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मलकीसर (Malkisar) गाँव बीकानेर जिले की लूणकरणसर तहसील में बसा है. जांगल देश का यह एक एतिहासिक गाँव है जिसका सम्बन्ध जाट गणराज्यों के पतन से जुड़ा है. इसका पिन कोड 334604 है.

इतिहास

भाड़ंग चुरू जिले की तारानगर तहसील में चुरू से लगभग 40 मील उत्तर में बसा था. पृथ्वीराज चौहान के बाद अर्थार्त चौहान शक्ति के पतन के बाद भाड़ंग पर किसी समय जाटों का आधिपत्य स्थापित हो गया था. जो 16 वीं शताब्दी में राठोडों के इस भू-भाग में आने तक बना रहा. पहले यहाँ सोहुआ जाटों का अधिकार था और बाद में सारण जाटों ने छीन लिया. जब 16 वीं शताब्दी के पूर्वार्ध में राठोड इस एरिया में आए, उस समय पूला सारण यहाँ का शासक था और उसके अधीन 360 गाँव थे. इसी ने अपने नाम पर पूलासर (तहसील सरदारशहर) बसाया था जिसे बाद में सारण जाटों के पुरोहित पारीक ब्राह्मणों को दे दिया गया. पूला की पत्नी का नाम मलकी था, जिसको लेकर बाद में गोदारा व सारणों के बीच युद्ध हुआ. [1] मलकी के नाम पर ही बीकानेर जिले की लूणकरणसर तहसील में मलकीसर गाँव बसाया गया था.[2]

मलकीसर, पाण्डूसर, नकोदरसर, शेखसर,शेरपुरा और गोपलाणा सभी गाँव बीकानेर जिले की लूणकरणसर तहसील में हैं. पांडू के नाम पर पाण्डूसर, शेरसिंह के नाम पर शेरपुरा और नकोदर के नाम पर नकोदरसर बसाया गया है. [3]

मलकी का मामला और लाघड़िया युद्ध

उस समय पूला सारण भाड़ंग का शासक था और उसके अधीन 360 गाँव थे. पूला की पत्नी का नाम मलकी था जो बेनीवाल जाट सरदार रायसल की पुत्री थी. उधर लाघड़िया में पांडू गोदारा राज करता था. वह बड़ा दातार था. एक बार विक्रम संवत 1544 (वर्ष 1487) के लगभग लाघड़िया के सरदार पांडू गोदारा के यहाँ एक ढाढी गया, जिसकी पांडू ने अच्छी आवभगत की तथा खूब दान दिया. उसके बाद जब वही ढाढी भाड़ंग के सरदार पूला सारण के दरबार में गया तो पूला ने भी अच्छा दान दिया. लेकिन जब पूला अपने महल गया तो उसकी स्त्री मलकी ने व्यंग्य में कहा "चौधरी ढाढी को ऐसा दान देना था जिससे गोदारा सरदार पांडू से भी अधिक तुम्हारा यश होता. [4]इस सम्बन्ध में एक लोक प्रचलित दोहा है -

धजा बाँध बरसे गोदारा, छत भाड़ंग की भीजै ।

ज्यूं-ज्यूं पांडू गोदारा बगसे, पूलो मन में छीज ।।[5]

सरदार पूला मद में छका हुआ था. उसने छड़ी से अपनी पत्नी को पीटते हुए कहा यदि तू पांडू पर रीझी है तो उसी के पास चली जा. पति की इस हरकत से मलकी मन में बड़ी नाराज हुई और उसने चौधरी से बोलना बंद कर दिया. मलकी ने अपने अनुचर के मध्यम से पांडू गोदारा को सारी हकीकत कहलवाई और आग्रह किया कि वह आकर उसे ले जाए. इस प्रकार छः माह बीत गए. एक दिन सब सारण जाट चौधरी और चौधराईन के बीच मेल-मिलाप कराने के लिए इकट्ठे हुए जिस पर गोठ हुई. इधर तो गोठ हो रही थी और उधर पांडू गोदारे का पुत्र नकोदर 150 ऊँट सवारों के साथ भाड़ंग आया और मलकी को गुप्त रूप से ले गया. [6] पांडू वृद्ध हो गया था फ़िर भी उसने मलकी को अपने घर रख लिया. परन्तु नकोदर की माँ, पांडू की पहली पत्नी, से उसकी खटपट हो गयी इसलिए वह गाँव गोपलाणा में जाकर रहने लगी. बाद में उसने अपने नाम पर मलकीसर बसाया. [7]

