4.Katehar ke Raghuvanashi – Ekal Hindu Samrat. (in Hindi).
This is a Hindi version of the first book
the plebeians and has become necessary owing to the uproar of my country cousins against their story in english,which they claim they don’t understand, which is not true It is only that do not want to make an effort in reading English, unless they bloody well have to. And they have no compulsions. So it is me who has to do as they say .In fact I had already done so on the sad demise of Shivaji,after he insisted in a Shringar of Saabha Baba that I must write in Hindi as well,just a few days before his ghastly accident.
Not to mind the pretentious ,pompous and highfalutin title of the book ,which is more or less a translation of the title of the book in English on the same subject with the reservation s of Dr. Karan Singh,that as to who would be interested in reading about your family(which he agreed, may also include him).In fact, I have cut-down on the family-dose to minimal on his advise and have put an emphasis on the social and a comparison of the then village life and the city-life,which prospered on the yields of the villages,with proper data of the yields acrage and variety of crops,there-in,apart from tracing history of Varanasi and Ayodhya from the time the Raghuvanshies migrated from Ayodhya to Varanasi in 1194AD,just to feel what our ancestors went through.They came-out quite unscathed,thank you.However,I want to indulge in proper story-telling and all the gossip-mongering,in my mother tongue and at ease and may even exclude the historical caricature of the medieval era,which anyone can find in history books,except for substantiating the title of the book.
I advise anyone interested in the Raghuvanshies should read my blog on Raghuvanshies of Katehar.
Suresh Pratap Singh
At Navi Mumbai
25.05.2009
The blog:Raghuvanshies of Katehar,the plebeian kings—1194AD onwards…
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
other books by the author of the plebeians
forthcoming Books from the author of “the plebeians who would be kings”
"Suresh Pratap Singh,Kaithi,Katehar"
1.Cornwallis revised by Ram Rup Singh in the alluvial ‘Mahaal’ of Kaithi.
There have been some brilliant revenue administrators in north India since the days of Akbar the great, like his own minister Raja Todar mal and about the same time, Sher Shah the Suri emperor himself. Later on Lord Cornwallis of East India Company was blessed with Jonnathan Duncan, who did brilliant settlement operations in Bengal and Bihar,before being sent to do the settlement in the ninety-four parganas of Benares between 1789 and 1793,at first on a quinquennial basis, which, later turned into permanent. But it was done in such a haste that many inaccuracies accompanied it. At the same time it was not done on the basis of revenue villages but its main basis was “mahaal” which consisted of either a full villages(revenue or otherwise) or even parts of some villages, like the alluvial areas formed settlement of a few adjoining villages,which may be falling in different districts. Thus separate maps of the settlement of a village were made ,that of the high-lands and those of the riverine and alluvial areas, which were bound to shift with the change of the meander of the river every monsoon. Under Bengal Alluvial Regulations there were sections for the changing pattern of the realization of the revenue cess, as the position may settle just before 15th of December, every year. And there was a provision for quinquennial settlements every five years.
In Kaithi the change of course of river Gomti in 1980 created much problem after 626.04acres of the village land went on the other side of the river and the district magistrate and the collector of the other side insisted, as per the Bengal Alluvia Regulation(which was not deleted as such) that the entire block of the shifted land ,now attached to their side of villages has become a part and parcel of his district,he wrote to the State government in Lucknow.
Anyway, in the history of revenue law making, the Uttar Pradesh government had defined the “Village” for the first time under section 3(25) of the UP ZA & LR Act and it said that what belonged to the tenents and cultivators of Village Kaithi on the day of vesting(of the Zamindari rights of former Zamindars in the State of Uttar Pradesh)i.e. on 1.07.1952,shall belong to Village Kaithi ,in perpetuity.
It was a tough fight for the Kaithi tenents.and on 13.01.1981,the revenue secretary passed orders as per the new act, passed by the Assembly. The brilliance of Thakur Ram Rup Singhji with his vast experience in the work of settlement was able to turn the tide on the collector across the river and against the Bengal Alluvial Regulations laid down by the hard work of Duncan as ordered by Cornwallis.
I intend publishing the entire story of how we achieved this result, through the various GOs of the government from that of Dashrath Singh’s and G.C. Chaturvedi’s in 1954 to that of Sri Athar Hussain in 1971,as a future guidance for the Kaithi cultivators as well as for the UP government’s revenue officials as well as for the Board of Revenue who seldom come across such tricky situation for their peaceful confabulations between them and not allow the conflict to turn ugly for lack of proper guidelines.
"Suresh Pratap Singh,Kaithi,Katehar"
1.Cornwallis revised by Ram Rup Singh in the alluvial ‘Mahaal’ of Kaithi.
There have been some brilliant revenue administrators in north India since the days of Akbar the great, like his own minister Raja Todar mal and about the same time, Sher Shah the Suri emperor himself. Later on Lord Cornwallis of East India Company was blessed with Jonnathan Duncan, who did brilliant settlement operations in Bengal and Bihar,before being sent to do the settlement in the ninety-four parganas of Benares between 1789 and 1793,at first on a quinquennial basis, which, later turned into permanent. But it was done in such a haste that many inaccuracies accompanied it. At the same time it was not done on the basis of revenue villages but its main basis was “mahaal” which consisted of either a full villages(revenue or otherwise) or even parts of some villages, like the alluvial areas formed settlement of a few adjoining villages,which may be falling in different districts. Thus separate maps of the settlement of a village were made ,that of the high-lands and those of the riverine and alluvial areas, which were bound to shift with the change of the meander of the river every monsoon. Under Bengal Alluvial Regulations there were sections for the changing pattern of the realization of the revenue cess, as the position may settle just before 15th of December, every year. And there was a provision for quinquennial settlements every five years.
In Kaithi the change of course of river Gomti in 1980 created much problem after 626.04acres of the village land went on the other side of the river and the district magistrate and the collector of the other side insisted, as per the Bengal Alluvia Regulation(which was not deleted as such) that the entire block of the shifted land ,now attached to their side of villages has become a part and parcel of his district,he wrote to the State government in Lucknow.
Anyway, in the history of revenue law making, the Uttar Pradesh government had defined the “Village” for the first time under section 3(25) of the UP ZA & LR Act and it said that what belonged to the tenents and cultivators of Village Kaithi on the day of vesting(of the Zamindari rights of former Zamindars in the State of Uttar Pradesh)i.e. on 1.07.1952,shall belong to Village Kaithi ,in perpetuity.
It was a tough fight for the Kaithi tenents.and on 13.01.1981,the revenue secretary passed orders as per the new act, passed by the Assembly. The brilliance of Thakur Ram Rup Singhji with his vast experience in the work of settlement was able to turn the tide on the collector across the river and against the Bengal Alluvial Regulations laid down by the hard work of Duncan as ordered by Cornwallis.
I intend publishing the entire story of how we achieved this result, through the various GOs of the government from that of Dashrath Singh’s and G.C. Chaturvedi’s in 1954 to that of Sri Athar Hussain in 1971,as a future guidance for the Kaithi cultivators as well as for the UP government’s revenue officials as well as for the Board of Revenue who seldom come across such tricky situation for their peaceful confabulations between them and not allow the conflict to turn ugly for lack of proper guidelines.
Friday, May 22, 2009
proposed Preface for the Plebeians who would be kings
Preface to the “Plebeians”
“The plebeians who would be the kings”: copyright No.:L-28065/2007.
A Preface being an introduction to a book, gives an outline to the material, there-in and if that is so, then what I have called as Book I, is the proper Preface of my book, which however is very lengthy, so this piece is being added.
