Raja Mahendra Pratap was born (1886) in the Hindu family of 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