Jat Heroes Who made History

[DrRajpalSingh]

Jat community has produced great persons who have made great efforts to preserve the freedom of motherland and contributed a lot to making India a free country from the slavery of the foreign powers. Even after 1947, several great Jat personalities have contributed significantly for Nation building.

This is the need of the hour to bring the contribution of the great Jats to the knowledge of the youngsters in particular and all in general so that they could follow the foot prints of the Jat Heroes who made history through the ages.

Friends, Kindly post just the actual work done/contribution made by the concerned person/s. Here we must restrict our selves with highlighting only individual's contributions and no comparisons with others please.

The purpose of the thread is to share newer information on the great personalities of the yore and then update the data on the Wiki pages for proper use of the users.

[DrRajpalSingh]

A lot of information on the contribution of the famous Jats is available on the Wiki section of the Jatland. com

The participants could reach there if they log in http://www.jatland.com/home/Category:Famous_Jat_People

Additional information from other sources could be shared in the form of posts by the participants.

Let us first of all remember and pay our tribute to Maharaja Suraj Mal, the all times greatest sons of the Jat community, for his life and contribution to the service of motherland.


http://www.jatland.com/home/Maharaja_Suraj_Mal contains the below mentioned information in the opening para :

Maharaja Suraj Mal (13 February 1707 - 25 December 1763) (महाराजा सूरज मल, भरतपुर) was ruler of Bharatpur in Rajasthan in India. He has been described by a contemporary historian as "the Plato of Jat caste" and by a modern writer as the "Jat Ulysses", because of his political sagacity, steady intellect and clear vision. He was the greatest warrior and ablest statesman.

Readers are requested to add newer information, if any, on Maharaja Suraj Mal.

[krishdel]

Dear Rajpal Ji,
You are right that we should highlight the contributions of all our leaders after 1947 also. It should be irrespective of party & politics.
Great Jats who fought for independence

1.Maharaja Nahar Singh - He fought against British alongwith Bahadur Sahah Zaffar. He was hanged openely to a tree which was in front of TownHall in Chandni Chowck Delhi. It is very socking that the Govts in Delhi never care for that place . That tree was even cut by Govt Officials because that place was not associated with Gandhi & Nehru Family. It is samefull that no Govt. in Center & Delhi care for that.
2.Raja Mahendera Partap Singh - He contributed a lot in helping Azad Hind Fauj to stand.

Post Independence
1.Natwar Singh - Founder of Indian Foreign Policy. Insulted by Congress leaders and throughn away by Congress.
2.Chaudhary Charan Singh - a) Founded Bhartiya Kissan Union and then handed it over to farmers leaders to function independently.
b) Abolished Jamindari System in UP . Ahirs ( Yadavs) of East UP got bebefit for it.
c) Even China gave due respect for the economic thought of Chaudhary Sahib to promote small scale industry at village level and develop technology for that, sorry but no Indian Govt supported him on this issue. Even all the ruling govt joked that.
3.Chaudhay Devi Lal
a) Great Social Thinker of the post independent India. He struggled for separate Haryana State.
b) Great Social Vision - Old Age Pension and respect for elders. He started it first time on large scale in Haryana. That that the Cong. party even put a lot of jokes on that. Now all the states in India & Central Govt is following that.
c) Increase the Land Compensation for the first time. He increased the Land Compensation from Rs.80,000/- per kila given by DDA to Rs.23 Lacs per kila ( 5 Bigha) for the first time in Indian History despite opposed by complete burrocracy at center and state. Now all the party are following that.
d) Aid to SC family for their daughter marriage.

Dr.Sahib Singh Verma He was the first leader in Delhi who started development work in Delhi Villages, Before that all the development work was done only in new delhi area. Villages in Delhi were treated untouchable.

These contributions benefitted all the casts and communities.

Regards
Krishan Lakra

[DrRajpalSingh]

Good informative post for which you deserve thanks.

It would be more appropriate if we post our views in separate posts

taking up one by one all the Jat Heroes

who have left imprints of their feet on the Sands of Time.

