Founder Chairman - Dr. Raghubir Sinh
Maharajkumar Dr. Raghubir Sinh was born on 23rd February, 1908 at Laduna Palace of Sitamau in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh.
He was the eldest son of Raja Sir Ram Singh, K.C.I.E., the ruler of the former Sitamau State of Central India.
He received his primary education at home and Middle School education at then known as Shri Ram High School, Sitamau.
He joined the Daly College, Indore in July 1920, but had to leave it owing to illness after a few months. He passed the
Matriculation Examination of Bombay University from the Barod High School in 1924 and the Intermediate Examination in 1926,
both as a private candidate. Then he taught in shree Ram High School, Sitamau for two years.He passed the B.A. Examination
as a teacher candidate in 1928. Thereafter he joined the Holkar College at Indore and took his LL.B. Degree of the Agra University in 1930.
He again joined the staff of Shree Ram High School, Sitamau as an honorary teacher and worked there for another three years.
He passed the M.A. Examination in History of the Agra University in 1933 as a teacher candidate. Then he undertook the D.Litt.
research work on the subject “Malwa in Transition 1698-1766”, under the guidance of the great historian Dr. Sir Jadunath Sarkar
and received the D. Litt degree from the Agra Univerdity in 1936. He was the first D.Litt. of that University.
In his school days he used to bring out a hand written literary magazine “Kiran” in Hindi and English.
It was the budding of his natural talent. His writings in that magazine show that he was developing as
a serious writer of essays and Prose-poems, having his own style of writing expressing suitable emotional
nuances evoked by social and national issues. It also shows that, inspite of his feudal and princely environment,
he had already imbibed liberal, nationalist and democratic ideas, thus laying foundation of his future growth and build-up.
His advanced liberal and democratic views led him to undertake reformist actions in his state.
His father had taken a keen interest in his education and academic development, had great faith
in him and never objected to his progressive views. In his young age he dreamt of a new progressive
Sitamau State leading other princely states of India in constitutional, social and cultural development.
Soon after passing his LL.B. Examinations in 1930, he was appointed as the High Court Judge of the Sitamau State in 1932,
on which post he worked upto August 1940. Along with the judicial work, he was also assigned the responsibility of many
other departments of State government, e.g., Revenue, education, police, health and local self-government in July, 1934
and continued to hold the charge of these departments till December, 1938.
In order to give a concrete shape to his liberal and democratic ideas, Dr. Raghubir Sinh got drafted a new constitution of the state,
which was inaugurated in december 1938. The constitution marked a fundamental change in the governance of the state by associating
the people with the state administration, the constitution provided for the establishment of a state legislature (Rajya Parishad)
having a majority of elected members. This constitution continued to be effective till the integration of the state in June 1948.
The constitution also provided for the state Executive (Shasan Samiti). He worked as the president of the Shasan Samiti from
December 1939 to August 1941 and again from July 1945 to June 1948. He also presided over the State Legislative from May 1939
to August 1941 and again from July 1945 to June 1948. During the period of his administration, he made far-reaching reforms
in Primary Education, health development and rural development activities of the state.
As soon as the Second world war began in 1939, the British Government sought the services of the Princely States of India in several ways,
particularly by providing troops, horses and ammunition. The British Government emphasised the need of associating the youth of the royal
families and those of jagirdars and zamindars. Raja Ram Singh of Sitamau, thereupon, agreed to send his eldest son, the then administering
authority of his state to join the British Army. Dr. Raghubir Sinh joined the O.T.C. at Indore and received full military training for
Indian Observer Corps from 1st Oct. 1940 to 28 Feb. 1941. He was appointed as a captain Indian Observer Corps at Rawalpindi on 1st Aug. 1941.
Thereafter he received permanent posting of emergency commissioned officer at Queta on the north-west frontier on 12th Sept. 1941. Between
24th August 1942 and 10th September 1942 he was at Peshawar for ‘Officer’s Training’. After the completion of training, he was posted at the
Peshawar Cantonment and was sent to ‘Naushera’ where military manoeuvres were being held. In October he was sent to Madras Presidency to observe
its sensitive areas, particularly Soinoor and Calicut. He remained there from 18th Octoner 1942 to 10th February 1943. Thereafter he was sent to
juhu (Bombay) for a three week special training. Soon after this training he was promoted as a Major, then he was again sent to Madras Presidency.