पूला ने सलाह व सहायता करने के लिए अन्य जाट सरदारों को इकठ्ठा किया. इसमें सीधमुख का कुंवरपाल कसवां, घाणसिया का अमरा सोहुआ, सूई का चोखा सियाग, लूद्दी का कान्हा पूनिया और पूला सारण स्वयं उपस्थित हुए. गोदारा जाटों के राठोड़ों के सहायक हो जाने के कारण उनकी हिम्मत उन पर चढाई करने की नहीं हुई. ऐसी स्थिति में वे सब मिलकर सिवानी के तंवर सरदार नरसिंह जाट के पास गए [8] और नजर भेंट करने का लालच देकर उसे अपनी सहायता के लिए चढा लाए. [9]

तंवर नरसिंह जाट बड़ा वीर था. वह अपनी सेना सहित आया और उसने पांडू के ठिकाने लाघड़िया पर आक्रमण किया. उसके साथ सारण, पूनिया, बेनीवाल, कसवां, सोहुआ और सिहाग सरदार थे. उन्होंने लाघड़िया को जलाकर नष्ट कर दिया. लाघड़िया राजधानी जलने के बाद गोदारों ने अपनी नई राजधानी लूणकरणसर के गाँव शेखसर में बना ली. [10] युद्ध में अनेक गोदारा चौधरी व सैनिक मारे गए, परन्तु पांडू तथा उसका पुत्र नकोदर किसी प्रकार बच निकले. नरसिंह जाट विजय प्राप्त कर वापिस रवाना हो गया. [11]
ढाका का युद्ध (1488) और जाट गणराज्यों का पतन

इधर गोदारों की और से पांडू का बेटा नकोदर राव बीका व कान्धल राठोड़ के पास पुकार लेकर गया जो उस समय सीधमुख को लूटने गए हुए थे. नकोदर ने उनके पास पहुँच कर कहा कि तंवर नरसिह जाट आपके गोदारा जाटों को मारकर निकला जा रहा है. उसने लाघड़िया राजधानी के बरबाद होने की बात कही और रक्षा की प्रार्थना की. इसपर बीका व कान्धल ने सेना सहित आधी रात तक नरसिंह का पीछा किया. नरसिंह उस समय सीधमुख से ६ मील दूर ढाका नमक गाँव में एक तालाब के किनारे अपने आदमियों सहित डेरा डाले सो रहा था. रास्ते में कुछ जाट जो पूला सारण से असंतुष्ट थे, ने कान्धल व बीका से कहा की पूला को हटाकर हमारी इच्छानुसार दूसरा मुखिया बना दे तो हम नरसिंह जाट का स्थान बता देंगे. राव बीका द्वारा उनकी शर्त स्वीकार करने पर उक्त जाट उन्हें सिधमुख से ६ मील दूरी पर उस तालाब के पास ले गए, जहाँ नरसिंह जाट अपने सैनिकों सहित सोया हुआ था.[12] [13]

