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
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
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Early life

He was born in the village of Lakhau, 15 km east of Churu
Churu
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, Pilani
Pilani
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 Assembly
    A 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 PCC
    Pradesh Congress Committee
    The 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, AICC
    AICC
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  • 1971 - Elected M.L.A.
    Member of the Legislative Assembly
    A 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, Churu
    Churu
    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...

     Central Co-operative Bank
  • Elected Chairman, Churu
    Churu
    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...

     Central Co-operative Bank
  • Elected Director, Rajasthan
    Rajasthan
    Rājasthān 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, Churu
    Churu
    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...

  • Elected Director, URMUL, Bikaner
  • Elected President, Sarvhitkarini Sabha, Churu
  • Founded Balika MahaVidyalaya, Churu
    Churu
    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...

     as Founder Chairman (A Girls PG College)
  • 1984 - Elected to Lok Sabha
    Lok Sabha
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     from Churu
    Churu
    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...

     for the Congress Party
    Indian National Congress
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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

Veli
Veli
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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.
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