He was first posted at Pallavaram and then afterwards at Waltair where he remained till the end of his military career. He resigned his commission
and retired from the army in April 1945.
Dr. Raghubir sinh had been a keen student of politics and constitutional law from his early days.
He was closely associated with various activities of the Chamber of Princes ever since 1930 and
continued his participation upto its very end. He studied very carefully the problems of Indian
States with particular reference to their relationship with the constitutional development of
India as a whole including the Indian State as well. He wrote a book on this subject: “ Indian States and the New Regime”,
published in 1938, which was used as a text book on the subject in many Indian universities for several years. He could foresee
the coming political changes in India and the imminent withering away of the old political order. Hence he took keen interest in
and worked for the political unification of the States of Malwa region along with others in the adjoining areas during the years
1945-47. He was one of the members of the Central India Region committee appointed in 1946 in order to unite the small states
of Malwa into a collective union. Thus he actively participated in the process of bringing about the formation of the
Gwalior-Indore-Malwa (Madhya Bharat) Sangh in 1948.
Dr. Raghubir Sinh was a gifted writer. As has been earlier, he brought out a hand-written magazine in his school days.
He began contributing light essays, critical reviews, short stories and historical narrations from 1927 onwards,
which were published in leading Hindi magazines. His initial writings were published in Bal-Sakha and Kshatriya.
Later on his thought provoking articles, reviews and stories were published in Saraswati, Sudha, Chand and Madhuri.
As we have seen he worked as a teacher, an administrator a judge, an army officer a constitutional expertn a negotiator
in political affairs and a public worker of repute. However, he was basically an academician, yearning for knowledge,
searching for truth and presenting new ideas and plans before the people. His academic performance is visible in all
his activities he under took. He was a man of emotions and he emerged mainly and wholly as a writer. His natural talents
in writing literary pieces and historical articles. He founded best exposition of his discipleship of the great historian.
Dr. Sir Jadunath Sarkar, his association with other eminent historians like G.S. Sirdesai, Prof. Mohd. Habib, K.R. Qanungo.
G.H. Ozha, Tarachand, Jaichandra Vidyalankar, P. Saran, H.R. Gupta, Prof. Ganda Singh, Ishwari Prasad, A.L. Srivastava and
prof. Satish Chandra etc., and his constant correspondence with great Hindi writers like Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi Nirala,
Sumitranandan Pant, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, acharya Ramchandra Shukla, Mahadevi Verma etc. had a greatly moulded his ideas and writings.
His one articlc about French Revolution
Published in the
of Chand magazine published in November 1928, reflected his nationalist
and revolutionary outlook. The noted Hindi Novelist Acharya Chatursen Shastri, who was the editor of that special issue, wrote about
Maharajkumar Dr. Raghubir Sinh
That issue of Chand was proscribed by the Government. Whereas several prominent writers got
their articles published by pseudonym. However young prince of Sitamau State showed great courage to publish his article in his own name.
The publication of Maharajkumar’s article greatly disturbed the British Government authorities and political officers and they made enquiries
about the young Prince from the State Government. Thereafter, the British Government remained very suspicious about his views and attitudes.
Dr. Raghubir Sinh always aspired to meet and correspond with the patriotic and revolutionary political leaders of India. The wellknown revolutionary leader,
Thakur Kesari Singh Barhat of Shahpura was in correspondence with him. The Thakur highly appreciated the new constitution of Sitamau State in one of his letters.
Maharajkumar attended in 1935 the Indore session of Hindi Sahitya Sammelan and came in touch with Mahatma Gandhi. He was in continuous correspondence with
Jaichandra Vidyalankar, the known revolutionary and noted historian of India since 1932. He was closely associated with Jaichandraji in the formation and
working of Bharatiya Itihas Parishad, founded in December, 1937 at Varanasi. During these years he also came in close touch with Dr. Rajendra Prasad and
Kanhaiyalal Maniklal Munshi, at Bharatiya Vidyabhavan Bombay.
His first book was published in 1932. It was “Purva Madhya-Kalin Bharat”, which at once got great appreciation in academic and literary circles and was prescribed
as a text-book for Intermediate and B.A. Classes. It was followed by another literary book “Bikhare Phool”, published in 1933.
Malwa in Transition was published in 1938 and its revised Hindi edition “Malwa men Yugantar” was published next year. His another work of political and historical value.
