Chronology

Born at village Naugavan, mauza Begupur, Tehsil Behat, District Saharanpur. Father Chaudhary Shriram, mother Shrimati Karmvati.

The booklet gives 1897 here — a discrepancy of three years.

Passed class four at the District Board primary school, where his uncle Chaudhary Shivraj had enrolled him.

Passed the middle English examination at Muzaffarnagar after the junior and senior special classes. High school scholarship of six rupees a month, with a further six rupees sanctioned by the Mahasabha.

Passed the high school examination — by the booklet's account the only Gujar student to do so that year. Gave up the idea of Thomson Engineering College, Roorkee and entered Meerut College.

The Mahasabha established a Gujar school at Saharanpur, opposite the DIOS office, under Pradhan Maharaj Singh's supervision. Recognition was left in doubt after the English inspector's report on the inspection.

Took charge as headmaster of the Saharanpur Gujar school immediately after his BA examination, appointed by the managing committee. Six teachers; only two Gujar students.

Death of Pradhan Maharaj Singh, at the age of thirty-seven.

Mahasabha meeting at Jainbagh, Rampur Maniharan; election of the managing committee. The same meeting decided that a primary school be opened at Rampur Maniharan by way of experiment.

The school opened in a rented house at Rampur Maniharan; the Saharanpur school was formally transferred there. The hostel was also rented.

Death of his first wife. The booklet gives the year but not her name.

Personal record, included at the reader's option.

The Sabha's funds ran out; he travelled the countryside raising subscriptions with Chaudhary Jaimal Singh. An old woman of Chakwali village pawned her utensils to give a donation.

Left for Banaras to take the LT, handing charge as head teacher to Lala Dulichand.

The institution collapsed. Hostel cots, library books and furniture were stored at Chaudhary Jaimal Singh's house. He remarried the same year, to Shrimati Malkhani Devi of Babupur Nagli.

Teacher of geography at DAV High School, Muzaffarnagar. His student Jai Krishna Gopal passed with distinction and later became Vice-Chancellor of Roorkee University.

Resigned from the DAV at Chaudhary Sher Singh's urging, to become headmaster of the Jat school.

Sat the private MA examination in geography at Aligarh Muslim University — then the only place in India offering it. On the way back he donated a hundred rupees to the university library; his salary was seventy-five rupees a month.

Passed the MA.

The Jat School, Muzaffarnagar was raised to high school within four years. The same year he was appointed treasurer of the Gujar Mahasabha at its Ghaziabad session, a post he held until 1955.

Resolved to form a registered society, after repeated urging by students of the Jat High School — Mohkam Singh of Tikaula, Dheeraj Singh of Narsan and others.

Gujar Vidya Pracharini Sabha, Muzaffarnagar – Saharanpur Circle founded. Fifteen people attended the meeting at his residence in Nai Mandi; the rules he had drafted in advance were passed as written. Registered within the month under the Societies Registration Act No. 21 of 1860.

Recorded in both sources.

The Gujar hostel opened in a rented house at Nai Mandi, Muzaffarnagar — the decision of the meeting that passed resolution no. 5.

Managing committee meeting, resolution no. 9 — to call a meeting at Chaudhary Asha Ram's chaupal at Rampur Maniharan.

That meeting held at three in the afternoon, attended by leading men from Ambala, Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar districts. Land obtained through Chaudhary Deep Singh of Laksar's influence and Chaudhary Bharat Singh's generosity.

Shrimati Pirani Devi and Chaudhary Bharat Singh went to Deoband and registered 159 bighas 15 biswas in the Sabha's name.

Jaundkheda, in the course of the subscription deputation; a yajna at the Arya Samaj temple at Rampur that evening.

Gujar Anglo Vedic School, Rampur Maniharan opened. Twelve names came forward for admission; three teachers — Shri Radheshyam Gupta, Shri Duli Chand and Shri Horam Singh — were appointed temporarily the same day.

Recorded in both sources.

Released from the Jat High School, Muzaffarnagar, his resignation having first been refused. On leaving he paid 500 rupees for life membership of its general body.

Reached Rampur to find enthusiasm fallen away; began a hunger strike at Chaudhary Asha Ram's house. Two days later people gathered and the subscription work resumed.

Managing committee resolved to begin construction. His former student Shri Jai Prakash Goyal, an engineer, was called from Thomson College Roorkee for the plan; cost was assessed at three thousand rupees a classroom and one thousand for a hostel room.

Appointed permanent headmaster of the Gujar Anglo Vedic School.

Resolved that in every village of the two districts something be collected from both sides at weddings. Classes three to eight started and recognition obtained; 162 students that year.

Seven mud rooms were built and thatched on Shrimati Pirani Devi's donated land, and the school moved there from the Arya Samaj building.

Permission to open class nine.

First high school batch — a hundred per cent result.

Sanction for class eleven in arts and agriculture.

First intermediate batch. Recognition for science obtained the same year and class eleven in science started.

Chaudhary Dharm Singh of Pahansu appointed president in place of the founding president Chaudhary Jawan Singh of Binda.

First science batch passed.

The college's E-shaped building completed.

Application to Agra University for affiliation. On learning the Vice-Chancellor was coming to Nainital, he went to meet him there with the then president Chaudhary Jawan Singh.

The Vice-Chancellor granted permission to open degree classes in agriculture.

The year he was due to retire under the rules. The managing committee asked for a three-year extension; the government granted two.

Relieved of the principalship. Asked about a successor, he proposed Babu Sangram Singh. He continued teaching religion and culture at the degree college after retiring.

Donations to Rampur College and Jhabreda College — 1,100 rupees — in memory of his late wife, Shrimati Malkhani Devi.

Died.

His statue unveiled in the college grounds by Swami Kalyan Dev, chaired by Chaudhary Narayan Singh, former Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.