Phele Aaajadi Ki Laadai! A full 150 years!!!...

[dahiyars]

Dear All

The First War of Independence was started on 10 May 150 years ago. In Memory of Those who sacrificed their life for our country few lines.

This great anti-imperialist uprising 150 years ago, holds contemporary lessons for every patriotic Indian today. In the course of the last fifteen years, we see once more the attempt to colonise our lands in the era of neo-imperialism, and this attempt has already succeeded to quite an extent owing to the failure of large sections of our intellectuals and political leaders to understand and apply the lessons of history, and therefore their failure to protest effectively. Once more deflationary fiscal policies are being systematically followed, by our own government this time, which leads to unemployment and contraction of aggregate demand, and once more our lands are opened up to the pull of international demands. Our cropping patterns have shifted to export crops, domestic foodgrains output per head of population has declined alarmingly, and on average the rural family today is absorbing at least 115 kg. per annum less of foodgrains than in 1998, reflected in data on falling energy intake despite asset loss and rising landlessness.

There is in the last five years, absolute stagnation of grain output even as the new types of primary exports to stock advanced country supermarkets, are booming. The depth of rural hunger is increasing, large segments of the peasantry is getting hopelessly indebted and immiserized, and in desperation in many areas it has been turning its agony upon itself in thousands of suicides. The agony has to turn to anger and be directed against imperialism in all its manifestations including the intellectual hegemony it is re-asserting in the guise of false and self-serving theories of development and blatantly false official claims of decline in rural poverty. It is ironic indeed that this sixtieth anniversary of Independence sees a substantial economic re-colonisation of our agriculture, and that too few voices are being raised against the betrayal of our peasantry by our own increasingly collaborating ruling classes. A new process of peasant resistance all over the country has begun: it will be instructive to see the course of its future development. Let us not celebrate the Great Rebellion of 1857 in a ritualistic manner, but draw the right lessons from it so that we do not, simply through a lack of understanding, betray the memory of the millions of peasants and workers who died under colonial misrule, and the memory of the many thousands of patriots who gave their lives in the 1857 rebellion and in the nearly hundred years of the struggle against imperialism and for freedom, which followed it.
Please Comment
R.S.Dahiya

[shailendra]

...Yes, all of you fans of The first Indian Sepoy Mutiny (as is STILL popularly referred to as by the Britishers and from their archives) and of Mangal Pandey and party; the year 2007 marks a glorious 150 years! This coming day of May 11 (day after tomorrow) in 1857 was when there was a major uprising against the British that swooped up the whole subcontinent nation into frenzy!

The main point of this post was to simply remind everyone of the momentous occasion (the jury is still out whether it was the first independence ki ladaai, or simply some rabbles stirring up trouble over a ‘kartoos’ incident!)

Either way, the fact has been very aptly chronicled by William Dalrymple, an American (go figure) award-winning travel writer and historian/author in his book called,”The last Mughal: the fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857."

I recently grabbed my copy at Barnes and Nobles the other day, and would recommend it to all History buffs. Not because it is some narrative that tries to decipher or go behind the scenes of what the possible reasons might have been….but because it is a painstakingly done chronicle and direct presentation of some rare and classified Mutiny papers, recently discovered that uniquely quantify actual (sometimes unrelated) events and incidents that happened at that bizarre time!
…of course supplemented with great black and white rare pictures (I have attached a few here for your purposes. Tow or three in there are actual photographs!)…it makes up for some great reading! The book is stirring account of the history. It is so colorful and moving that it almost reads like a novel…

Anyways; coming back to the main post- and these pictures may jar you a mite….what a completely unpredictable time it must have been, eh?
Oh sure, we all know about the story of how an English trading company turned into an imperial machine.
But the real fact is that it also became a time of huge religious corruption and bigotry, not to forget in a hurry- a time of horrifying attempts to redeem honor, prestige and power through sheer violence!
History provides ample proof that both the Indians/Muslims and the British did not come out in a very respectable light in those happenings and aftermaths of the 1857 uprising!

