Parliament of India comprises the President and the two Houses, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha...
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Early life
He was born in the village of Lakhau, 15 km east of ChuruChuru
Churu is a town in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Churu District. It lies in the Thar Desert on the National Highway-65 connecting Pali to Ambala and is a junction station on the railway line to Bikaner...
(चूरु) in a Rajput family. His father Thakur Moti Singh Rathore died while Mohar was at university. His mother was Bhur Kanwar.
Education
He was taught by his grandfather Thakur Mohabat Singh Ji and his mother, then by Seduram Ji from 1929 to 1933. From 1933-1935 he went Alsisar, 25 km away, at J K High School. In 1935 he joined Birla High School, PilaniPilani
Pilani is a small town situated in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan. It is in the Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan, India. It notable for being the home of a large number of education institutes for its size.-Etymology:...
, then the following year he was sent with his elder brother to Walter Noble High School, Bikaner until 1942. He passed the High School Examination with First Division. He passed Inter Science with First Division from Birla Engineering Collage, Pilani. He passed BA (Hons) as a non-collegiate student and then L.L.B. from Jaipur.
Positions held
- 1956 - Enrolled Advocate, Rajasthan High Court
- 1962 - Elected M.L.A.Member of the Legislative AssemblyA Member of the Legislative Assembly or a Member of the Legislature , is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to the legislature or legislative assembly of a sub-national jurisdiction....
Rajasthan from Churu - 1965 - Elected Member, Rajasthan PCCPradesh Congress CommitteeThe elected committee that directs the Congress Party in an Indian state is known as a PCC, or Pradesh Congress Committee. It is elected by card-holding members of the Congress, the world's largest political organisation, and in turn elects State Congress Presidents and delegates to the All India...
- 1970 - Elected Member, AICCAICCAICC of AICc may refer to:* Adiabatic Isochoric Complete Combustion, meaning a chemical reaction which proceeds to completion with no heat transfer, in a constant-volume region...
- 1971 - Elected M.L.A.Member of the Legislative AssemblyA Member of the Legislative Assembly or a Member of the Legislature , is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to the legislature or legislative assembly of a sub-national jurisdiction....
Rajasthan from Churu - 1972 - Elected Vice President, DCC Churu
- Elected Director, ChuruChuruChuru is a town in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Churu District. It lies in the Thar Desert on the National Highway-65 connecting Pali to Ambala and is a junction station on the railway line to Bikaner...
Central Co-operative Bank - Elected Chairman, ChuruChuruChuru is a town in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Churu District. It lies in the Thar Desert on the National Highway-65 connecting Pali to Ambala and is a junction station on the railway line to Bikaner...
Central Co-operative Bank - Elected Director, RajasthanRajasthanRājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
Apex Bank, Jaipur - Elected Chairman, Wholesale Upbhokta Bhandar, ChuruChuruChuru is a town in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Churu District. It lies in the Thar Desert on the National Highway-65 connecting Pali to Ambala and is a junction station on the railway line to Bikaner...
- Elected Director, URMUL, Bikaner
- Elected President, Sarvhitkarini Sabha, Churu
- Founded Balika MahaVidyalaya, ChuruChuruChuru is a town in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Churu District. It lies in the Thar Desert on the National Highway-65 connecting Pali to Ambala and is a junction station on the railway line to Bikaner...
as Founder Chairman (A Girls PG College) - 1984 - Elected to Lok SabhaLok SabhaThe Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...
from ChuruChuruChuru is a town in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Churu District. It lies in the Thar Desert on the National Highway-65 connecting Pali to Ambala and is a junction station on the railway line to Bikaner...
for the Congress PartyIndian National CongressThe Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
Personal life
He was married to Smt. Pan Kanwar Bhati from Randhawa village, Sirsa, Haryana and had five sons and two daughters. He had eight brothers and two sisters. His eldest son Jai Singh Rathore is General Secretary of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee, since 1999.In popular culture
VeliVeli
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: An epic poetry written in Dingal
Dingal
Dingal is an ancient Indian language written in Nagri script and having literature in prose as well as poetry.This language was being spoken and used for writing in present Rajasthan, Gujarat and Sindh of Pakistan...
dialect and Nagri script by writer—Mukun Singh.