राव कान्धल ने रात में ही नरसिंह जाट को युद्ध की चुनोती दी. नरसिंह चौंक कर नींद से उठा. उसने तुरंत कान्धल पर वार किया जो खाली गया. कान्धल ने नरसिंह को रोका और और बीका ने उसे मार गिराया. [14] घमासान युद्ध में नरसिंह जाट सहित अन्य जाट सरदारों कि बुरी तरह पराजय हुई. दोनों और के अनेक सैनिक मरे गए. कान्धल ने नरसिह जाट के सहायक किशोर जाट को भी मार गिराया. इस तरह अपने सरदारों के मारे जाने से नरसिह जाट के साथी अन्य जाट सरदार भाग निकले. भागती सेना को राठोड़ों ने खूब लूटा. इस लड़ाई में पराजय होने के बाद इस एरिया के सभी जाट गणराज्यों के मुखियाओं ने बिना आगे युद्ध किए राठोड़ों की अधीनता स्वीकार कर ली और इस तरह अपनी स्वतंत्रता समाप्त करली. फ़िर वहाँ से राव बीका ने सिधमुख में डेरा किया. वहां दासू बेनीवाल राठोड़ बीका के पास आया. सुहरानी खेड़े के सोहर जाट से उसकी शत्रुता थी. दासू ने बीका का आधिपत्य स्वीकार किया और अपने शत्रु को राठोड़ों से मरवा दिया. [15] इस तरह जाटों की आपसी फूट व वैर भाव उनके पतन का कारण बना.[16]
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सन्दर्भ

1. ↑ दयालदास ख्यात, देशदर्पण, पेज 20
2. ↑ Dr Pema Ram, The Jats Vol. 3, ed. Dr Vir Singh,Originals, Delhi, 2007 p. 209
3. ↑ Dr Pema Ram, The Jats Vol. 3, ed. Dr Vir Singh,Originals, Delhi, 2007 p. 213
4. ↑ Dr Pema Ram, The Jats Vol. 3, ed. Dr Vir Singh,Originals, Delhi, 2007 p. 208
5. ↑ Dr Pema Ram, The Jats Vol. 3, ed. Dr Vir Singh,Originals, Delhi, 2007 p. 208
6. ↑ नैणसी की ख्यात, भाग 2, पेज 202
7. ↑ Dr Pema Ram, The Jats Vol. 3, ed. Dr Vir Singh,Originals, Delhi, 2007 p. 209
8. ↑ दयालदास री ख्यात , पेज 9
9. ↑ Dr Pema Ram, The Jats Vol. 3, ed. Dr Vir Singh,Originals, Delhi, 2007 p. 209
10. ↑ डॉ दशरथ शर्मा री ख्यात, अनूप संस्कृत पुस्तकालय, बीकानेर, संवत 2005, पेज 7
11. ↑ Dr Pema Ram, The Jats Vol. 3, ed. Dr Vir Singh,Originals, Delhi, 2007 p. 209
12. ↑ नैणसी की ख्यात, भाग 2, पेज 203
13. ↑ Dr Pema Ram, The Jats Vol. 3, ed. Dr Vir Singh,Originals, Delhi, 2007 p. 209
14. ↑ नैणसी की ख्यात, भाग 2, पेज 203
15. ↑ नैणसी की ख्यात, भाग 2, पेज 203
16. ↑ Dr Pema Ram, The Jats Vol. 3, ed. Dr Vir Singh,Originals, Delhi, 2007 p. 210

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Shekhsar (शेखसर) is a village in Lunkaransar tehsil of Bikaner district in Rajasthan, India. It is situated on the north-east border of the district adjoining Churu and Hanumangarh district boundaries. The village has a population of 5820 out of them are SC 1182 and ST 4.[1]

History

It was the capital of republic of Godara Jats prior to its annexation by Rathores. The Godara chief was Pandu and they had 700 villages under them. Their capital was at Shekhsar. The districts included under Godara rulers were Shekhsar, Pundrasar, Gusainsar Bada, Gharsisir, Garibdesar, Rungaysar, and Kalu. The people of Godara clan were known as great and ambitious warriors.