[DrRajpalSingh]

Asha Ram Punia from village Bharu Ka Bas (Jhunjhunu), was a leading Freedom fighter who took part in Shekhawati Farmers Movement in Rajasthan.

Kindly expand the information and supply photograph, if any.

[DrRajpalSingh]

This Jatland wiki page needs expansion on the massive contribution of Baba Shahmal Tomar, the great but lesser known martyr of 1857:
Baba Shah Mal was a Tomar Jat resident of village Bijraul in the pargana of Barout in Uttar Pradesh. His role in the freedom movement of 1857 is unparallel. The farmers of the area had suffered from over-taxation by the British in the years prior to the outbreak of the first freedom movement in 1857. Shah Mal put together a combined force of Jat and Gujjar farmers of the area. His army attacked and plundered the tahsil of Barout and the bazaar at Baghpat. ^[1] Within a short period he took hold of 84 villages of Tomar Desh Khap. During the revolution of 1857, he made his headquarters at bungalow of Irrigation Department on Yanuna River and supervised and controlled his operations from there. The British army could not face the army of Shahmal. Graves of British Soldiers and Officers killed on 30th and 31st may, 1857 can be seen today at the Meerut Road Crossing near Hindon River.The British officer Dunlap could escape very marginally in a war with army of Shahmal in July 1857. Unfortunately the turban of Shahmal got entangled with legs of his horse. An English officer named Parkar who new Shahmal took advantage of this situation. He not only killed Shahmal but also cut his body to pieces and chopped his head off. The British army hanged the head of Shahmal on a jawline to terrify the public on 21 July 1857.

PS: I do not definitely remember the name of the book, I had once read a well researched Article about the enormous efforts put in by Ch. Shahmal Tomar to oust the British from western U P. Perhaps, it was one of the issues of Subaltern Studies ed. by Guha. If some scholar has access to all the issues, kindly check out and share the information please.

[DrRajpalSingh]

Chaudhary Kumbharam Arya (10 May 1914 - 26 October 1995) (चौधरी कुम्भाराम आर्य) was a freedom fighter, parliamentarian and popular leader of farmers in Rajasthan, India.

Chaudhary Kumbharam Arya

He was born at village Khaira-Chhota of princely state Patiala on 10th May 1914 in a Jat Hindu family of Sunda gotra. His father's name was Bhairaram and mother's name was Jivani. His ancestors belonged to village Kudan in Sikar District. His family migrated to village Saudanpur and finally settled at village Phephana or Fefana (फेफाना) of Nohar Tehsil of district Hanumangarh.

Chaudhary Kumbharam Arya was a great social reformer and a radical thinker. His ideology was not based on traditions. He was strong follower of Arya Samaj. He tried throughout his life to remove social evils from the society. He stoutly opposed untouchability. As the proverb goes, charity begins from home. So he appointed his butler who belonged to scheduled caste. His bodyguard was a Rajput. He arranged marriage of his Rajput bodyguard with a Muslim girl after adopting her as a sister.
He was the author of two books namely, “Kisan Union Kyon” and “Varg Chetana”. He started a weekly magazine “Kisan” in Hindi in 1978. He started a number of schools and hostels for girls in Bikaner region. He served for about 50 years in various capacities starting from Lok Parishad, National Congress, Janata Party, Bhartiy Krantidal, Bhartiy Lokdal and Janata Party with the interest of a common man in mind.
He passed away on 26th October 1995.


P S : Kindly help us to expand this write up on one of the great leaders of the community and the country..

[DrRajpalSingh]

Dear Rajpal Ji,
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3.Chaudhay Devi Lal
a) Great Social Thinker of the post independent India. He struggled for separate Haryana State.
b) Great Social Vision - Old Age Pension and respect for elders. He started it first time on large scale in Haryana. That that the Cong. party even put a lot of jokes on that. Now all the states in India & Central Govt is following that.
c) Increase the Land Compensation for the first time. He increased the Land Compensation from Rs.80,000/- per kila given by DDA to Rs.23 Lacs per kila ( 5 Bigha) for the first time in Indian History despite opposed by complete burrocracy at center and state. Now all the party are following that.
d) Aid to SC family for their daughter marriage.