First, the Hindus and Muslims soldier/deserters and the other regular rabble, with their barbaric execution of all Christians (read even the local converts) including British women and children…and then the British themselves with even worse display of barbarism and revenge annihilating complete villages and lynching of any of the Indian soldier deserters they got their hands on anywhere!
(Apparently the Sikh regiments of East India Company helped along that process)

…and then the role of the poor puppet emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar (the book is primarily written with him and his role in the whole sorry affair in mind actually) as the unwitting leader for the uprising all makes up for an awesome reading those some very tumultuous times! [and to imagine, his dead body wrapped as a shrouded corpse, this last great Mughal emperor and descendant of Akbar, Ghenghis Khan and Temur, was escorted and buried anonymously by just some unknown group of British soldiers in an unmarked grave in a prison enclosure in Rangoon in 1862…]
One also realizes that there was an important class factor in the whole uprising that not many people want to acknowledge (or even know about for that matter).
You see nationalist historians will talk about the greatness of people like Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi and her opposition to the British etc, but the fact is that much of the uprising was centered in and around Delhi at the start and, from the morning of May 11 onwards, the largest number of rebels that joined into the uprising were just lower middle-class workers, not some glorified fighters.

Anyways people... here's wishing you a great 150th anniversary of our first battle of independence!!!

[shailendra]

Oops Sorry Ranbir, I posted my thread and immediately saw this one on pretty much the same topic, albeit with a different premise! (and it seems like you must have posted yours almost simultaneously!)... :D

Anyways, if only I had seen it a bit earlier maybe we could have supplemented our resouces onto the same thread! Ah well... it happens! Wouldn't be the first time an interesting subject being treated in two or three seperate threads at the same time on Jatland!...

Now let's hope there are others that are as excited as us about the occasion (and like you say; the parallels that we could learn from it!)

[sktewatia]

mera bapu bolle tha ukk vaa badshah ke ird gird rhahya karta. jab angrezan nne bahadurshah ka ghera dala tha tte mharre nahar singh angrezan ka ghera dala tha. And the britishers were forced to lift their ghera. pher bhai unne nu sochi ukk bhalle hi is dilli ke badshah ko to chhod do per is nahar nne hum kitti konna chhoden. tte bhai vaaee tte us ki kurbani sse, chandni chowk me ghanta ghar pe, phuhara ppe.

rre bhai UP mme tte rolla machan laag raya sse. Va meerut tte llall quilla ppe isshe chadhe jaon sse, jaise haryana ka tte koi yogdan hi koyna. Tumm bhi bhai thodi padyatra vagairah kar lyo!

bhai, aap ka raj sse, hum tte aap ke paachhe ssen.

[ranjitjat]

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/200...1857/main2.htm

A HISTORICAL TRIBUTE TO THE MARTYRS AND FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF
1857 FRIST WAR OF INDIA INDEPENDENCE

ON 150TH ANNIVERSARY

TO ALL ALL KNOWN & UNKNOWN NATIONAL HEROES AND FREEDOM FIGHTERS


The Rising

Largely Hindu regiments elected Muslims as their officers, and vice versa. One finds it difficult to agree with Nehru’s judgement that 1857 was essentially a “feudal outburst”, says noted historian Irfan Habib


Bahadur Shah Zafar


Until the rebelling sepoys from Meerut crossed the Yamuna river early in the morning of 11 May 1857, what had happened to disturb the equanimity of Lord Canning and his advisers was only a series of incidents of unrest within the Bengal Army on the issue of greased cartridges from February onwards at Berhampur, Barrackpur, and Lucknow — all the "mutinies" having been suppressed, with humiliations, punishments and disbandment of the affected units.

What made Meerut the turning point was that the sepoys’ mutiny here on 9 May could not be put down and the rebelling men, braving all threats, freed their comrades and marched and seized Delhi. That one action suddenly opened the floodgates, bringing about a general uprising of the Bengal Army, and then a popular rebellion over so large a part of Northern India, that two such different contemporary observers as Disraeli and Marx could immediately characterise it as a "national revolt".

In some recent writing, there is a tendency, seemingly out of protest against the use of the term "Mutiny", to belittle the role of the Bengal Army. This is surely an error. The Bengal Army sepoys not only began the rebellion, they remained its major fighting force to the end.

On the eve of the "rising", it was the largest modern army east of Suez. Estimates of its size at the time vary, but there were probably no less than 128,000 "native" sepoys of whom only a little above 8,000 remained loyal to the English. The revolting sepoys, by their training and discipline, and knowledge of modern methods of military organisation, continued to be not only the most steadfast in the cause, but its most crucial instrument.