Thakur Deshraj[2] and James Todd[3] have mentioned the history of this republic. According to them, In samvat 1515 (1459 AD) Joda transferred the seat of government from Mundore to Jodhpur. His son Bika, under the guidance of his uncle Kandul, led three hundred of the sons of Seoji to enlarge the boundaries of Rathore dominion amidst the sands of Maroo. Bika was stimulated to the attempt by the success of his brother Bida, who had recently subjugated the territory inhabited by the Mohils for ages. Bika, with his band of three hundred, fell upon the Sanklas of Jangladesh whom they massacred.

Bika now approximated to the settlements of the Jats, who had for ages been established in these arid abodes; and as the lands they held form a considerable portion of the state of Bikaner.

The Jats and Johiyas of these regions, who extended overall the northern desert even to the Garah, led a pastoral life, their wealth consisting in their cattle, which they reared in great numbers, disposing of the superfluity, and of the ghee and wool, through the medium of Sarasvat Brahmins (who, in these regions, devote themselves to traffic), receiving in return grain and other conveniences or necessaries of life.

Although the success of his brother Bida over the Mohils in some degree paved the way, his bloodless conquest could never have happened but for the opresence of a vice which has dissolved all the republics of the world. The jealousy of the Johiyas and Godaras, the two most powerful of the six Jat cantons, was the immediate motive to the propitiation of the ' son of Joda ' ; besides which, the communities found the band of Bida, which had extirpated the ancient Mohils when living with them in amity, most troublesome neighbours. Further, they were desirous to place between them and the Bhattis of Jaisalmer, a more powerful barrier ; and last, not least, they dreaded the hot valour and "thirst for land" which characterised Bika's retainers, now contiguous to them at Jangladesh. For these weighty reasons, at a meeting of the "ciders" of the Godaras, it was resolved to conciliate the Rathore.

The "elder" of Roneah was next in rank and estimation to Pandu, in communities where equality was as absolute as the proprietary right to the lands which each individually held: that of pasture be common.

The elders of Shekhsar and Roneah were deputed to enter into terms with the Rajput chief, and to invest him with supremacy over the community, on the following conditions :-

(1) To make common cause with them, against the Johiyas and other cantons, with whom they were then at variance.

(2) To guard the western frontier against the irruption of Bhattis.

(3) To hold the rights and privileges of the community inviolable.

On the fulfillment of these conditions, they relinquished to Bika and his descendants the supreme power over the Godaras; assigning to him, in perpetuity, the power to levy "dhooa", or a "hearth tax" of one rupee on each house in the canton, and a land tax of two rupees on each hundred beeghas of cultivated land within their limits.

Apprehensive, however, that Bika or his descendants might encroach upon their rights, they asked what security he could offer against such a contingency ? The Rajput chief replied that, in order to dissipate their fears on this head, as well as to perpetuate the remertlbrance of the supremacy thus voluntarily conferred, he would solemnly bind himself and his successors to receive the tika of inauguration from the hands of the descendants of the elders of Shekhsar and Roneah, and that the gadi (the chair) should be deemed vacant until such rite was administered.

To this day, the descendant of Pandu applies the unguent of royalty to the forehead of the successors of Bika ; on which occasion, the prince places "the fine of relief", consisting of twenty-five pieces of gold, in the hand of the Godara Jat.

Moreover, the spot which he selected for his capital, was the birthright of a Nehra Jat who would only concede it for this purpose on the condition that his name should be linked in perpetuity with its surrender. Nehra was the name of the proprietor, which Bika added to his own, thus composing that of the future capital, Bikaner.

Jat gotras in the village

It is the main village of Godara Jats. Other Jat gotras in the village are Dhatarwal, Kukana, Kulhari, Kajla etc.