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These contributions benefitted all the castes and communities.

Regards
Krishan Lakra

I may add here about him that :

16 varsh ki aayu mein desh ki azadi ke liye jail Jana; 86 varsh ki ayu mein antim sansh lene se pahle Rohtak zile mein Ole girne se kishanon ki fasal ko hui hani ki MP Ch. Inder Singh se jankari lene wale Vyakti ko Maha Purush nahin to kya kaha jayega !!!

Woh Jananayak the aur rahenge !!!


Jan Nayak Chaudhary Devi Lal per bahut si prakshit Pushtakon mein samgri uplabadh hai jismein hundreds leaders ke lekh lage hue hain. Anek Pradhan Mantri, kuch Rashtrpati, darzan bhar Mukhya Manti, anek Freedom Fighters, Bahut sari national aur prantiya rajneetik parties ke neta gana, un sabke lekh Chaudhry Devi Lal ke lagbhag 70 varsha ke Public life ke baare mein hain. Unko padhne ke baad hi unke jeewan aur darshan ko samjha ja sakta hai.

Vastava mein Chaudhary Devi Lal, Jan Nayak the aur Man of Masses ke rup mein desh /videsh mein unki chhavi thee aur aaj bhi unke dwara armbha kiye gaye BUDHAPA PENSION SCHEME, KAAM KE BAADLE ANAZ YOJNA, KAARZA MUAFI KI AWAJ UTHANA, BEROJGARI BHATTA DENE KI ZAROORAT, SSTUDENTS KE LIYE CONCENSIONAL BUS PASS, MATCHING GRANT SCHEMES, HARIJAN CHOPAL SCHEME, ITIYADI SCHEMES KO HARYANA AUR DESH KEE ANYA PARANTIYE SARKARON NE APNE APNE DHANG SE LAGOO KIYA HAI.

YAH UNKI DURGAMI SOCH AUR JANATA KE DUKH DARD DOOR KARANE KEE TADAF PRADRISHAT KARANE KE LIYE KAFI HAI.

Jana Nayak Ko NAMAN !!!

[DrRajpalSingh]

Chaudhary Mehtab Singh Sheoran from Pachgama village near Badhra in district Bhiwani of Haryana was unanimously elected as the Raja of Dadri ilaqa of the then Jind State after the ruler of Jind was showing reluctance to join India on the eve of freedom in 1947. In the presence of thousands of people there he declared the merger of Dadri in Indian Union which step later was approved by the Jind ruler as de jure !

Kindly expand the post by adding extra notes/information on this important event and come forward to pay homage to the leaders and the people who fought for making India great !

Such great were efforts of the Jats of the region and such great were their leaders that need written in the golden letters on the pages of history of freedom fighters.

[DrRajpalSingh]

The great Freedom Fighter, popularly known as the Jat Peshwa, Raja Mahenra Pratap of Mursan in Uttar Pradesh, was the first person who rebelled against the British and established the First Azad Hind Sarkar in Kabul in 1916. He became its President with Barqatullah Khan from Bhopal as the Prime Minister and tried to free India with the help of foreign aid particularly from Germany, Afghanistan, Iran, Tibet, Japan and of course, the USA. For this purpose he undertook ardous journeys met government heads and common people to solicit their cooperation in the fight against the British domination over India for over 30 years.

He was a great votary of World Federation and was against the political division among the nations with geographical boundaries which prevented free flow of people from one place to another.

In free India, he fought election for Lok Sabha twice, once won and once lost.

He opened First Technical Institute to commemorate his son in the style ''Prem Mahavidyalya'' in his royal palace at Varindavana when there was none in the country. The gesture was greatly appreciated by leaders of national movement after visiting this technical college including Gurudeva Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi.