Exceptional was the spirit of solidarity among the sepoys, where the very large number of caste-conscious Brahmans in the infantry did not affect the bonds of mutual loyalty tying them to their Shaikh, Pathan and Rajput brethren along with whom they had shed their blood for the English for so long. It was characteristic that when they revolted, they elected their officers, from amongst themselves, giving themselves the military titles in vogue in the British Army: majors, colonels and generals. They also formed "councils" — and at Delhi even a Court of Administration — to take decisions in a democratic manner.

It was noticed that largely Hindu regiments elected Muslims as their officers, and vice versa. With such a key component within the rebellion, one finds it difficult to agree with Jawaharlal Nehru’s judgement that 1857 was essentially a "feudal outburst", a "feudal rising." (These statements occur in the Discovery of India, which otherwise is heavily condemnatory of the mass killings by the British in suppressing the rebellion.)

Nor can the word "feudal" really apply to many who supported the sepoys once they broke into Delhi and rose in rebellion elsewhere. Clearly, as we know from all accounts, the Mughal king Bahadur Shah "Zafar" and his retinue were reluctant and apprehensive. On the other hand, as the detailed narrative of the Sepoys’ takeover of Delhi in the Dehli Urdu Akhbar (weekly) of 17 May, shows large numbers of ordinary people in Delhi cooperated with the "Telingas", the common name for infantry sepoys).

Among persons who were especially active the rebel sepoys were men from artisan classes. According to an eyewitness description (by Syed Ahmad Khan) of the forces of the local rebel leader of Bijnor, Mahmud Khan, these troops included, besides gun-wielding Pathans, some 40 sepoys, headed by one Ram Sarup, all excellent soldiers; but for the rest, "they were just cotton-carders and weavers, who had handled yarn, but never a sword." The official ethnologist William Crooke was to recall later that weavers played a fanatical role in the revolt in 1857. It must be remembered that this was the time when the mass of town weavers were being deprived of their employment by competition from Lancashire.

Another important class in the town was that of the educated. An impression prevails that modern means of knowledge had no or little influence yet on the educated urban population of the Hindustani-speaking area. This impression is not at all borne out by the weekly printed journals like the Delhi Urdu Akhbar from Delhi or Tilism from Lucknow. Indeed, it was among such educated strata that the grievance at exclusion from administrative employment and, indeed, state patronage was very greatly felt.

There were others who joined the revolt, both Hindus and Muslims, under the slogan of defence of dharm and deen. The Delhi Urdu Akhbar used both these words and in emotional editorials called upon Hindus and Muslims to fight together, for they shared a common belief in One God, using the term Adi Purush and had nothing in common with their enemy, the English, who believed in Trinity and had nothing in common with them. Even far more theologically inclined, like the followers of the sufic rebel leader Ahmadullah Shah, took a similar position in the well-known rebel tract Risala Fateh Islam.

The “Wahabis”, whose position was usually less tractable, have been needlessly given a larger-than-life role in the rebellion, by the assumption that the word “mujahid” or “jihadi” implies a Wahabi. These words, in the 1857 usage, merely implied a Muslim volunteer who joined the fight, though not a professional soldier or sepoy. The famous Delhi commander Bakht Khan had been quite wrongly given the tag of a Wahabi. His own position is made clear in a proclamation of his (dated 30 July) in which he not only threatens to punish anyone who would engage in cow-slaughter but also condemns the “mujahids” for occupying the Jama Masjid and spoiling it by their dirtiness (najasat).

The towns were important; but the countryside was vital for sustaining the rebellion. There were many reasons why both the upper rural classes (zamindars and taluqdars) and the peasants be aggrieved at British rule in the main area of the rebellion. The Mahalwari system of land-revenue imposed on the present territory of U.P. was perhaps the most heavy of all revenue systems in India and, after the Annexation (1856), this system was now being sought to be extended to Oudh, whose taluqdars had been treated much more leniently by the deposed dynasty of Oudh. Older conditions still prevailed to the extent that the leading zamindars (“chaudhuris”) could call peasants, especially of their own castes to serve them.

In their case, the capacity to combine with the rebelling sepoy regiments was remarkable.

As for peasants’ participation on their own, it is much to Eric Stokes’ credit that he has treated this phenomenon in great detail, he quotes the general statement of Mark Thornhill, made in November 1858 from his own observations that, “unlike the large proprietors”, “the agricultural labouring class” had in 1857 proved to be “the most hostile” to the continuance of British rule.

Peasants, being illiterate, unluckily did not leave any record of their ideas and aspirations behind. Readers of the memoirs of Zahir Dehlawi may, however, recall how, when fleeing from Delhi, he obtained the assistance of a hardy village headman, who, though hostile to the rebel leader Khan Bahadur Khan, yet gave the fugitives food and help, upon being told that they were being pursued by the English.