References

1. ↑ Delimitation Commission Report Bikaner
2. ↑ Thakur Deshraj: Jat Itihasa (Hindi), Maharaja Suraj Mal Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi, 1934, 2nd edition 1992, pp.621-623
3. ↑ James Todd, Annals and Antiquities

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Khatkar Kalan or Khatkarkalan (खटकरकलां) is a village in Nawanshahr district, earlier Jalandhar district in Punjab. The name indicates it was founded by Khatkar gotra Jats. Its PIN Code is 126115. The ancestral home of Shaheed Bhagat Singh at Khatkar Kalan has been declared as protected monument by the Government of India. [1]

History

KHATKAR KALAN is a historical village which has got the honour of being the village of the famous patriots and freedom fighters like Sardar Kishan Singh, Sardar Ajit Singh, Sardar Swaran Singh, Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh.


In the memories of Sardar Ajit Singh, when he came home after imprisonment of 40 years, are reproduced here as he expressed them in his writing. "My Village Khatkar Kalan comes under station Banga. This village is well known because of its special features."

"This place was known as a fortress. It was related with a feudal chief. There were other fortresses attached to it but they were small as compared to it. That's why they were known as Garh Khurd. My birth place was known as Garh Kalan." [2]


"One of my forefathers started from his village "Narli" in Lahore District during Mughal period to go to "Haridwar". His purpose to go there because he was to throw the ashes of someone from his family member in river "Ganga". The journey was long. In his way he took shelter in a fortress. The owner of the fortress was a kind hearted person. He welcomed that stranger. He was a young person. He also invited him to have meals with him and his family. The owner had a wife and a beautiful daughter. When they were eating food the young man and the daughter of the owner of the fortress got attracted towards each other. The girl expressed her desire to marry the man. Her parent had also selected the person as their would be Son-In-Law. Next morning when the young man was about to go the owner asked him if he was married. The young man said to him "Not yet.". At this the owner of the fortress invited him to be his guest for the second time. He bade Good Bye to them and started his journey again.

After throwing the ashes in Ganga the young man came back to that fortress so that he could marry the girl. The fortress was already decorated by the owner of it and they were waiting for the young man to come. They wanted to give the fortress as a marriage gift to their Son-In-Law. The young man and the daughter of the owner of the fortress got married and the fortress was given to them. After their marriage this place was called Khatkar Kalan. The owner and his wife started living in that fortress as the guest of their Son-In-law.

Thus from their couple started one family. Time changed and the walls for the fortress fell down. During rainy season the deep dug places around the fortress changed into pools. Today people have great benefits of these pools and they use these pools for bathing and other places."[3]

Birth centenary of Bhagat Singh

Khatkar Kalan, a village on the Chandigarh-Jalandhar highway in Punjab's Doaba region, today typifies development not because of affluent NRIs but because it is the birth place of Shaheed Bhagat Singh and 2007 happens to be the hundredth year of his birth. Centre has sanctioned a grant of Rs 1 crore for the maintenance of Singh's 150-year-old ancestral house and beautification of the surrounding area, the state Government has given an equal amount for other development works in the village. A library has been built at the village square and also a 200-kW solar power plant to meet the growing demands of energy in the village. Even though Khatkar Kalan boasts of four government-run schools, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal recently laid the foundation stone for another Adarsh School to provide quality education to the poor and the needy. To attract tourists, a Rs 52-lakh fast food complex is under construction near Shaheed Bhagat Singh Museum.[4]

Notable persons from Khatkar Kalan

* Sardar Bhagat Singh, who was born into a Sandhu family On September 28, 1907, to Sardar Kishan Singh Sandhu and Vidyavati in the Khatkar Kalan village near Banga. [5][6][7] of Punjab. Singh's given name of Bhagat meant "devotee". His family background was that of a patriotic Sikh family which had participated in numerous movements supporting independence of India.[8] His father was influenced by the Hindu reformist Arya Samaj. His uncles, Sardar Ajit Singh and Swaran Singh, as well as his father were both part of the Ghadr Party led by Kartar Singh Sarabha. Ajit Singh was forced to flee to Iran because of pending cases against him while Swaran Singh was hanged.[9][8]

* Sardar Kishan Singh

* Sardar Ajit Singh

* Sardar Swaran Singh

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