Background
His father Lal Pratap Singh, was a freedom fighter who killed was in 1857 in the Battle of Chanda.
His father Lal Pratap Singh, was a freedom fighter who killed was in 1857 in the Battle of Chanda.
Rampal Singh was a Congress sympathizer. In consequence, Mahatma Gandhi and other congress leader used to visit him quit frequently. Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya had very intimate relations with Raja of Kalakankar. paper Hindusthan, with nationalist outlook from Kalakankar.
The Raja Saheb of Kalakankar had started a Hindi weekly, Hindusthan, in 1883 to spread the message of freedom.
The Hindosthan was started by Raja Rampal Singh of Kalakankar, situated on the banks of the Ganga, about 15 miles from Allahabad, is a very picturesque place Of the population of 1000 or so, the educated ones could, in effect, be counted on one"s finger tips. The Ganga surrounds Kalakankar on three sides.
All around is dense forest. All the houses in Kalakankar, except Raja Rampal Singh"s own palace or the so-called "fort", were made of mud and their roofs of burnt clay tiles.
The only son of his father, Rampal Singh was ambitious.
He learnt Hindi, English and Sanskrit, and became an honorary magistrate at the age of eighteen. After two years she died and he came back to India with an English wife. He again returned to Britain In August 1883, he started the monthly Hindosthan from the United Kingdom. This was in English and Hindi.
Its Urdu edition was also brought out for some time.
Later, it became a weekly. The articles in Hindi and Urdu were the Raja"s own, those in English of Mr.
George Temple"son He returned to Kalakankar in 1885, and started the country"s first Hindi daily newspaper Hindosthan.
Malviya joined work on two conditions: Raja would never meet him in an inebriated state and would not influence the newspaper’s editorial policy. In 1905, Sir Chhotu Ram worked as the assistant Private Secretary to Raja Rampal Singh.
Even though, from the point of view of communications, this place was hardly suitable for publishing a newspaper, the Raja was fond of it and had it connected telegraphically.
He was one of the founding member of Indian National Congress Party.