Career
Degree from American Christian College at Allahabad in 1916 and then an Bachelor of Laws degree from Agra University in 1929. Even during his collegiate years, he was politically active and defected against authority to assist revolutionary students prior to the first Indian National Congress (Incorporated) movement in 1921. He took part in a number of mutinous activities and was imprisoned in all major Incorporated insurrections.
Malkhan Singh"s devotion to community service and the freedom struggle earned him the reverence of other revolutionaries, establishing his reputation as a very prominent Congressman and mobilizing a significant youth support base.
After the Indian Independence in 1947, he was elected President of the Aligarh District Congress Committee (DCC). On 16 February 1955, Malkhan Singh declared in Lucknow that he had rejoined the Incorporated after the party agreed to pursue a socialistic pattern of society.
He was elected President of the Aligarh DCC unanimously. Later, in 1957 he went on to be a minister sharing titles for sports and industries.
Outside politics Thakur Malkhan Singh’s activities were related primarily to benefiting education.
The Malkhan Singh District Hospital, a facility in Aligarh and Malkhan Nagar, a government colony were named after him. Foreign all of his contribution to the freedom struggle, he was bestowed the title of Aligarh Kesari, or lion of Aligarh.