I have very romantically called this book or the explorations, there-in as something that I was destined to do, or was born for doing so. Someone reading my lines on the palm may declare so. But after seeing the mediocre outcome of the so-called a work of the destiny, does’nt impress even me. I would ,much rather, say that it has been a matter of chance that I was born in the 1st House of Katehar, about which, by now, every one had quite forgotten, through unceasing rigorous work of agriculture, through generations of a mean and miserly(saving stock of grain for three years against likely poor harvest, in dry-land farming) livelihood. And as the things were destined to happen , I lost my father at a very young age and was taken away to live in Nainital in suddenly an awesome comfort of good life. I turned from a topper to a mediocre second class student , but as destined, I got into the merchant-marine and went around the world many times over. I had the good sense of sending half the money home and called it a day at sea, owing to overwhelming sentiments for father and also for the mother-land, for reasons explained in the text akin to the Preface, and may be unduly so and in a fit of anguish, the way things were going.
However, even before things happened that made me talk of destiny, as if I was the chosen one to redeem the “Raghuvanshies of Katehar”, as if they would have perished otherwise, line, hook and sinker .I doubt any one is ever so thrilled among the country-cousins of Katehar, let alone those of Dobhi, who are insisting on a combined history of the two, notwithstanding the pargana of Sultanipur between the two of them and poles apart in the history and geography of the region I fear it may be berated amongst even amongst the closest of the cousins (simply for having done it). Another certainty is that only one copy would suffice for the entire village, which should come along unpaid for. So specially for the villages with the tag of the 1st house I am keeping something up my sleeve, that every one must buy at least the second edition or the Hindi version, which I intend calling; ”Katehar ke Raghuvanshi,ekal Hindu Samrat ,1194AD to 1793AD’ for the following reason,found in a book given to me by Rao Barauli.I quote:
Page(134)
Hindu Kings
The city was founded some three thousand years back .A detailed history of Kashi in chronological order is not traceable Only inscriptions on stone pillars and the existence of old temples and copper plates give us some rudimentary ideas about the line of kings that ruled Banaras .The city was under the sway of the kings of Kanauj for a considerable time. After the defeat of Raja Jai Chandra by the mussalman invaders one branch of the family fled eastward and set up and independent state. For many years the Gaharwar princes ruled banaras and afterwards they were compelled to retire to Kantit and Bana. The last in the line of the Gaharwar erected the old Rajput fort at Rajghat.The present Kantit family in Mirzapur claims its ancestry from this time.
The Kanauj kings did not penetrate in land and the country was held by Soeries,Bhars and other unsubdued tribes, who were independent throughout Avadh and the eastern districts. The district even today abounds with Bhars especially in Banaras tehsil.
Rajput colonization does not appear to have begun before the 12th or the13th centuries. This is the period popularly assigned to the establishment of the Raghubansi power. One Deo Kunwar came from Ayodhya ,the ancient seat of Raghubansis and married the daughter of Raja Banar, obtaining as dowry the Taluqa of Niar.The Raghubansis are the only Rajputs in the district who seemed to have acquired a position of independence.The Raghubansis claim descent from one Doman Deo,ninth in the direct descent from Deo Kunwar, who lived during the regime of Sikander Lodi and held Katehar as a rent-free tenure.” Unquote;
So even the history that speaks of us has Princess Bindumati married off to Deo Kunwar.Which in our bard’s story is married to the last King of Ayodhya, Nain deo. whose son was Salhe Kunwar, who fathered None Rao and Nangayee Rao While None Rao went away to Kashmir, Nangayee Rao fathered Deo Kunwar, who settled Deorayee in 1380AD.His great grand-father married the daughter of Raja Banar, sometime after 1194AD,after Jai Chandra shifted him to Rajghat in Varanasi or Banaras.Again,Doman Deo is said in the above description as the ninth in the descent from Deo Kunwar.Whereas factually, after Deo Kunwar,it was Birhaj Rai,then Pukar Rai,then Rai Khemraj Singh,then Udai Chand,then Ugaa Thakurayee,whose second son was Doman Deo who comes out to be seventh in line.
Doman Deo was contemporary of Sikander Lodi and even Sher Shah Suri(who had worked in his stable as a runaway in between 1501 to 1515)) upto 1545AD,i.e. three hundred and fifty years after the Raghuvanshies migrated from Ayodhya, and its odd that all Raghuvanshies claim descent from Doman Deo.So one purpose of this exercise is also for the purpose of correction of records in such haphazard descriptions as much as in some old Govt. Gazeteers, and bring for public viewing the correct order of the lineage,and specially for our suspicious cousins in Jaunpur,calling all Katehar cousins not only descendants of Doman Deo,but also of his Ahir consort(in jest).For the records sake Doman Deo fathered five sons from that lady,called,Jalho Mokal,Amba,Chan and Bariyasan Singh.Doman Deo’s other son was Kalyan Shah, whose son Ayirran Shah built the Ayar Kot ,near Varanasi, whose eleventh descent Pratap Narain Singh was adopted by maharaja of Vijayanagaram in Andhra Pradesh and Vijjy etc. were his descent and came to Chandravati ,near Kaithi to claim their share.
Our family bard Banshi Kavi made a record by his memory as a lot of preserved genealogy was thrown in the river Gomti,over some dispute between them, by the descendants of the Chaubeys who came from Ayodhya,accompanying Nain Deo,the last King of Ayodhya.He has done a remarkable work,but his mixing-up of Anno-Domini and Vikram Samvat is quite perplexing at times.
I have taken the benchmark of my own uncles birthdate from the Civil List and gone backwards,allotting a generous twenty-five years as an average to each of my long-living ancestors,eg.130(Ram Sunder Singh),110(Bharat Singh),96(Ram Rup Singh).instead of ASI’s meager 19 and a half years as an average for each generation,as Director Monuments Sri Soundarajan used for calculating Ayodhya’s age as per their excavations and comparing the same with my own table till Ikshawaku son of Manu and Satrupa,who established Ayodhya.Mr. Soundarajan was highly impressed and wrote to me twice, seeking information about the direct lineal descendants of the Raghuyvanshy dynasty of Ayodhya i.e. us.
I have to indeed mention the genealogical table come to my possession,also by chance and good wishes of the village-folk towards the family which had me moving with an invigorating zeal towards what the retired district judge had predicted about me,years ago,in the Lucknow Coffee House,to Thakur Ram Rup Singhji,on reading my palm.I traveled to Gaya and met our family panda(the record-keeper) and checked on the entries of my ancestors about the mystery of the 1857 martyr,Jaipal Singh,about which I read a paper in ICHR session of Kurukshetra and put in the website called , www.1857-amartyramong pwwbks.com and the same will be annexed in the book under consideration.There is another paper I should speak about which I read in the ICHR session of Mumbai,was “SherShah in the court of Doman Deo”.Although the great meandering catastrophy of the river Gomti in 1980,pulled me away from my preoccupation of the Raghuvanshies.
Again,it was the 150th anniversary of the martyrdom of Jaipal Singh that brought me back to get active in the cause of the book.I hope I will not keep my cousins and others waiting for too long,as I have decided to do it on my own,entirely,no body being attracted by my website or the blog.
I hope I am able to keep your attention glued to my story-telling in vernacular English,which I thought was fine for merchant marine globe-trotting,but realized its vagary starting on this project.And the requirement of my country cousins of the same book to be written in Hindi has also become my compulsion,so bless me to complete the Hindi version ,soonest ,but not so soon so as to stop you from buying this one,in the meanwhile,because that will not be an out and out translation.So please do not miss out the fantacy of the plebeians at your service.
Suresh Pratap Singh
Navi Mumbai
22.05.2009
“The plebeians who would be the kings”: copyright No.:L-28065/2007.
A Preface being an introduction to a book, gives an outline to the material, there-in and if that is so, then what I have called as Book I, is the proper Preface of my book, which however is very lengthy, so this piece is being added.
