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The history of the Kudwa State family is closely connected with the struggle against British rule and the bravery of its ancestors. In the early period, the ancestors of the Kudwa State family were jagirdars of the Basgaon Jagir, which is situated in the present-day Dudahi area of Kushinagar. The family maintained a long tradition of public service, courage, and resistance. During the seventeenth century, members of the Basgaon Jagir tradition, including Dilip Narayan Singh and Babu Hanuman Singh, gained considerable popularity among the people through their social and educational activities. Among the prominent ancestors of the Basgaon Jagir were Kunwar Hari Singh and Kunwar Raghunath Singh, who belonged to the respected ruling family and played an important role in defending their people and their jagirdari rights. In 1799, during the Battle of Bhatpar Rani, the people and soldiers associated with the contemporary jagir rose together against the British and fought with determination to protect the authority and ownership of the jagirdar. The conflict became a significant example of local resistance, as soldiers as well as ordinary people participated in the fighting. Kunwar Hari Singh and Kunwar Raghunath Singh displayed great courage in the struggle and attained martyrdom while fighting against the British. Their sacrifice became an enduring symbol of bravery and resistance for the people of the region. The united resistance of the soldiers and local population ultimately resulted in the victory of the Basgaon Jagir. The memory of this struggle has continued to remain alive among the people of the surrounding villages, where the courage and sacrifice of these ancestors are still remembered and discussed. The legacy of the Kudwa State family therefore represents not only the history of a particular ruling family but also the participation of local communities in resisting British power. The family’s historical connection with the region continues even today, with Kunwar Narendra Kumar Singh stating that the family still possesses several hundred acres of land in the Dudahi area. The story of the Kudwa State ancestors demonstrates that resistance to British rule didnt just emerge during 1857, it was there way beforethe mutiny. The bravery of Kunwar Hari Singh, Kunwar Raghunath Singh, and the people who fought alongside them forms an important part of the local history of the Kushinagar region and serves as a reminder of the sacrifices made by bhumihar rulers in the struggle against foreign rule way before the 1857 mutiny.

The painting is described as the painting of Bhatpur rani battle of 1799 and its unfortunate that we have no idea about this event from history.

This graph shows us genetic distance between groups, and their steppe MLBA (%) as well.

For Bhumihars, it shows that they're the most steppe shifted group in the subcontinent after some jat groups & rors with Avg around 30 %. Just behind us are Northern Brahmins and Doabi Jats with avg being somewhere between 25 and 30.

When it comes to genetic distance, Northern Brahmins are the closest group to us. And we fall in that Gangetic UC cluster (Brahmins, Bhumihars and Rajputs).

For context, Old Saran division consisted of modern districts of Gopalganj, Siwan & Chhapra.

Buchanan has written how magadha was taken over by the Babhans whom he has mostly referred as 'military Brahmins' or 'Brahmins who took up agriculture'.

We find similar terminologies used for Babhans, such as predatory Brahmins, Gautami Brahmins (followers of budha), secular Brahmins, Magadhi Brahmins....in the early colonial mentions.

He has mentioned 80,000 families of Babhans present in the region who occupied the vast majority of the land in magadh region.

Just saw some folks crying over our previous post (the University of Calcutta one), lol.

Although it's merely 1–2 accounts seething over this, we've noticed that the majority of these people are from Mithila or Purvanchal.

A big reason why they're seething about this is their upbringing and the ideologies they were exposed to while growing up. As Babhans, we should get rid of any sort of sub-nationalism we have for our state, region, or whatever divides us or gives us a sort of ego that makes us ashamed of our Buddhist/Magadhan heritage.

In this context, due to constant exposure to post-2014 Hindutva politics among the middle-class population, they cannot think of anything other than Ambedkarites when they're told about Buddhism. They also have a sort of hollow pride in their dialects or whatever, such that whenever they read about their Magadhan origin, their Bhojpuri/Maithili BS comes in the way. And it's ironically funny because core Mithila merely had any Babhans a few centuries ago. (Angika, Bajjika ≠ Maithil)

They'd rather connect their lineage to somewhere in Gujarat,Kashmir or south india, lmfao.

Do tell me if you've anything to say about this.

In this book the author has talked about how Bhumihars, the aristocracy of Bihar originate from the magadha, which was the the heartland of budhism in the past.