“Indian States and the New Regime” was also published in 1938. These books were highly acclaimed as a great contribution to historical learning and established him as
a leading researcher and historian. “Sapta Deep” another book of literary essays in Hindi was also published in the same year. Thus by 1938, Dr. Raghubir Sinh had
already emerged as rising star on Indian literary and historical horizon. He was well versed in writing prose-poems and his book, which brought him great reputation
and name, was “Shesh-Smritiyan” published in 1939. His prose-poetic writings included in this book were unique for expressions of deep emotions and poetic beauty
that touched the heart of every reader. The great Hindi litterateur of the period Pandit Ram Chandra Shukla himself contributed a detailed critical introduction
to this book. The book was prescribed as a prose-text for the M.A. Examination in many universities. It was translated in Gujarati under the title “Shesh Sambharana”,
by Ramnik Meghani.
In 1945, Dr. Raghubir Sinh was awarded “Mangla Prasad Prize” for the year 2003 A.V. by the All India Hindi Sahitya Sammelan of Allahabad
for his contribution to Hindi literature on his book “Malwa men Yugantar”
He was associated with Indian Historical Records Commission as a corresponding member by the Government of India for the period 1937 to 1942.
He read many important papers at its different sessions. After independence the Government of India nominated him again as a corresponding
member of the commission (1952-72) Since 1972 he had been a permanent government nominee on it.
He was entrusted with the great task of editing Poona Residency Correspondence Series (Vol. IX, X and Extra Volume) during this period,
which were published in 1940, 1943 and 1951.
Dr. Raghubir Sinh was fond of collecting books concerning Hindi and English literature and history. By 1936, he had a large collection
of books in his palace at Sitamau. Dr. Sir Jadunath Sarkar inspired him to established a research library of history and literature.
Thus “Raghubir Library” came into existence in 1936. He arranged the books in a seperate building. The library gradually devloped as
a very big and valuable collection of rare printed books, photoprints and transcripts of micro-film copies of unique and historical
manu- scripts in Persian Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi languages, particularly relating to Indian history from 13th century
A.D. to early 19th century, Sir Jadunath Sarkar described it as an important and most valuable collection not only in Malwa and Rajasthan
but in whole of India. Lately several original collections of old manuscripts and documents have been received from individuals and former
Jagirdars. Since 1946 onwards researchers working for Ph.D. or D.Litt. have been coming from various universities and other institutions
to utilize the books, manuscripts and records of the library and receive guidance from Dr. Raghubir Sinh for their work.
After the merger of Sitamau State in the Madhya Pradesh Union in 1948, Dr. Raghubir Sinh’s duties as an administrator came to an end. However,
considering his efforts towards the merger of the states in the Indian Union and formation of the Madhya Pradesh union his experience in the legal,
constitutional and administrative functions, his reputation as a litterateur and historian and his popularity in the people of Madhya Pradesh,
Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehuru got him nominated as the member of the Rajya Sabha on 13th May, 1952 which he remained up to 1962.
Thus a new responsibility was developed on him. He used all his knowledge and experience to fulfil this responsibility. He took great
interest particularly in Education. Defence, Communications and cultural affairs.
As an eminent historian Dr. Raghubir Sinh showed keen interest in the writing of the hisotry of freedom struggle in India and rewriting of
Indian History factually with a clear Indian perspective. He particularly took great pains in raising the problem of protection and preservation
of old cultural and archaeological wealth of the country. He, time and again, emphasised the need of giving full attention to preserve old monuments,
temples, buildings and other works of art, which were getting ruined day by day. He made suggestions for proper amendments in the Act and for preparing
a complete national list of all available monuments and works of Art of historical and archaeological importance in the country. Participating in
the debate in this regard he informed the House that many of the monuments mentioned by Col. James Tod in his book “Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan”
and “Travels in Western India” are not visible now as the authorities have been indifferent towards their value and they have been destroyed.
He mentioned the case of monuments of Chandravati, near Abu, how they have been carelessly destroyed in order to lay a railway line.
He asked the government to take immediate and concrete steps to save such monuments of international importance as Khajuraho.
Mandu,Sanchi, Vidisha, Hinglajgarh etc.
Dr. Raghubir Sinh was appointed as a parliamentary adviser to the Indian delegation to participate in the 11th session of the United Nations Ganeral Assemby
in November, 1956 and represented India on the 4th and 5th committees. Prominent member of the delegation were V.K. Krishna Menon, G.S. Pathak, Arthur S.Lal.