I have very romantically called this book or the explorations, there-in as something that I was destined to do, or was born for doing so. Someone reading my lines on the palm may declare so. But after seeing the mediocre outcome of the so-called a work of the destiny, does’nt impress even me. I would ,much rather, say that it has been a matter of chance that I was born in the 1st House of Katehar, about which, by now, every one had quite forgotten, through unceasing rigorous work of agriculture, through generations of a mean and miserly(saving stock of grain for three years against likely poor harvest, in dry-land farming) livelihood. And as the things were destined to happen , I lost my father at a very young age and was taken away to live in Nainital in suddenly an awesome comfort of good life. I turned from a topper to a mediocre second class student , but as destined, I got into the merchant-marine and went around the world many times over. I had the good sense of sending half the money home and called it a day at sea, owing to overwhelming sentiments for father and also for the mother-land, for reasons explained in the text akin to the Preface, and may be unduly so and in a fit of anguish, the way things were going.
However, even before things happened that made me talk of destiny, as if I was the chosen one to redeem the “Raghuvanshies of Katehar”, as if they would have perished otherwise, line, hook and sinker .I doubt any one is ever so thrilled among the country-cousins of Katehar, let alone those of Dobhi, who are insisting on a combined history of the two, notwithstanding the pargana of Sultanipur between the two of them and poles apart in the history and geography of the region I fear it may be berated amongst even amongst the closest of the cousins (simply for having done it). Another certainty is that only one copy would suffice for the entire village, which should come along unpaid for. So specially for the villages with the tag of the 1st house I am keeping something up my sleeve, that every one must buy at least the second edition or the Hindi version, which I intend calling; ”Katehar ke Raghuvanshi,ekal Hindu Samrat ,1194AD to 1793AD’ for the following reason,found in a book given to me by Rao Barauli.I quote:
Page(134)
Hindu Kings
The city was founded some three thousand years back .A detailed history of Kashi in chronological order is not traceable Only inscriptions on stone pillars and the existence of old temples and copper plates give us some rudimentary ideas about the line of kings that ruled Banaras .The city was under the sway of the kings of Kanauj for a considerable time. After the defeat of Raja Jai Chandra by the mussalman invaders one branch of the family fled eastward and set up and independent state. For many years the Gaharwar princes ruled banaras and afterwards they were compelled to retire to Kantit and Bana. The last in the line of the Gaharwar erected the old Rajput fort at Rajghat.The present Kantit family in Mirzapur claims its ancestry from this time.
The Kanauj kings did not penetrate in land and the country was held by Soeries,Bhars and other unsubdued tribes, who were independent throughout Avadh and the eastern districts. The district even today abounds with Bhars especially in Banaras tehsil.
Rajput colonization does not appear to have begun before the 12th or the13th centuries. This is the period popularly assigned to the establishment of the Raghubansi power. One Deo Kunwar came from Ayodhya ,the ancient seat of Raghubansis and married the daughter of Raja Banar, obtaining as dowry the Taluqa of Niar.The Raghubansis are the only Rajputs in the district who seemed to have acquired a position of independence.The Raghubansis claim descent from one Doman Deo,ninth in the direct descent from Deo Kunwar, who lived during the regime of Sikander Lodi and held Katehar as a rent-free tenure.” Unquote;
So even the history that speaks of us has Princess Bindumati married off to Deo Kunwar.Which in our bard’s story is married to the last King of Ayodhya, Nain deo. whose son was Salhe Kunwar, who fathered None Rao and Nangayee Rao While None Rao went away to Kashmir, Nangayee Rao fathered Deo Kunwar, who settled Deorayee in 1380AD.His great grand-father married the daughter of Raja Banar, sometime after 1194AD,after Jai Chandra shifted him to Rajghat in Varanasi or Banaras.Again,Doman Deo is said in the above description as the ninth in the descent from Deo Kunwar.Whereas factually, after Deo Kunwar,it was Birhaj Rai,then Pukar Rai,then Rai Khemraj Singh,then Udai Chand,then Ugaa Thakurayee,whose second son was Doman Deo who comes out to be seventh in line.
Doman Deo was contemporary of Sikander Lodi and even Sher Shah Suri(who had worked in his stable as a runaway in between 1501 to 1515)) upto 1545AD,i.e. three hundred and fifty years after the Raghuvanshies migrated from Ayodhya, and its odd that all Raghuvanshies claim descent from Doman Deo.So one purpose of this exercise is also for the purpose of correction of records in such haphazard descriptions as much as in some old Govt. Gazeteers, and bring for public viewing the correct order of the lineage,and specially for our suspicious cousins in Jaunpur,calling all Katehar cousins not only descendants of Doman Deo,but also of his Ahir consort(in jest).For the records sake Doman Deo fathered five sons from that lady,called,Jalho Mokal,Amba,Chan and Bariyasan Singh.Doman Deo’s other son was Kalyan Shah, whose son Ayirran Shah built the Ayar Kot ,near Varanasi, whose eleventh descent Pratap Narain Singh was adopted by maharaja of Vijayanagaram in Andhra Pradesh and Vijjy etc. were his descent and came to Chandravati ,near Kaithi to claim their share.
Our family bard Banshi Kavi made a record by his memory as a lot of preserved genealogy was thrown in the river Gomti,over some dispute between them, by the descendants of the Chaubeys who came from Ayodhya,accompanying Nain Deo,the last King of Ayodhya.He has done a remarkable work,but his mixing-up of Anno-Domini and Vikram Samvat is quite perplexing at times.
I have taken the benchmark of my own uncles birthdate from the Civil List and gone backwards,allotting a generous twenty-five years as an average to each of my long-living ancestors,eg.130(Ram Sunder Singh),110(Bharat Singh),96(Ram Rup Singh).instead of ASI’s meager 19 and a half years as an average for each generation,as Director Monuments Sri Soundarajan used for calculating Ayodhya’s age as per their excavations and comparing the same with my own table till Ikshawaku son of Manu and Satrupa,who established Ayodhya.Mr. Soundarajan was highly impressed and wrote to me twice, seeking information about the direct lineal descendants of the Raghuyvanshy dynasty of Ayodhya i.e. us.
I have to indeed mention the genealogical table come to my possession,also by chance and good wishes of the village-folk towards the family which had me moving with an invigorating zeal towards what the retired district judge had predicted about me,years ago,in the Lucknow Coffee House,to Thakur Ram Rup Singhji,on reading my palm.I traveled to Gaya and met our family panda(the record-keeper) and checked on the entries of my ancestors about the mystery of the 1857 martyr,Jaipal Singh,about which I read a paper in ICHR session of Kurukshetra and put in the website called , www.1857-amartyramong pwwbks.com and the same will be annexed in the book under consideration.There is another paper I should speak about which I read in the ICHR session of Mumbai,was “SherShah in the court of Doman Deo”.Although the great meandering catastrophy of the river Gomti in 1980,pulled me away from my preoccupation of the Raghuvanshies.
Again,it was the 150th anniversary of the martyrdom of Jaipal Singh that brought me back to get active in the cause of the book.I hope I will not keep my cousins and others waiting for too long,as I have decided to do it on my own,entirely,no body being attracted by my website or the blog.
I hope I am able to keep your attention glued to my story-telling in vernacular English,which I thought was fine for merchant marine globe-trotting,but realized its vagary starting on this project.And the requirement of my country cousins of the same book to be written in Hindi has also become my compulsion,so bless me to complete the Hindi version ,soonest ,but not so soon so as to stop you from buying this one,in the meanwhile,because that will not be an out and out translation.So please do not miss out the fantacy of the plebeians at your service.
Suresh Pratap Singh
Navi Mumbai
22.05.2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Bio data and struggle in life, all along, for survival.