The ruling houses who had suffered from deposition, annexation or reduction in status had reasons enough to join the revolt, once the sepoys rose. Their entourages and retainers were not only bound to them by ties of loyalty but also by hopes of restoration. Bahadur Shah Zafar, Nana Sahib, Hazarat Mahal and Rani Lakshmi Bai all could be assigned personal or dynastic motivations for their joining the revolt initially. But the very fact of resistance in course of time imposed on them the demands of a larger loyalty.

This change was well put by Rani Lakshmi Bai in her words to Vishnubhat Godse, the Maratha Brahman pilgrim, as she passed by him, “dressed as a Pathan”, after the English storming of Jhansi. I have given up, she said, her “common widow’s dharma” in order to take up the cause of “the honour of Hindu dharma.” Not a dynastic cause any longer, but the defence of the faith — “the faith” given a much larger meaning, as with the 1857 rebels generally, than their own religion: it was the defence of a whole way of life.

The Oudh rebels’ reply to Queen Victoria’s Proclamation of November 1858, in the name of Hazrat Mahal’s son, Birjis Qadr, speaks not of the grievances of the dynasty of Oudh, but of the whole of India, enumerating the territories seized by the English from Indian rulers. It speaks of “the Army and People of Hindustan”, and ends by declaring that the English can see no better work for Indians than just labouring on roads and digging canals. A national sentiment is clearly palpable here.

[ranjitjat]

Tribute to 1857 Freedom Fighters & Martyrs on 150th Avviversary



Dear Dr Tewatia & all
Thank you for your tribute.
Nice photoes.Cartoon & images
please join me in Sardhanjali to all known-unknown
heroes-Freedomgighters and Shaheed.



10 MAY 1857-Tribute to freedom fighters
on 150th ANNIVERSERY OF SHAHEED DEVAS

Tribute to 1857 Freedom Fighters & Martyrs

Vahut kurwani sy bharat mata ny azadi paye
Nahar singh sy Veero ny Gardan bali chdhaye

Mangal pande nam tao bas bana ak chingari
Lakho Jat surveero ny Meerut mae bhari kilkari

Meerut sy chal kar Delhi Lalkile per Jhanda lahraya
Bhadurshah Jafar ko fir sy bharat Ka Badsah banaya

Dada sahmal ny bhi panchayati farman sunaya
Bijrola ky jungle mae Fauji karantikari dal Banaya

Ak agyat sadhu ny Roti ko Azadi ka partik banaya
Swami Dayanand ji ny bhi soya bharat desh jagaya

Rao Tularam ny Rewari mae Yudh ka bigul Bajaya
BalbhGrah-Badli ko Chhapamaro ka kendar banaya

Rewari sy nikal Rao MahenderGarh ky Kile mae aaya
Nasibpur ky madan ko Shaheedo ky khon sy Lal banaya

Ambala- Karnal-Panipat- sonipat GT ROAD per tufan aaya
Jhajjar-Dadri-Maham-Rotak mae Houdson horse lae aaya

CH Badluram ky parivar Livaspur Gaon ko tree per latkaya
Saravkhap Haryana ko tod kar Gadaro ka Gulam Banaya

Hansi aur Hisar mae Skiner horse ny janta per Kahar dhaya
Hansi ki Red Road bana shaheedo per Girdi- Roller chalaya

Rohnat jase gaon ko Top- Gun sy udakar shaheed banaya
52000 Acre Jamin ko sare aam 11000 rs mae Nilam karaya

Dharmpal Dudee ny 1857 ky Saheedo ka Itihash Banaya
Saravkhap Martyrs book ka Vimochan London mae karaya

[sktewatia]

bado llall khillarr ho chhora!!!!!! at 33 he was hanged. Pratham meaningful shaheed of Pratham Swadhinta Sangram. Followed by Bhagat later, nahar was.

[shailendra]

...Hmmm, seems like the two posts have been collapsed together by the administrators; so anyways continuing to add to the mystery, romance and bizzareness of those times I am adding a couple of posts more here with some rare photographs from the British archives (I was able to access them from the BBC website)…
But those times so fascinate me that I would like to hopefully create the same inquisitiveness in your minds about the era, the ambiance and style, somehow by sharing these rare footages…

So here goes with the first one,

This photograph depicts the cantonment area in Kanpur (of General Wheeler’s) where up to 1,000 British troops, their families (women and children) and handful of the ‘still’ loyal Indian sepoys, stayed holed up (you can see the 'bombed' entrenchments photographed below) for almost three weeks in the June of 1857 where they were constantly bombarded by Nana Sahib's army, who was the local prince of the region and fighting and participating in the uprising with rebel soldiers and the support of his own army against these British garrisons.