He actively participated in the discussions of the delegation. On the request of the Teachers College, Columbia University Department of History, he visited
the college on 4th December, 1956 and delivered a lecture there on political and social conditions of India gave satisfactory replies to the questions
raised by the audience.
As has been mentioned above, Maharajkumar Dr. Raghubir Sinh had emerged as a literary writer and historian in the thirties and got great prominence in the forties.
After independence he got more time to devote himself much more to his literary and historical research work. His two literary work in Hindi Jeevan Dhuli and
Jeevan Kan were published in 1949 and 1950 respectively.
His two historical works of great value Ratlam ka Pratham Rajya and Poorva Adhunik Rajasthan were published in 1951. The first containing history
of Rathor princely families of Malwa during 17th century based on new research and the second containing a brief but detailed survey of historical
events and changes in Rajasthan during 1527-1949. It was a first attempt to wirte a general history of Rajasthan, not state and ruler-wise,
but in a combined and period-wise system. It received high appreciation from academic circles with the hope that the attempts would be made
to adopt this method in writing future histories. He translated J.N. Sarkar’s famous book “A short History of Aurangzed” into Hindi and got
it published for Hindi readers. In 1949, he prepared a list of important historical manuscripts preserved in the Raghubir Library, Sitamau
and got it published for the information of historical researchers throughout the country and abroad to enable them to make use of the
preserved research material in the Library for their projects.
Since Fifties Maharajkumar began devoting mainly to historical research work and gradually ceased writing literary essays in hindi. However, he continued enriching
Hindi language by writing his historical articles and books mainly in Hindi language in his own lucid and attractive literary style. His style gave a new dimension
to historical writing, which remained no more a dry and uninteresting reading but became attractive and absorbing for the readers.
He contributed research articles to various historical journals of the country bringing out new facts and information and presenting new analysis
and interpretation of the historical events. His every article used to become a source of discussion in academic circles and the letter always
aspired to read his next writing. In 1973 his short book on “Maharana Pratap” was published and a book on “Durgadas Rathor” in 1975 both in his inimitable style.
In 1979 his book on Rajasthan historiography “Rajasthan ke Pramukh Itihaskar aur Unka Krititva” was published. He rewrote the biography of Rana Pratap,
analysing the Rana’s character and role in a new light. This book “Maharana Pratap : Jeevani, Mahatva aur Den” was published in 1983. In 1984 he got
published in English “The Julusi Sanehas of the Mugal Emperors of India (1556-1857 A.D.)” His edited books on Shivaji and Aurangzeb in Hindi were
published in 1985. His edited work on the records of Malwa concerning the Great Indian rebellion of 1857-1858 - “Malwa ke Mahan Vidroh Kalin Abhilekh”
was published in 1986.
As described earlier, he edited English records of Maratha History in 3 volumes with the title “poona Residency correspondence”,
which were published in 1940, 1943 and 1951 respectively.
Dr. J.N. Sarkar and Dr. Raghubir Sinh Jointly edited the work “Shivaji’s visit to Aurangzeb at Agra” based on Rajasthani records,
which was published in 1963 Dr. Raghubir Sinh in joint co-operation with Dr. Satish Chandra and Dr. G.D. Sharma edited “Jodhpur
Hukumat ri Bahi” and published the work in 1972 with the title “Marwar under Jaswant Singh (1658-1678)”. His edited work “Fort
william India House correspondence (1786-88)” was published in 1973. He revised and edited Sir Jadhunath Sarkar’s book “A History of Jaipur”,
which was published in 1984. He aslso edited Hindi records in the Peshwa Daftar and got the work entitled “Selections from the Peshwa daftar”
published in 1979 and his another work concerning sources of Maratha history “Maratha Rajya Sambandhi Abhilekh” was published in 1982.
His other edited important works include “Vachanika Rathor Ratan Singhji Ri” (p. 1960), Kavi Kalanidhi Shri Krishna Bhatta Virachit-Sambhar Yudha (p. 1969), Shah Jahan Nama Munshi Devi Prasad Krit (P. 1975), Ajit Granth (p. 1978,) Shyamaldas Krit Veer Vinod (p. 1986), ShriDhar Krit Jangnama (p. 1986), Jodhpur Rajya ki Khyat (p. 1988).