Dear Sir,
I am applying for the opening, as presently shut-out for combine chief’s jobs owing to some mischief at DG Shipping by curtailing the life-line of my Certificate of Competency awarded by the Govt. of India, Ministry of Transport, duly ratified by the act of Parliament, and against which deliberate act of mischief , I have duly represented. Meanwhile , I am keeping myself busy in completing of the DTP work of my book “the plebeians who would be kings’
I can trace my career as follows, for presenting to you
.
1.July 1958:Joined the DMET for three years of marine engineering course at Mumbai, simultaneously three years practical training at M/S.Scindia Workshop Pvt. Ltd.
2.Fourth year at Marine Engineering College at Calcutta.
3.Passed-out from there, as the Best Cadet Captain in July 1962.
4 .Joined M/S. India Steamship Company Pvt. Ltd. in Howaldt’s werke Deutschwerft built turbines as well as on American’s Westinghouse and General Electric Turbine Ships, thereby achieving Ministry of Transport’s 1st Class certificate of competency at the age of thirty years .Also sailed on Motor ship to fill motor time for a combine certificate later-on.
5June,1971 :Resigned and shifted to 22-generations old village home to bring order to doldrums prevailing there ,after the death of my father in June,1952.
6. Very nearly contested 1973 U.P. Assembly Elections as a candidate of Socialist Party.
7.September 1976:Appointed “Executive Secretary” of the Janata Party ,by Chaudhary Charan Singhji and stayed at VP House with the General Secretary ,Sri B.P.Singhji.
8.1979-80:Ticket for Parliament from Janata(S) to contest from Ghazipur(50) denied after Sri Madhu Limaye retuning from Soviet Russia and my Ticket was given to CPI leader Sri Saryu Pandey.
9.7.09.1980: a major catastrophe took place in the place of birth, that of 626.04acres of alluvial land on the confluence of rivers Gomti and Ganges, went on the other side of the river Gomti at one stroke by the shifting of the course of river Gomti. The district Collector of the district on the other side of the river started to claim this as a property of his district and a long battle ensued and my time was passed in the State Secretariat ,the Board of Revenue and the High Court of Allahabad ,trying to gain back our lost property without having to file a suit on our own.
10.In between ,I was involved with the ICHR ,reading four papers and conducting research on the migration of Raghuvanshies from Ayodhya to Varanasi in 1194AD.
11.Joined Dredging Corporation of India as a Project Manager in Goa and Karwar,May 1982 till August 1983.
12.Nearly three years taken in two High Courts and the Supreme Court of India, sorting out service matter with the DCI Ltd. As a party in person ,but successfully,so.
13Continued helping retired uncle and an authority on revenue matters in the village matter, under Bengal Alluvial Regulation and UP ZA & LR Acts ,at the same time.
And by October 1984,cultivation started once more in the riverine belt of Kaithi.
14. Left the DCI Ltd. And started to sail in foreign going ships from August 1989 for another ten years.
15.Then another break of ten years from sailing, for building a Marine Academy in Varanasi and Mumbai, but eventually settled in teaching engineering in pre-sea training Institution in Varanasi for three years.
16.Returned to Shipping Corporation of India to sail again for refreshing ,updating and revalidating the MOT Certificate of Competency ,under new rules framed at random.
Name of the Candidate :Suresh Pratap Singh
Age : 68 years
C.O.C .No. of MOT :95 W-5067( 1st Class Combine(Steam and Motor)
Passport No. :A0 140281(valid till 26.03.2017)
CDC No . :A57776(valid till 18.08.2014)
Spl.Medical(abv.65yrs) :Fr.St.Georges,Mumbai,Sr.No.126(valid till ,3.12.2009)
Medical 1st Aid Cert. :No.:BPMA/M/153/2004
Passenger Ship course,
& Crisis Management :No.APS/B 39/03 (issued 31st Dec.2004)
Varanasi Address : R.M.House
N16/132 B,Vinayaka, Kamachha
Varanasi-221010(UP)
Phone:0542-2361159
Mobile. :Smt. Savitri Raghuvanshy:09793280405
Home Address :Sees Chand Mansion
Village & Post:Kaithi(Markandey)
P.S.:Chaubeypur
Distt. Varanasi-221116
Family Status :Spouse :Savitri Singh
:Son : Sunny Sees Chand ; marine engineer with Harold Marine Serv.
Daughters: Two: both married
Thanking you for your kind patience.
Yours Obediently
Suresh Pratap Singh
Chartered Engineer(London)
Marine Chief Engineer
E-4,6/23 Spaghetti
Sector-15,,Kharghar
Navi –Mumbai -410210
Ph.: 022-27745804
Email:spsinghesq @ rediffmail.com
spsinghnavy@hotmail.com
singhsp65@yahoo.com
singh.suresh99@gmail.com
I am applying for the opening, as presently shut-out for combine chief’s jobs owing to some mischief at DG Shipping by curtailing the life-line of my Certificate of Competency awarded by the Govt. of India, Ministry of Transport, duly ratified by the act of Parliament, and against which deliberate act of mischief , I have duly represented. Meanwhile , I am keeping myself busy in completing of the DTP work of my book “the plebeians who would be kings’
I can trace my career as follows, for presenting to you
.
1.July 1958:Joined the DMET for three years of marine engineering course at Mumbai, simultaneously three years practical training at M/S.Scindia Workshop Pvt. Ltd.
2.Fourth year at Marine Engineering College at Calcutta.
3.Passed-out from there, as the Best Cadet Captain in July 1962.
4 .Joined M/S. India Steamship Company Pvt. Ltd. in Howaldt’s werke Deutschwerft built turbines as well as on American’s Westinghouse and General Electric Turbine Ships, thereby achieving Ministry of Transport’s 1st Class certificate of competency at the age of thirty years .Also sailed on Motor ship to fill motor time for a combine certificate later-on.
5June,1971 :Resigned and shifted to 22-generations old village home to bring order to doldrums prevailing there ,after the death of my father in June,1952.
6. Very nearly contested 1973 U.P. Assembly Elections as a candidate of Socialist Party.
7.September 1976:Appointed “Executive Secretary” of the Janata Party ,by Chaudhary Charan Singhji and stayed at VP House with the General Secretary ,Sri B.P.Singhji.
8.1979-80:Ticket for Parliament from Janata(S) to contest from Ghazipur(50) denied after Sri Madhu Limaye retuning from Soviet Russia and my Ticket was given to CPI leader Sri Saryu Pandey.
9.7.09.1980: a major catastrophe took place in the place of birth, that of 626.04acres of alluvial land on the confluence of rivers Gomti and Ganges, went on the other side of the river Gomti at one stroke by the shifting of the course of river Gomti. The district Collector of the district on the other side of the river started to claim this as a property of his district and a long battle ensued and my time was passed in the State Secretariat ,the Board of Revenue and the High Court of Allahabad ,trying to gain back our lost property without having to file a suit on our own.
10.In between ,I was involved with the ICHR ,reading four papers and conducting research on the migration of Raghuvanshies from Ayodhya to Varanasi in 1194AD.
11.Joined Dredging Corporation of India as a Project Manager in Goa and Karwar,May 1982 till August 1983.
12.Nearly three years taken in two High Courts and the Supreme Court of India, sorting out service matter with the DCI Ltd. As a party in person ,but successfully,so.
13Continued helping retired uncle and an authority on revenue matters in the village matter, under Bengal Alluvial Regulation and UP ZA & LR Acts ,at the same time.
And by October 1984,cultivation started once more in the riverine belt of Kaithi.
14. Left the DCI Ltd. And started to sail in foreign going ships from August 1989 for another ten years.
15.Then another break of ten years from sailing, for building a Marine Academy in Varanasi and Mumbai, but eventually settled in teaching engineering in pre-sea training Institution in Varanasi for three years.
