Pratap Singh Barhat was born in Udaipur in the family of Kesri Singh and Manik Kanwar on 24 May 1893. Pratap Singh attained his primary education in Kota and pursued higher education from Ajmer. The government authorities debarred him from examination because of his involvement in the Indian freedom movement. Ameer Chand trained him to support the anti-British activities in Delhi in the year 1913. His father, Kesri Singh Barhat, was jailed for 20 years and his uncle Jorawar Singh was also imprisoned although the latter escaped from the prison.
During the freedom struggle, he took the responsibility to kill the Home Secretary of British India. At the time of bomb blast, at Chandni Chowk, he was with his father Kesri Singh Barhat. For these incidents, the British government arrested him and sentenced him for imprisonment at the Bareli Jail. Pratap Singh was brutally tortured during imprisonment by the English authorities. But he did not reveal the details of other Indian freedom fighters.
Pratap Singh was found guilty in the Banaras Conspiracy and was sentenced to 5 years of rigorous imprisonment. Distressed by the tortures, Kunwar Pratap Singh Barhat died in prison in May 1918.
Source: Dr. Rajendra Kumar Nirmal, DRP, CCRT
Courtesy: Mr. Narendra Singh Barhat, grandson of late Shri Kunwar Pratap Singh