Maharajkumar Dr. Raghubir Sinh’s valuable contribution to Hindi language and literature and to historical research and learning received due
recognition from vatious institutions and organisations and he was duly honoured by them. As mentioned earlier, he was awarded Mangla Prasad
Puraskar in 1945, by Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Allahabad. In February 1954, he was given prize by the U.P. Government of his book “Poorva Adhunik Rajasthan”.
In December, 1975, Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Allahabad honoured him by conferring him the honorary degree, “Sahitya Vachaspati”. In 1978, U.P. Hindi Samsthan,
Lucknow specialy honoured him and presented special prize of Rs. 15,000/- for his life-long services to Hindi language and literature.
Dr. Raghubir Sinh presided over the Gwalior session of Madhya Pradesh Hindi Sahitya Sammelan in April, 1976.
Dr. Raghubir Sinh presided over Local History Section and Mughal Hisotry section of Indian History congress at Gwalior in December,
1952 and at Waltair in December, 1953 respectively. He presided over Annual Session of Madhya Pradesh Itihas Parishad held at
Jabalpur in December, 1974. He presided over the Chaupasani (Jodhpur) session of Rajasthan History Congress in March, 1979.
Dr. Raghubir Sinh’s valuble honorary services and assistance were acquired by government bodies and other institutions from time to time.
He worked as Chairman, Madhya Bharat Regional Records Survey Committee between 1953 and 1956 and then continued working in that capacity
since 1968. He worked as a member of the Madhya Pradesh State Advisory Board for the revision of the District Gazetteers since 1958.
He had been Trustee of the All India Kashiraj Trust, Fort Ramnagar, district Varanasi since 1957. He was Fellow of the Royal Asiatic
Society London for life. He was life member of the following bodies - the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, the Asiatic Society,
Bombay, the Calcutta Historical Society, Calcutta, P.E.N. India, Bombay, Nagari Pracharani Sabha, Varanasi and Indian History Congress.
He remained member of Madhya Pradesh Itihas Parishad, Bhopal and Rajasthan History Congress, Jaipur.
The greatest achievement of Dr. Raghubir Sinh’s life was founding of the research institute - “Shri Natnagar Shodh Samsthan, Sitamau by him on 14th August 1974.
Since its foundation the Samsthan has conducted and completed several valuable research projects under his supervision and a
few of them have been published which are very useful for the researchers. His greater emphasis had been to provide more and
more source material to the researchers by editing and publishing the original material available in the Samsthan’s Library.
Maharajkumar always abhored luxurious and easygoing life. Despite being a prince, he kept away from all ostentations of the royal life.
He disliked ostension and pretension. He liked to lead a simple life from his early years. As he came into contact with the great persons
in political and literary field, he developed modern ideas of nationalism, patriotism and revolution and feelings of renunciation and sacrifice.
During his early age itself he made up his mind to work for the awakening and upliftment of his country. Consequently he devoted his entire life
towards attaining that object working in political field but mainly through literary and historical writings. When his father Raja Sir Ram Singh
died in 1967 he voluntarily stepped aside in favour of his elder son Raja Krishna Sinh Rathore. By nature he was very hard-working and never wasted
time in useless chores. He had a charming, unassuming and pleasing personality. Till the end he led almost a saintly life living in a simple
room with very few necessities. He wore simple Khadi clothes and ate simple food. Indeed he was a saintly prince. In the academic circles of
the country he was known as the Princely Historian.
Maharajkumar Dr. Raghubir Sinh breathed his last on Feb. 13, 1991
Former chairman, Shri K.S. Rathore
Maharaja KrishnaSinhji Rathore was born on November 18, 1934. He was the elder son of Maharajkumar Dr Raghubir Sinh and his mother’s name was Mohankumari.
KrishnaSinhji Rathore’s primary to high school education was completed at Sitamau. He passed the High School Exam from Shriram School,
Sitamau in 1949 under the Education Board, Ajmer and the Intermediate Exam from Daly College, Indore in 1951 under the MP Education Board,
Bhopal. He passed his BA from st. Johns College, Agra in 1953 under the Agra University and also his MA (History) from same college in 1955.
He did his LL B from Delhi University, Delhi in 1958 and Certificate of Proficiency in Law from same University in 1959. He was selected to
the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1959 itself and joined duties on October 30, 1959.
He remained in Abu from October 1959 to October 1960 for training as Assistant Superintendent of Police and from November 1960 to November 1961 he trained in Rewa.
