Lokesh Mathur was born and brought up in Alwar. While attending Raj Rishi College, he started writing. He served as the editor of the college journal. Many of his articles on education were published in local newspapers and magazines. His journalistic pieces were featured in local, state-level and national-level journals and magazines of Alwar.
At the tender age of 18, he dared to publish a fortnightly newspaper called Youngsters Times, which was closed after three issues due to financial reasons. Later, he was indirectly involved in a Hindi monthly magazine published from Alwar.
In 2004, Lokesh started compiling history and historical documents related to Alwar. In 2012, he took advantage of the growing influence of social media to publish historical information, photographs and documents related to Alwar on a Facebook page called The Beautiful Alwar, which continues to this day. More than 3,700 people like this page.
Lokesh joined the United India Insurance Company at Alwar. Currently he is at the post of Assistant Manager based at Jaipur. He continues to remain involved in promoting Alwar and its history.
Editor's note: I am delighted to introduce Shri Lokesh Mathur, an amateur historian, who has spent many years researching the history of his home town, Alwar.
In this eBook, he presents many documents and photographs that capture Alwar's legacy through several perspectives: its thousand year history, its rulers, its important towns and monuments, and its cultural icons.
This is our first eBook in Hindi, a language in which Shri Lokesh Mathur has native fluency.
This eBook is dedicated to Shrimati Dayawanti Khem Chand whose birth anniversary falls on the launch date of this eBook.