16.Returned to Shipping Corporation of India to sail again for refreshing ,updating and revalidating the MOT Certificate of Competency ,under new rules framed at random.
Name of the Candidate :Suresh Pratap Singh
Age : 68 years
C.O.C .No. of MOT :95 W-5067( 1st Class Combine(Steam and Motor)
Passport No. :A0 140281(valid till 26.03.2017)
CDC No . :A57776(valid till 18.08.2014)
Spl.Medical(abv.65yrs) :Fr.St.Georges,Mumbai,Sr.No.126(valid till ,3.12.2009)
Medical 1st Aid Cert. :No.:BPMA/M/153/2004
Passenger Ship course,
& Crisis Management :No.APS/B 39/03 (issued 31st Dec.2004)
Varanasi Address : R.M.House
N16/132 B,Vinayaka, Kamachha
Varanasi-221010(UP)
Phone:0542-2361159
Mobile. :Smt. Savitri Raghuvanshy:09793280405
Home Address :Sees Chand Mansion
Village & Post:Kaithi(Markandey)
P.S.:Chaubeypur
Distt. Varanasi-221116
Family Status :Spouse :Savitri Singh
:Son : Sunny Sees Chand ; marine engineer with Harold Marine Serv.
Daughters: Two: both married
Thanking you for your kind patience.
Yours Obediently
Suresh Pratap Singh
Chartered Engineer(London)
Marine Chief Engineer
E-4,6/23 Spaghetti
Sector-15,,Kharghar
Navi –Mumbai -410210
Ph.: 022-27745804
Email:spsinghesq @ rediffmail.com
spsinghnavy@hotmail.com
singhsp65@yahoo.com
singh.suresh99@gmail.com
Thursday, May 14, 2009
return to Kaithi-ask Beni Madho Singh as to why?
All return to Kaithi,owing to just discovered it’s far-reaching significance,till the doom’day,if there is ever going to be one.
The triangular area coming between an imaginary triangle formed by drawing of a line from the Rajwari -railway bridge over river Gomti to the east of Doman Deo’s demolished mud-fortress and passing on the south-west of the temple of the first Tirthanker’s(Rishabdeo) temple or perhaps even his birthplace in Chandravati upto the Holy Ganges and joining this imaginary line to the new and the original confluence(at the time of Markandey Rishi) of the Gomti with the Ganges and from there back to the Rajwari rail bridge , is found to be of great significance vis-à-vis the onslaught of the imminent “Pralaya” or the doom’s day of the Bible ,as this is being equated to the Noah’s Arc at the time of the last holocaust by the floods of fury to end the world’s existence ,which as the Bible says ,saved a pair of all the species of the flora and fauna and the humanity of course to start another day and another cycle of the World-order.
So all people belonging to Kaithi return to your home-land and stand-by your home-stead and whatever bit of property is remaining in your name, there build a tenement over it for your ownself and who knows for many of your kith and kin and dear and close relatives and friends over the period .So, all the big shots of Kaithi, becoming multi-millionaires else-where ,come back to Kaithi and I can hardly oodle enough of Harry Belafonte’s –“Come back, Eliza, come back, girl – to solid honchos and prim and proper guys, but I do mean as much as Harry singing for his beloved, who had left for the Americas and had dumped him in the West Indies So don’t dump Kaithi and I have warned you,timely and it is all for your own good.
Please don’t insinuate that I am preaching but not practicing from Navi Mumbai, also away from danger-zone locally. I am here only for a short while, trying to find ways and means to publish your story with it’s imminent historicity. And no sooner I succeed, I will scoot for spending my last year or so as some have predicted or last forty years as others have pacified my hurt of dying so young to spend in the place of my birth in the House of Sees Chand built on Rai Chan Singh’s original premises.
I think I shall build a new abode for myself ,as I am getting so much used to living in brand new houses and leave the glorious and raisond’etre’ of my coming to this world to all the very many co-parceners so very keen about the share but none towards it’s upkeep( which is only my duty ,as the only one to have been born in the new version of the Mansion).It may not be necessary to spell-out the necessity of continued up-keep and maintenance by those desirous of a share in the pie(surely after putting forward their claim’s veracity in everyway),or else I shall continue to do so with whatever diminishing returns at my disposal .However , my above call shall work as magic potion to all and sundry. And I do want my burden of carrying forward my late father’s obligations to be over, before August 2011(seemingly the ominous date so far, although I shall try hard not to let that happen, by keeping good health and so on—and shall beat both Bharat Baba and Ram Sunder baba at the time-count).
So, all of you,once again,I shout out loud and clear to “fly by her side and never let her go.” Come to Kaithi and Come back soon.
Yours Lovingly for ever.
Suresh Pratap Singh, at Mumbai.15th of May,2009.
The triangular area coming between an imaginary triangle formed by drawing of a line from the Rajwari -railway bridge over river Gomti to the east of Doman Deo’s demolished mud-fortress and passing on the south-west of the temple of the first Tirthanker’s(Rishabdeo) temple or perhaps even his birthplace in Chandravati upto the Holy Ganges and joining this imaginary line to the new and the original confluence(at the time of Markandey Rishi) of the Gomti with the Ganges and from there back to the Rajwari rail bridge , is found to be of great significance vis-à-vis the onslaught of the imminent “Pralaya” or the doom’s day of the Bible ,as this is being equated to the Noah’s Arc at the time of the last holocaust by the floods of fury to end the world’s existence ,which as the Bible says ,saved a pair of all the species of the flora and fauna and the humanity of course to start another day and another cycle of the World-order.
So all people belonging to Kaithi return to your home-land and stand-by your home-stead and whatever bit of property is remaining in your name, there build a tenement over it for your ownself and who knows for many of your kith and kin and dear and close relatives and friends over the period .So, all the big shots of Kaithi, becoming multi-millionaires else-where ,come back to Kaithi and I can hardly oodle enough of Harry Belafonte’s –“Come back, Eliza, come back, girl – to solid honchos and prim and proper guys, but I do mean as much as Harry singing for his beloved, who had left for the Americas and had dumped him in the West Indies So don’t dump Kaithi and I have warned you,timely and it is all for your own good.
Please don’t insinuate that I am preaching but not practicing from Navi Mumbai, also away from danger-zone locally. I am here only for a short while, trying to find ways and means to publish your story with it’s imminent historicity. And no sooner I succeed, I will scoot for spending my last year or so as some have predicted or last forty years as others have pacified my hurt of dying so young to spend in the place of my birth in the House of Sees Chand built on Rai Chan Singh’s original premises.
I think I shall build a new abode for myself ,as I am getting so much used to living in brand new houses and leave the glorious and raisond’etre’ of my coming to this world to all the very many co-parceners so very keen about the share but none towards it’s upkeep( which is only my duty ,as the only one to have been born in the new version of the Mansion).It may not be necessary to spell-out the necessity of continued up-keep and maintenance by those desirous of a share in the pie(surely after putting forward their claim’s veracity in everyway),or else I shall continue to do so with whatever diminishing returns at my disposal .However , my above call shall work as magic potion to all and sundry. And I do want my burden of carrying forward my late father’s obligations to be over, before August 2011(seemingly the ominous date so far, although I shall try hard not to let that happen, by keeping good health and so on—and shall beat both Bharat Baba and Ram Sunder baba at the time-count).
So, all of you,once again,I shout out loud and clear to “fly by her side and never let her go.” Come to Kaithi and Come back soon.
Yours Lovingly for ever.
Suresh Pratap Singh, at Mumbai.15th of May,2009.
the book should be in four parts ?
My book is already in four parts and is called as Book I, book II, book III and book IV, each of about 125 pages or so, and a total of 500 pages.