[krishdel]

Rajpal Ji,
We should educate our society about this.We need the check that is there chapter in Hindi Book in school on Raja Mehendra Pratap in Haryana Schools . If not then we should try to get it added. We should also celebrate his Birth Anniversary in all of our Jat Bhawans.
Regards
Krishan Lakra

[DrRajpalSingh]

Good idea.

[DrRajpalSingh]

Let us bow our heads respectfully to remember their contribution and take a pledge to devote a bit of more time to the service of the community and society at large.

The Trio is listed on the Wiki pages of the Jatland.com

13 March is the birthday of Swami Indravesh

and

15 March is the birthday of Choudhary Ramdan Dookiya
and Dr. Sahib Singh Verma

[DrRajpalSingh]

Swami Indravesh (स्वामी इन्द्रवेश) (1937 – 2006) was a great social worker, Arya Samaj leader and formerly Member of Parliament. He has done a great work in the field of education. He was born in Sundana village, District Rohtak, on 13 March 1937 in Haryana. He was born in a Jat Hindu family of Dhaka gotra.

Apart from his long association with political parties, he remained associated with Gurukul Jhajjar, Gurukul Kangri, Gurukul Matindu (Sonepat), Gurukul Singhpura (Rohtak), Swami Dayanand Math (Rohtak) and Kevalanand Nigam Asharm, Bijnor (UP) which is spread in about 125 acres of land containing a huge Gaushala, Sanskrit College, B-Ed and Nursing College and a sports stadium. He also toured Germany, USA, Holland and some other countries in his mission to spread the message of Vedas.

[DrRajpalSingh]

Chaudhary Kanhiya Singh was born in Butana village in Sonipat district in Haryana.


As a noted Freedom Fighter:


Ch. Kanhiya Singh was a great freedom Fighter. He was wounded in Jallianwala Bagh in 1919 by a bullet shot in his arm. Later he participated in Salt Movement in 1930 for which he was imprisoned for six months. Then he remained behind bars for nine months for his participation in non-co-operation movement.


He joined individual satyagraha and was detained for one year with Rs.100/- as fine. Again, on his release from jail he participated in the Quit India Movement and was imprisoned for one year. Thus he served four terms in jail with total three and a half years' for opposing the British Rule over India.


After the country became free, he remained in his village and passed away at the ripe age of 92 years.

[DrRajpalSingh]

23 March is the death anniversary of Sardar Bhagat Singh and Swamy Omanand Saraswati. Our salute to both the great souls.

[DrRajpalSingh]

Respectful Salute to Martyr 'Shahid-i-Azam' Bhagat Singh ji and Saintly sacrifices and Crusade of Swami Omananda Sarswati ji.


The community that does not remember their martyrs and heroes is itself destined to be forgotten by the future generations !

[DrRajpalSingh]

We Salute to great Martyrs on this day!!!!

[DrRajpalSingh]

Chaudhary Mehar Singh Dangi was born in village Madina in district Rohtak in [Haryana.

He played an important role in the freedom movement and went to jails several times due to his role as ''bhajaopdeshka'' role. He suffered imprisonment for six months in the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930 and one year or a fine of Rs. 1,000/- in 1932. Again he was convicted and sent to reformatory jail in Delhi for 5 years in another case the same year.


He participated in the Asauda Satyagraha in 1938-39 and suffered one year jail under the D.I.R. in 1940. Again for his participation in Quit India Movement he remained behind bars for one year. He took his last breath in 1983.

We salute him for his patriotic fervour and zeal for freedom.

[DrRajpalSingh]

Chaudhary Badlu Ram Hooda Son of Chaudhary Udmi Ram Hooda was born at village Sanghi in district Rohtak. He belonged to a rich Jat agricultural family. He was educated and joined the national movement for freedom. He joined Civil Disobedience movement and underwent imprisonment for 7 months when he was merely 20 years old.

In 1941, he was again jailed for 18 months and fined Rs.500/-.

He was elected twice to Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1946 and 1952 from Meham.

He passed away on 24rh January, 1986.