Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh

Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh (1 December 1886 – 29 April 1979) was an Indian independence activist, politician, social reformer, and educationist. He was the president of the provisional government of India, established in Kabul in 1915, with the support of Indian nationalists and revolutionaries during World War I. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1932.

Born into the ruling family of Mursan in the Hathras district of the North-Western Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), Singh was educated at Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, which later became Aligarh Muslim University. Singh participated in various nationalist and reform movements and spent several years in self-imposed exile engaged in political activities abroad. Singh also formed the executive board of India in Tokyo, Japan in 1940 during World War II. After India's independence, Singh served as a Member of Parliament representing Mathura in the Lok Sabha from 1957 to 1962. Singh established a number of educational institutions, including Prem Maha Vidyalaya in Vrindavan in 1909. He was popularly known as "Aryan Peshwa".

His legacy was commemorated by the government of India by on 1979 postage stamp of India. In Uttar Pradesh, the Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University was founded in his honour in 2021. Provided by Wikipedia