Harnawa
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Harnawa is a village in Parbatsar tehsil of Nagaur district in Rajasthan. As of 2001 census te populatin of village is 6312, out of which 906 are SC people. It is the birth place of Ranabai, known as 'Second Mira of Rajasthan.
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Ranabai (रानाबाई) (1504-1570) was a Jat warrior girl and a Hindu mystical poetess whose compositions are popular throughout Marwar region of Rajasthan, India. She is known as 'Second Mira of Rajasthan". She was a disciple of sant Chatur Das also known as Khojiji. Ranabai composed many poems (padas) in Rajasthani Language. [1]
Jalam Singh, grandfather of Ranabai, had two sons namely, Ramoji (elder) and Ram Gopal (younger). Ram Gopal was married to Gangabai of Garhwal Jat Gotra. He had one son - Buwanji and three daughters namely Dhaanibai, Ranabai and Dhapubai. Thus Ranabai was the daughter of Ram Gopal and his wife Gangabai. [2]
Jalam Singh was grandfather of Ranabai and was a powerful sardar of about twenty villages around Harnawa. He was under Bidiyasar Chaudhary of Khinyala. Jalam Sing used to collect tax (lagan) from farmers and deposited with Chaudhary of Khinyala, who in turn used to send the taxes to Delhi Badshah.[3]
Ranabai's father Ram Gopal, being younger, was not that popular. He was not educated and so was Ranabai.
Birth of Ranabai
Ranabai was born in the family of Chaudhari Jalam Singh of village Harnawa in Parbatsar pargana of Marwar. [4] Jalam Singh was a Hindu Jat chieftain of Ghana gotra. [5] Sagar Mal Sharma in his book 'Rajasthan Ke Sant' has mentioned that her father was Jalam Jat. [6] But as per Dr Pema Ram she was of Dhoon gotra Jat vansha. [7] According to Dr Pema Ram[8] Ranabai was born on vaishakh shukla tritiya somwar samvat 1561 (1504 AD). This is also clear from a doha by Birdhichand, which reads as under in Rajasthani Language:
- पन्द्रह सौ इकसठ प्रकट, आखा तीज त्यौहार
- जहि दिन राना जन्म हो, घर-घर मंगलाचार
According to Dr Pema Ram [9] Ranabai's father was Ram Gopal and Jalam Singh was his grandfather. This is also clear from a doha by Birdhi Chand, which reads as under in Rajasthani Language:
- जाट उजागर धून जंग, नामी जालम जाट ।
- बस्ती रचक ओ दौ विगत, गण हरनावो ग्राम ।।
- जालम सुत रामो सुजन, जा का राम गोपाल ।
- उनका पुत्र भुवन ओरू, बाई बुद्धि विशाल ।। [10]
According to Karnisharan Charan of village Indokli also, as mentioned in 'Bā Rānā Jas Bāīsī' (बा राना जस बाईसी), Ram Gopal was father of Ranabai:
Chandra Prakash Dudi in his book 'Shri Ranabai Itihas' writes that Ranabai's father was Ram Gopal. [12]
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