Book I deals with the intended attack on Ayodhya in 1026AD by Syed Sallar Jung Ghazi Mian, grand-son of Mahmud Ghazni,and his slaying by a Bhar Raja Suheldeo to save King Veeram Deo of the Raghuvanshies.
Then the decision of the then sovereign Jaichand of shifting the last Raghuvanshy King of Ayodhya Nain Deo to the forest fortressed Katehar in Varanasi and marrying him with his grand-neice Bindumati, whose children we are all,the Raghuvanshiesof today.
After the fall of the Gaharwars dynasty,it was the turn of the Raghuvanshies of Katehar to attain the status of “Hindu Kings”,as for as the history books go,but we remained tillers of the soil, notwithstanding 400 horse’s cavalry and 5000 foot soldiers at our disposal to maintain our status as “independent land-owners” for 600 years till 1793AD.
Somehow,we attained the benediction of Ghiasuddin Tuglaq (1321AD), Sikander Lodi and finally Sher Shah Suri(1545AD),who did not seek any cess from us either.
Book II, deals with the famous Permanent Settlement of Lord Cornwallis(1789-1793) and all the intricacies of revenue law and matters, drawing from my own experience in 626.04acres of our alluvial-riverine land gone on the other side of river Gomti in 1980.
BookIII,is a lucid translation of Raghuvansh-Mahakavya by Kalidas,describing the journey of the first world-conqueror, Raghu, the great grand father of Ram.
BookIV,is about Ayodhya’s transit through 1194 to the 1st war of independence fought thro Awadh to Aarrah and the exploits of Veer Senani Kunwar Singh-Tegva Bahadur, with whom my own ancestor Jaipal singh joined and died fighting.
Will it be a good idea to publish the book in four parts to make it light weight and more convenient to carry-about? Besides a smaller price-tag and selected customer preference, like many guys may never want to know anything about Duncan’s permanent settlement, except those concerned with it in the past, hence curious.
Please advise on the issue of multi-facet production of the book. Phone me, by and by, and send guidance by email. Thanks.
Sincerely.
Suresh Pratap Singh, at Mumbai.15.05.09
Book I deals with the intended attack on Ayodhya in 1026AD by Syed Sallar Jung Ghazi Mian, grand-son of Mahmud Ghazni,and his slaying by a Bhar Raja Suheldeo to save King Veeram Deo of the Raghuvanshies.
Then the decision of the then sovereign Jaichand of shifting the last Raghuvanshy King of Ayodhya Nain Deo to the forest fortressed Katehar in Varanasi and marrying him with his grand-neice Bindumati, whose children we are all,the Raghuvanshiesof today.
After the fall of the Gaharwars dynasty,it was the turn of the Raghuvanshies of Katehar to attain the status of “Hindu Kings”,as for as the history books go,but we remained tillers of the soil, notwithstanding 400 horse’s cavalry and 5000 foot soldiers at our disposal to maintain our status as “independent land-owners” for 600 years till 1793AD.
Somehow,we attained the benediction of Ghiasuddin Tuglaq (1321AD), Sikander Lodi and finally Sher Shah Suri(1545AD),who did not seek any cess from us either.
Book II, deals with the famous Permanent Settlement of Lord Cornwallis(1789-1793) and all the intricacies of revenue law and matters, drawing from my own experience in 626.04acres of our alluvial-riverine land gone on the other side of river Gomti in 1980.
BookIII,is a lucid translation of Raghuvansh-Mahakavya by Kalidas,describing the journey of the first world-conqueror, Raghu, the great grand father of Ram.
BookIV,is about Ayodhya’s transit through 1194 to the 1st war of independence fought thro Awadh to Aarrah and the exploits of Veer Senani Kunwar Singh-Tegva Bahadur, with whom my own ancestor Jaipal singh joined and died fighting.
Will it be a good idea to publish the book in four parts to make it light weight and more convenient to carry-about? Besides a smaller price-tag and selected customer preference, like many guys may never want to know anything about Duncan’s permanent settlement, except those concerned with it in the past, hence curious.
Please advise on the issue of multi-facet production of the book. Phone me, by and by, and send guidance by email. Thanks.
Sincerely.
Suresh Pratap Singh, at Mumbai.15.05.09
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
about the author of the plebeians who would be kings
About the author of the book: the plebeians who would be kings.
Born in the house of Sees Chand, at the time when Adolf Hitler was occupying Gdansk in Poland and the Indian Empire of the British was about to disintegrate and the Congress Party of India was on the ascendancy , about to win freedom for the country , Gandhi had already acquired the stature of a deity and everyone had a Congress revolutionary in the family , his own father being arrested for burning the Kaiser Hind aerodrome, built on his own mangroves and land, training young American fliers for the war, his one uncle being arrested for Congress agitations and activities in and around Azamgarh ,and a brother-in-law for refusing to pay in the War-fund kitty of the ruling British class ,and mother’s maternal-uncle for Quit-India movement in Varanasi. The name of his first cousin changed from Bhagat Singh to Virendra Pratap. Born to the rural middle-class affluence ,acquired over regular tilling of soil for frugal subsistence over five hundred years and twenty-two generations of the men of grit and resolve to have claimed their entire possession as “independent land-owners ”,recognizing none as their over-lords or even as sovereigns since their migration from Ayodhya in or around 1194 AD, till 1793.
The most amazing factor of his life is to have been born in the same family, where the Bhrigu-sanhita- mentioned Mahayogi Bharat Singh presided, as the 110 years old sage till 6th of December 1944.However that saw the end of the golden-era of the 1st House of Katehar and by 28.06.1952,three days prior to Zamindari-abolition in United-Provinces or Uttar Pradesh and every thing seem to have evaporated in the thin air over-night. He was but an impressionable young lad of twelve .The Sees Chand Mansion was totally deserted and forlorn ,people took away any thing and every thing they could lay their hands on, there was no one to stop them. By and by the heavy teek doors and almirahs were unhinged and removed after a roomful of teek-slabs had been gradually removed from the house. Huge wooden boxes were shifted away. One such box carried the 1st House genealogical table, which took people by surprise as it was not decipherable. So the word went around of such a find, which was handed-over to him by a stroke of good luck and people’s well-wishes for the family after the return of the prodigal son.
The riddle of the large sheet of high-class Italian art paper supported by cotton-mesh at the back took much of the time and curiosity of the author till a clerk in the Varanasi courts solved it in a couple of Sundays riddle-solving session. This was like a Pandora’s box and a thrilling mystery-book which set the tone of the book to be written by him. The author by now had concluded his ten-year long sea-career and got around to Indian Council of Historical Research and read four papers, mainly based on the knowledge gained from his abovementioned Pandora’s box, aided by the tales of the family bard since shifting from Ayodhya in around 1194AD.
However, the urge to complete the history of migration from Ayodhya to Varanasi and Jaunpur was nipped in the bud, by the horrendous deeds of the river Gomti in 1979 and 1980,on 7th of September, when the author’s village lost 626.04acres of riverine land in one big shifting to south- detour of the river. This and the head of the 1st House of Katehar,Rai Saheb Thakur Ram Rup Singh kept the author busy, from dawn to past midnight(preparing notes to face from the smallest to the highest revenue officials of the State, legally and morally and desperately to claim what was theirs) for next ten years, till the time the author’s spouse rebelled(owing to the needs of the growing family and the prime source of livelihood having gone on the other side of river Gomti) and she very forcefully and resolutely, packed the author, once more , back to sea.