After getting these trainings, he was posted at Assistant Commandant with the First Battalion of SAF at Indore. He remained on this post till June 1961. After this
he was posted at Sub-division Officer Police (SDOP) of Alirajpur from June 1962 to June 1963 and as Deputy Commandant of CSWT, Indore from June 1963 to June 1964.
He remained in charge as Commandant of First Battalion of SAF Indore from June 1964 to January 1965.
From January to June, 1965, he undertook an advanced course at National Police Academy, Abu and then was posted
as Superintendent of Police in Shivpuri in July 1965. He remained on this post till April 1967. From July 1967
to October 1968, he was posted as deputy director with IB, New Delhi. He was transferred as Deputy Director (Adjutant)
at National Police Academy, Abu, where he remained from October 1968 to January, 1973. From June 1973 to January 1974,
he was the commandant of SAF (15th Battalion). He was then posted as Commandant of Basic Training Centre, Boster Security Force Academy,
Tekanpur, where he remained till March 1977.
From March 1977 to December 1977, he was posted as Deputy Inspector General with BSF, Agartala (Tripura).
From there he was transferred as DIG Commandant Signal Training School, BSF Headquarters, New Delhi and
remained posted from January to April 1978. From May 1978 to December 1978, he was posted as Deputy Commandant (DIG),
BSF Academy, Tekanpur. From October 1979 to April 1983, he was posted as General Manager of Tear Smoke Unit at Tekanpur.
In this duration, he also remained in charge as Director (Officiating) of BSF, Academy, Tekanpur from January to April 1982.
From May 1983 to January, 1986, he was posted as Deputy Inspector General with Armed Police Training College (APTC), Indore.
After this, from January 1986 to October 1988, he was posted as Inspector General with BSF, Jodhpur. While on this post,
he was in charge of the area of Gujarat and Rajasthan states, bostering Pakistan.
From here, he was transferred to APTC, Indore where he stayed form 1988 to April 1991. From April 1991 to 1992,
he was Additional Director Lokayukta (SPE) and from January to May 1992, he was Additional Director General
(Training) at Police Headquarters, Bhopal. On May 10, 1992, he was appointed as the Director General of
Police of Madhya Pradesh and retired from the same post on November 30, 1992.
ACHIEVEMENTS, COURSES AND TRAININGS OF SHRI KRISHNA SINH RATHORE
Going by the ideologies that were in his blood, Maharaja Krishna Sinh Rathore
dedicated himself to education and even while in Indian Police Service, he took up several courses and trainings unrelated to his work.
He got IPS Training at CPTC, Abu in 1959-60 and Smoke Gas course from MPPC, Sagar in 1961. In 1962,
he completed Platoon Science Course from Infantry School, Mhow and a training course in Training Science
from Sainik Shikshan Kendra, Pachmarhi. In 1965 he did an advanced course from NPA, Abu and in 1967,
a basic intelligence course from IB Training Centre, New Delhi. In 1978, he did a Research Methodology
course from ICFS, New Delhi, in 1980 a management (public undertaking) course from IIPA, New Delhi and in 1987,
a `high inter-personnel relation’ training from NPA, Hyderabad. He undertook training of Indian Institute of
Public Administration from ASCI, Hyderabad. He did a training on use of technology from DCPC, New Delhi.
Shri KS Rathore’s activities did not remain confined to his posts, but going by the tradition of his dynasty,
he made several achievements. He was a multi-talented personality and had a long list of achievements. They are as follows:
Shri KrishnaSinhji Rathore set up a Central School on Arms in 1963. Terror of dacoits reigned in areas around Shivpuri.
Shri Rathore very competently controlled the dacoity activities from 1965 to 1967 in the area.
Even while serving in police department, he was constantly connected to social activities. During his stay in Abu from 1968 to 1973,
he made great contributions as chief organizer of salute parade, cultural programmes, Red Cross festival, Abu festival and others.
During his tenure, welfare, construction work, housing, new battalion ranging and other activities were at peak.
He was the chief patron of Rajasthan Basketball Association from 1986 to 1989.
He was the chairman of the Indore branch of the Youth Hostels Association of India from 1998 to 1991.
He was life member of World Wildlife Fund
He was life member of Indian Institute of Public Administration
He took special interest in the internationally acclaimed desert festival of
Jodhpur and Jaisalmer and encouraged it by participating in it with famous tattoo show and BOP Orchestra of the Boster Security Force.
In this duration he constituted the world famous `Camel Mounted Brass Band’ of BSF that found place in Guiness Book of World Recost.