[shailendra]

The Sati Chaura Ghat in Kanpur
This picture is somewhat related to the one before and is the scene of the now ‘in’famous massacre incident of 27th of June, 1857!
Now this was the point where all the Europeans [that had been earlier entrenched and fighting for their survival in General Wheeler’s cantonment] after asking for truce; had been promised safe passage on a ferry boat to the safety of the British lines.

Now History has it that when they arrived at this Sati Chaura Ghat (jetty) and boarded to take the boat out ...that they were ambushed by Nana Sahib's army and other rebels and many were killed on this same spot.
[Archives go on to mention that the survivors after this incident, and which were mostly women and children were also later mercilessly executed!]

ps. BTW as a side note, I have lived in Kanpur (in the Cantt area as an Army brat) and remember (even though was quite young then) that this ghat has been preserved pretty much as shown in this archival picture from the early 1865.

[shailendra]

The portrait of a dead man Walking (...eh, sitting!)

Anyways; This again is a rare picture from the same Mutiny times and also supposedly very much related to the above incidents; The picture apparently has a hand-written caption below, from the photographer- identifying this very much doomed (and chained if you see carefully) man as a certain Gungoo Mehter who was tried at Kanpur by the British for having (participated) and slaughtered many of the Sati Chaura survivors, which included many (all white) women and children.

He was then supposedly convicted for the crime and hanged at Kanpur on the 8th of September, 1859.

[jitendershooda]

Found a really good article shared by one of our fellow members .... but again the same question arises ... Why even after so much of sacrifices, we Jats are not having place in history books or news??

Thread about great ShahMal Jat

http://www.jatland.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20099

Haryana Govt should also have done some march or other functions to bring light on Nahar Singh and others who contributed for this freedom movement. Why our Governments in Haryana are so lazy?

I request the moderators to keep the following thread sticky

http://www.jatland.com/forums/showth...pender+ko+kaam

So that members can point out the issues of their area here and the MP member can go through them .... May this will help ...

[jitendershooda]

Either way, the fact has been very aptly chronicled by William Dalrymple, an American (go figure) award-winning travel writer and historian/author in his book called,”The last Mughal: the fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857."

You see nationalist historians will talk about the greatness of people like Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi and her opposition to the British etc, but the fact is that much of the uprising was centered in and around Delhi at the start and, from the morning of May 11 onwards, the largest number of rebels that joined into the uprising were just lower middle-class workers, not some glorified fighters.

Gaam aale bhai, sometimes it appears that whole of our history books and information that we have is wrong or diluted. Each and every main incident or person finds in contradictions here in india ... either it be TajMahal builder ... freedom moments ... religious books ... gandhi/Nehru etc etc... each and every thing is pirated it seems.

[sktewatia]

Nahar was the most recent victim of History's onslaght of Jats and more than anybody else, Jats themselves are to be blamed for this.

So, again the same question is there, where is Nahar in this expedition from Meerut to Delhi?

[sktewatia]

Ballabgarh was a tiny state, I agree. But who took surrender of Zafar, just a Major, perhaps. No mention of Nahar anywhere. Who revitalized the administartion from daroga of badarpur to Meo Chaudharies. Whether Jhansi was more importnat than Delhi, where Nahar ruled for a few months. What this garbage in history that we study n follow. Particularly, we, Jats!

[jitendershooda]

Ballabgarh was a tiny state, I agree. But who took surrender of Zafar, just a Major, perhaps. No mention of Nahar anywhere. Who revitalized the administartion from daroga of badarpur to Meo Chaudharies. Whether Jhansi was more importnat than Delhi, where Nahar ruled for a few months. What this garbage in history that we study n follow. Particularly, we, Jats!

Tewatia saab, theek kaho ho ... par ek baat hai apne haryane mein bhi kade humne kitaban mein Nahar singh ka naam nahi padhya ... haryane ki kitaba mein to kam se kam haryanvi history honi chahiye .... mene eeb hade jatland pe aae pache Nahar Singh ke bare mein bera patya ... ek baar reliance cup ka ek match huya tha Nahar Singh stadium mein faridabad ... jib mein nue sochya karta ek bhai yo aapne jat ke naam pe bhi stadium hai ... ke koe hude ka neta huya hai ... jib balkan ne kuch padhayae nahi jaga to kukar padhenge ye ...