With good sea-wages the priorities changed overnight with improved living conditions and a certain amount of both sloth and indolence setting –in , however starting work on a new mansion in the city(dedicated to the memories of the survival in his last residence: the glorious Sees Chand Mansion in the village, since 1485 till 28.06.1952,by his ancestor Rai Chan Singhjudeo to his own father Babu Rishabh Deo Singhji-aptly calling it the R.M..House) being erected on the insistence of the spouse, and the historicity in mind in altogether a different prospective, the relegated back-ground bringing-out in the open and to city-lights
However the relegated realization of the over-bearing importance of the edifice still holding-on it’s own and standing-by as a reminder of the past history dawned-upon once more, on the occasion of the last rites of the author’s mother in 2005.It came like an awakening of dulled senses and it seemed to the author that he was born only for the purpose of recording the art of survival and passing their time, incognito, also for the sake of survival of the Raghuvanshies migrated from Ayodhya in the thick forests of Katehar,particularly and to hand -over the knowledge to the new generations, of today, for inculcating a sense of pride and humility ,so as not to forget that the Raghuvanshies are born to help the humanity,even today,i.e.in the Kaliyuga.
It is a different matter that in a book-form,it would throw light on many things, unrecorded hitherto by the historians,like the Raghuvanshies of Katehar holding parganas of Katehar,Sultanipur,Barah,Mahaich and Narwan in Varanasi(plus Chandauli,now) as independent land-owners for nearly six hundred years, so much so that historians refer to them as Hindu Kings,after the fall of the Gaharwars.And that from Ghiasuddin Tughlaq in 1321 to Sikander Lodi to Sher Shah Suri in 1545 could’nt object to their style of functioning(mainly of not paying any revenue cess) or do any thing about their haughty arrogance.
The author took to solitary living in his Mumbai-flat to translate the greatest Sanskrit poet Kaldas’s description of his famous ancestor Raghu,the first ever world-conqueror,as in his quest for realization of his dream to write a Magnum Opus on Ayodhya’s glory from seven millennium BC to 1194AD,when the Raghuvanshies ,more or less,fled from there,or were removed by their benefactor Jai Chand,the then the sovereign of Ayodhya,as well as of Kashi(Varanasi) and Kannauj,as well,of course.That task will take him to Kolkata’s Central Library,in the near future.
The Permanent Settlement of Lord Cornwallis and Jonathan Duncan has found a detailed description owing to his proximity with an authority on revenue matters and an advisor to many ministers in the government of the State, and the author’s own uncle, guiding him and tutoring him, like a stern head-master for days, before sending him to argue-out his case, and of the village, of course, from deputy secretary upto the Secretary ,himself and insisted on getting an order for the same, or else to stay-on in Lucknow,till a copy of the order was in his hands. The officials argued, relentlessly, but obliged most graciously ,after being convinced of the author’s arguments.
That may have made him very stubborn, in defence of his own arguments.
A Hall of Fame of the Raghuvanshies of Katehar is his latest fad,other than a Hall of Fame of the First House of Katehar ,and now he is stationed in Mumbai to go back to sea ,to earn for the same purpose but his detractors are up in arms against him and are throwing their spanners in the works all the time.But he is pressing -on regardlesly and resolutely as in the days when he was facing a battery of revenue officials from the Secretariat to the Board of
Revenue as well as locally, from the Divisional Commissioner to the Qanungo.
So before the book goes to print,dear readers of his blog(just search for Raghuvanshies on google blog search and you will get two on the subject)do read his blog and help him do, what he is trying to do ,for you.
Born in the house of Sees Chand, at the time when Adolf Hitler was occupying Gdansk in Poland and the Indian Empire of the British was about to disintegrate and the Congress Party of India was on the ascendancy , about to win freedom for the country , Gandhi had already acquired the stature of a deity and everyone had a Congress revolutionary in the family , his own father being arrested for burning the Kaiser Hind aerodrome, built on his own mangroves and land, training young American fliers for the war, his one uncle being arrested for Congress agitations and activities in and around Azamgarh ,and a brother-in-law for refusing to pay in the War-fund kitty of the ruling British class ,and mother’s maternal-uncle for Quit-India movement in Varanasi. The name of his first cousin changed from Bhagat Singh to Virendra Pratap. Born to the rural middle-class affluence ,acquired over regular tilling of soil for frugal subsistence over five hundred years and twenty-two generations of the men of grit and resolve to have claimed their entire possession as “independent land-owners ”,recognizing none as their over-lords or even as sovereigns since their migration from Ayodhya in or around 1194 AD, till 1793.
The most amazing factor of his life is to have been born in the same family, where the Bhrigu-sanhita- mentioned Mahayogi Bharat Singh presided, as the 110 years old sage till 6th of December 1944.However that saw the end of the golden-era of the 1st House of Katehar and by 28.06.1952,three days prior to Zamindari-abolition in United-Provinces or Uttar Pradesh and every thing seem to have evaporated in the thin air over-night. He was but an impressionable young lad of twelve .The Sees Chand Mansion was totally deserted and forlorn ,people took away any thing and every thing they could lay their hands on, there was no one to stop them. By and by the heavy teek doors and almirahs were unhinged and removed after a roomful of teek-slabs had been gradually removed from the house. Huge wooden boxes were shifted away. One such box carried the 1st House genealogical table, which took people by surprise as it was not decipherable. So the word went around of such a find, which was handed-over to him by a stroke of good luck and people’s well-wishes for the family after the return of the prodigal son.
The riddle of the large sheet of high-class Italian art paper supported by cotton-mesh at the back took much of the time and curiosity of the author till a clerk in the Varanasi courts solved it in a couple of Sundays riddle-solving session. This was like a Pandora’s box and a thrilling mystery-book which set the tone of the book to be written by him. The author by now had concluded his ten-year long sea-career and got around to Indian Council of Historical Research and read four papers, mainly based on the knowledge gained from his abovementioned Pandora’s box, aided by the tales of the family bard since shifting from Ayodhya in around 1194AD.
However, the urge to complete the history of migration from Ayodhya to Varanasi and Jaunpur was nipped in the bud, by the horrendous deeds of the river Gomti in 1979 and 1980,on 7th of September, when the author’s village lost 626.04acres of riverine land in one big shifting to south- detour of the river. This and the head of the 1st House of Katehar,Rai Saheb Thakur Ram Rup Singh kept the author busy, from dawn to past midnight(preparing notes to face from the smallest to the highest revenue officials of the State, legally and morally and desperately to claim what was theirs) for next ten years, till the time the author’s spouse rebelled(owing to the needs of the growing family and the prime source of livelihood having gone on the other side of river Gomti) and she very forcefully and resolutely, packed the author, once more , back to sea.
With good sea-wages the priorities changed overnight with improved living conditions and a certain amount of both sloth and indolence setting –in , however starting work on a new mansion in the city(dedicated to the memories of the survival in his last residence: the glorious Sees Chand Mansion in the village, since 1485 till 28.06.1952,by his ancestor Rai Chan Singhjudeo to his own father Babu Rishabh Deo Singhji-aptly calling it the R.M..House) being erected on the insistence of the spouse, and the historicity in mind in altogether a different prospective, the relegated back-ground bringing-out in the open and to city-lights
However the relegated realization of the over-bearing importance of the edifice still holding-on it’s own and standing-by as a reminder of the past history dawned-upon once more, on the occasion of the last rites of the author’s mother in 2005.It came like an awakening of dulled senses and it seemed to the author that he was born only for the purpose of recording the art of survival and passing their time, incognito, also for the sake of survival of the Raghuvanshies migrated from Ayodhya in the thick forests of Katehar,particularly and to hand -over the knowledge to the new generations, of today, for inculcating a sense of pride and humility ,so as not to forget that the Raghuvanshies are born to help the humanity,even today,i.e.in the Kaliyuga.
