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Lakhau | |
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village | |
  Lakhau Location in Rajasthan, India  Lakhau Lakhau (India) | |
| Coordinates: 28°21′31″N75°05′10″E / 28.35872°N 75.085995°E Coordinates: 28°21′31″N75°05′10″E / 28.35872°N 75.085995°E | |
| Country |  |
| State | Rajasthan |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| ISO 3166 code | RJ-IN |
| Vehicle registration | RJ- |
Lakhau is a village in Churu district of Rajasthan and is the birthplace of Mohar Singh Rathore. The village was founded around 1850 AD by Thakur Khaman Singh, the great-grandfather of Mohar Singh Rathore and Karni Singh Rathore, who on having a dispute with his brothers at Village Ghanghu nearby separated and came to settle here, where there was a Mutt of an ancient saint.
Churu district is a district of the Indian state of Rajasthan in northern India. The town of Churu is the administrative headquarters of the district.
Rajasthan is a state in northern India. The state covers an area of 342,239 square kilometres (132,139 sq mi) or 10.4 percent of the total geographical area of India. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. Rajasthan is located on the northwestern side of India, where it comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert and shares a border with the Pakistani provinces of Punjab to the northwest and Sindh to the west, along the Sutlej-Indus river valley. Elsewhere it is bordered by five other Indian states: Punjab to the north; Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to the northeast; Madhya Pradesh to the southeast; and Gujarat to the southwest.
Mohar Singh Rathore was a social reformer & political Congress worker. He was a follower of Arya Samaji and Acharya Vinoba Bhave's Bhoodan movement. He advocated for social reforms such as discouraging purdah, dowry, child marriage & Un-touchability. He became Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly in 1962 for the first time & remained in active Politics all his life. He contested election for the Legislative Assembly again in 1967 but lost to Sh. Meghraj Mali of BKD but in the subsequent election of 1972 he became M.L.A. again. Again he lost Assembly election in 1977 but never look back. Elections lost and won but his ideology was that the service of the people and the development of the area must go on. He was always instrumental in the overall development of Churu area. founded the girls college at Churu under a public trust CHURU BALIKA MAHAVIDYALAYA. He contested Assemble election from Sardarshahar in 1980 but lost by a small margin of 132 votes but kept on his political work, soon in 1984 he contested the election of the Lok Sabha on the Congress ticket and got elected by a record margin of one lac and eleven thousand votes. He died as a sitting Member of the Parliament of India.
It is the Gram Panchayat Headquarter, Having a Secondary School, as well as a Primary School. The main occupation of the villagers is Agriculture and cattle raising. There are many people of this village who have served in the Army, from the Ranks of Sepoy up to the highest rank of Colonel. The Village is situated right on the National Highway 65, at a distance of about 18 km from Churu, the district headquarter.
Lakhau also a village in Sibsagar district of Assam.
Assam is a state in India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of 78,438 km2 (30,285 sq mi). The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh to the south; and West Bengal to the west via the Siliguri Corridor, a 22 kilometres (14 mi) strip of land that connects the state to the rest of India.