Deepender bhai kuch karna chahiye aapne eeb to aake hath mein hai ... nue nahi hai ek sirf jat hi hon ... lekin rao tularam ... aur koe purana muslim bhi jaise Jhajjhar ka nawab jisko fansi di thi 1857 mein ... sab ka vivran hona chahiye haryana board ki kitab mein ... aaj tak apne centre mein UP ka bolbala rahya hai to Jhansi-gwalior aur udhar ka hi jayada padhne ko milta hai ... halanki sabhi jante hein ki jhansi ...aur jo bhi baki lade wo apne personal interest jyada they unke ... halanki unhone sacrifice kiya lekin apne aale jo bina kisi self interest ke jhonk gae jaan unko humare haryane ki janta ko to padhana chahiye ...

[ranjitjat]

Dear Jitender
I Understand your feeling and concern about Jat- History and fully support this noble cause.
I have personal contact with every CM- VC- Education Minister- President of Haryana Education board and highlighted this issue many times. But no positive result so far came to light.

Bhai yah kahni bahut lambi hae- iski apni hi history hae.
Hamne Swami OmanandJi ky sath history per kam kiya hae

Sabhi neta logo sy isky bare mae lambi bat-chit kiye hae
Swami ji ny Kaha ki Panjab ky museum mae hamra hisa hae

CM sahib ny kaha-haryana milgaya-yahi hamare liye bahut hae
Maro goli painting Murtiyoo ko- museum ko seer mae marna hae

Aap garon ki Bat karte han Hamne Depender ko bhi ajmaya hae
Delhi Jatsabha mae-aur London 2 bar CM sahib ko farmaya hae

Are bhai 2 sabdo mae bat khatam karta hu-.
History of Haryana Indain army- France to Kargil .

CM sahib ko Delhi 13 march 2005 ko bhet kar rakhi hae.

Aur History of Haryana saravkhap Martyrs & freedom fighters ki 2 copies
Cm Hooda Sahib ko Dadri ky MLA- Major Narpener Ky hath Bhej rakhi han
Usme Ch- Shahmal- UdmiRam- Raja Nahar Singh- Rao Tularam sy Laekar
Ch. Ranbirsingh Hooda tak Sari Saravkhap ki 1857 ky war ki history hae.

Bhiwani mae hi board hae- Bhiwani mae hamara Shaheed Dham trust hae.
aur Sari Books han.
Apni hi Sarkar hae- Apki chalti hae to Haryana board mae lagba doo

Hamko to Apky MP aur CM sahib ny book ky vimochan ka bhi time nahi diya.

Personal kam ky liye mae Kisi ky aage hath nahi falata.

Janta aur Shaheedo ki bat aati hae to muje kisi sy milne mae parhej nahi.

Lekin History ko- Bhaichare ko Gandi Rajniti sy upar rakhna chahiye.
Sari Ram kahani - public mae likhna nahi chahta-

Sachai bahut kadvi hoti hae- Sarkar ki Agadi sy Durr rahna chahiye.
Hope you understand. this is not protest campain against- apni sarkar

[dahiyars]

Dear All

Haryana had contributed maximum in the First War of Independance. There are many cities and villages in Haryana like Lal sarak Hansi ki, Libaspur in Sonepat district and Rohnat village in Hansi, Gamri Samri villages in Gohana and many more.may be we can add to the list. I have collected few folk Ragnis on 1857 war please go through and comment.

R.S.Dahiya

[sktewatia]

oh, dahiyaji, please keep this spirit up. after all it was roti kamal ka aandolan.

[sktewatia]

it was basically a peasant movement. Peasant movements continued since the time of Rama. gokula was also a peasant victim. Against Kansa also Krishna organised peasants only.

But I agree with Hoodaji, that at least in Haryana text books we must include the history of Nahar and other prominent Haryanvi Shaheeds. In Rajasthan text books full chapters on Surajmal etc. are available, why the same cant be done in Haryana?

[dahiyars]

Dear All

The People of Haryana faught the first battle in a big way. That is why after the britishers tookover again maximum repression was done on Haryana people.
Three more folk songs to reflect these things.

R.S.Dahiya