It is a different matter that in a book-form,it would throw light on many things, unrecorded hitherto by the historians,like the Raghuvanshies of Katehar holding parganas of Katehar,Sultanipur,Barah,Mahaich and Narwan in Varanasi(plus Chandauli,now) as independent land-owners for nearly six hundred years, so much so that historians refer to them as Hindu Kings,after the fall of the Gaharwars.And that from Ghiasuddin Tughlaq in 1321 to Sikander Lodi to Sher Shah Suri in 1545 could’nt object to their style of functioning(mainly of not paying any revenue cess) or do any thing about their haughty arrogance.
The author took to solitary living in his Mumbai-flat to translate the greatest Sanskrit poet Kaldas’s description of his famous ancestor Raghu,the first ever world-conqueror,as in his quest for realization of his dream to write a Magnum Opus on Ayodhya’s glory from seven millennium BC to 1194AD,when the Raghuvanshies ,more or less,fled from there,or were removed by their benefactor Jai Chand,the then the sovereign of Ayodhya,as well as of Kashi(Varanasi) and Kannauj,as well,of course.That task will take him to Kolkata’s Central Library,in the near future.
The Permanent Settlement of Lord Cornwallis and Jonathan Duncan has found a detailed description owing to his proximity with an authority on revenue matters and an advisor to many ministers in the government of the State, and the author’s own uncle, guiding him and tutoring him, like a stern head-master for days, before sending him to argue-out his case, and of the village, of course, from deputy secretary upto the Secretary ,himself and insisted on getting an order for the same, or else to stay-on in Lucknow,till a copy of the order was in his hands. The officials argued, relentlessly, but obliged most graciously ,after being convinced of the author’s arguments.
That may have made him very stubborn, in defence of his own arguments.
A Hall of Fame of the Raghuvanshies of Katehar is his latest fad,other than a Hall of Fame of the First House of Katehar ,and now he is stationed in Mumbai to go back to sea ,to earn for the same purpose but his detractors are up in arms against him and are throwing their spanners in the works all the time.But he is pressing -on regardlesly and resolutely as in the days when he was facing a battery of revenue officials from the Secretariat to the Board of
Revenue as well as locally, from the Divisional Commissioner to the Qanungo.
So before the book goes to print,dear readers of his blog(just search for Raghuvanshies on google blog search and you will get two on the subject)do read his blog and help him do, what he is trying to do ,for you.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
1857-martyrdom of Jaipal Singh of Katehar
‘Sees Chand Mansion’
1st House of the first family
of Katehar estbd.. 1485 Village & Post : Kaithi (Markandey)
P.S.: Chaubeypur,
Distt. Varanasi. PIN: 221116.
Website- chatting- www.1857-amartyramongpwwbks.com
Dear Reader
We have just celebrated 150 th anniversary of the 1857 uprising against the tyranny of the John Company and its aftermath. While the Mughul empire totally disintegrated, small zamindars evaded annihilation by hiding the existence of the mutineers/ rebellions amongst themselves, in order to survive with the art of living peaceably for the sake of zamindari rights for their children and entry in Civil Services created by British for their grand children, and very wise men also chose to ignore the sacrifice of their grand-fathers, in order to simply survive. It was not virtuous to nurture and cherish the dead, the plebeian riff-raff who were the driving force of the rebellion, as they ignited the fire which engulfed thousands of innocent families. Like the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham, their ideal was security and not liberty. “Wars and best to read of, but peace and calms are better to endure.”
I had read a paper on the topic of one such rebellious Raghuvanshi Rajput of Katehar, by name of Jaipal Singh, in the ICHR meet of 1982 and have requeated for a re-read (although at a short notice )the same in 2006 ICHR-proceedings, on the ground of its topical nature .
2. I have also written to Govt. of India and U.P.C.M. on to take-up the martyrdom, of Jaipal Singh, in 1857/58 mutiny, alongside Kunwar Singh of Aarrah, and facilitate visitors from around the world to come and see the house of Jaipal Singh, for which I am ready to provide all basic amenities as required by Ms. Ambica Soni in her recent reply to a question by Sri Mahendra Mohan of S.P. in Rajya Sabha (with whatever little help, assistance, guidance and recognition from the State Govt. as required by the Center)
3. I am releasing the said paper read by me in 1982 with annexures as proof and the genealogical table of the 1st House of Katehar, to which the said martyr belonged and figures in the table.
1st House of the first family
of Katehar estbd.. 1485 Village & Post : Kaithi (Markandey)
P.S.: Chaubeypur,
Distt. Varanasi. PIN: 221116.
Website- chatting- www.1857-amartyramongpwwbks.com
Dear Reader
We have just celebrated 150 th anniversary of the 1857 uprising against the tyranny of the John Company and its aftermath. While the Mughul empire totally disintegrated, small zamindars evaded annihilation by hiding the existence of the mutineers/ rebellions amongst themselves, in order to survive with the art of living peaceably for the sake of zamindari rights for their children and entry in Civil Services created by British for their grand children, and very wise men also chose to ignore the sacrifice of their grand-fathers, in order to simply survive. It was not virtuous to nurture and cherish the dead, the plebeian riff-raff who were the driving force of the rebellion, as they ignited the fire which engulfed thousands of innocent families. Like the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham, their ideal was security and not liberty. “Wars and best to read of, but peace and calms are better to endure.”
I had read a paper on the topic of one such rebellious Raghuvanshi Rajput of Katehar, by name of Jaipal Singh, in the ICHR meet of 1982 and have requeated for a re-read (although at a short notice )the same in 2006 ICHR-proceedings, on the ground of its topical nature .
2. I have also written to Govt. of India and U.P.C.M. on to take-up the martyrdom, of Jaipal Singh, in 1857/58 mutiny, alongside Kunwar Singh of Aarrah, and facilitate visitors from around the world to come and see the house of Jaipal Singh, for which I am ready to provide all basic amenities as required by Ms. Ambica Soni in her recent reply to a question by Sri Mahendra Mohan of S.P. in Rajya Sabha (with whatever little help, assistance, guidance and recognition from the State Govt. as required by the Center)
3. I am releasing the said paper read by me in 1982 with annexures as proof and the genealogical table of the 1st House of Katehar, to which the said martyr belonged and figures in the table.
4. There are letters of Central Govt. (AST) and State Govt. about the authenticity of the subject matter and my approach to the topic for last 25 years.
PRAYER
One and all is welcome to raise queries on my e. mail identity (spsinghnavy@ hotmail.com and other noted below.) and is also welcome to a visit and a glimpse of the house of martyr Jaipal Singh of 1857 struggle for independence.
Awaiting to hear from you.
Yours truly,
(Suresh Pratap Singh)
R.M.House N.16/132-B, Vinayka, Kamachha,
Varanasi-221010(INDIA)
Cell – 09935398306
Phone: 0542-2361159,022-27745804
And at E-4,6/23 Spaghetti,Sector-15,Kharghar,Navi-Mumbai-410210(Maharashtra
Phone:022-27745804,Mobile:09967496749/O9935398306
e-mail: singhsp65@yahoo.com singh.suresh99@gmail.com / spsinghesq@rediffmail.com
PRAYER
One and all is welcome to raise queries on my e. mail identity (spsinghnavy@ hotmail.com and other noted below.) and is also welcome to a visit and a glimpse of the house of martyr Jaipal Singh of 1857 struggle for independence.
Awaiting to hear from you.
Yours truly,
(Suresh Pratap Singh)
R.M.House N.16/132-B, Vinayka, Kamachha,
Varanasi-221010(INDIA)
Cell – 09935398306
Phone: 0542-2361159,022-27745804
And at E-4,6/23 Spaghetti,Sector-15,Kharghar,Navi-Mumbai-410210(Maharashtra
Phone:022-27745804,Mobile:09967496749/O9935398306
e-mail: singhsp65@yahoo.com singh.suresh99@gmail.com / spsinghesq@rediffmail.com
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