And similarly Bhumihars have any ancient Budhist heritage as well, which was gradually faded about after the brahmanical wave into the region.

Similarly the university of London (oriental studies) says that "Magadha is country of the Babhans" as well.

These academic sources have debunked every other theory about any non-magadhan region being the origin place of Bhumihars.

This Magadhan thing in academia is supported by our demography distribution as well, majority of our tribe still lives in magadha and its surrounding regions

Atp, we should stay away from any ooga booga pothis which suggests 50 different origins for 50 mools.

Do tell us if you've any doubts or suggestions about this

In August 1781due to ongoing wars in the south, The company demanded unreasonable amount of money and troops from on its most prominent ally in the North, Benares State. Maharaja Chait singh who was already paying them a lot of money, showed no interest in paying this new unreasonable request.

Warren Hastings came with a battalion to arrest the Maharaja, but the enraged soldiers of the Maharaja massacred them and arrested Hastings at the chunar fort. Somehow Hastings escaped the fort at night and came back with a much bigger force to arrest the Maharaja.

Thus the spark ignited in Banaras, but the conflict’s intensity and main theatre rapidly shifted to Bihar, where Chait Singh and his father Balwant Singh had long exercised significant influence over territories stretching from Shahabad and Bhojpur to Buxar.

Local zamindars, already strained by revenue demands and droughts, seized the opportunity to challenge British authority. Leaders such as Raza Quli Khan of Sasaram, Pitambar Singh of Tekari in Gaya, Hussain Ali Khan of Arwal, Maharaja Fateh Bahadur Shahi of Saran, Narain Singh of Siris-Kutumba, and Akbar Ali Khan of Narhat-Samoy mobilized thousands of armed followers. They blocked roads, attacked Company positions, and coordinated resistance across Patna, Saran, Gaya, and Shahabad regions. British officials like Mr. Ross in Patna scrambled to secure cities and suppress the uprising, highlighting how deeply the revolt had spread. The rebels defeated the EIC soldiers at Mirzapur, Benares and only few soldiers were able to escape.

From Allahabad to monghyr, entire region was under the banner of rebellion. British soldiers were killed and the zamindars defied the British rule. When prophem's regiment started from mirijapur to join in order to join Warren Hastings they were intercepted in a narrow street and indiscriminately butchered. Captain Mayaffee of the artillery was furiously assaulted and his head was struck off. Captain Mayaffee’s head was shown to the town as a trophy. This gentleman had also the company of French men that that sir Eyre Coote brought from Madras, a hundred strong who were also miserably hacked to pieces, only fourteen of them having escaped to chunar. Five other artillery officers were killed and wounded.

The rebellion was first of its kind, way before the 1857 mutiny. Though ultimately crushed by the Company forces, the 1781 uprising of benares was first of its kind and there was no other event later in the region which united the local zamindars & rajas to this extent.It remains a significant but often overlooked chapter in the history of opposition to colonial rule in eastern India.

The chieftaincy was established by Raja veer singh of Drontikar clan who used to be in service of the Mughal Army, His Son Maharaja Sundar Singh succeeded the throne & took the chieftaincy to its greatest extent. He captured nearby parganas of magadha (10-12).

The Tekari chieftaincy became the most prominent zamindari of Magadha. He also took part in various Battles including the Bengal-Maratha wars with his Army.

Tekari Raj was noted to be the most influential & revenue generating Zamindari in the subah.

He was later assassinated & succeeded by his nephew Buniyad singh. Buniyad singh among with various other nobles were killed by treachery, by the nawab of Bengal.

During his death, His son mitrajit singh was merely an infant. After growing up, he got the zamindari back and was known for development in the region.

During the Buchanan's visit in the region, he wrote that the Maharaja has built various roads, hospitals in the region.

After this era, the Tekari Raj took part in the rebellion against the east india company along with various other Bhumihar chieftains, like Maharaja jugal kishor singh of Bettiah raj, Maharaja Fateh Bahadur shahi of Hussepur.....

The erstwhile ruler Maharaja Pitambar singh took part in the Benares rebellion of 1781 which was led by Maharaja Chait singh of Kashi Kingdom, along with several other zamindars of Bihar. Maharaja was hanged in Patna for it, unfortunately we'd rather celebrate Mangal pandey than our own heroes.

The British administration was enraged by this act and divided the zamindari in various parts. Like Amawan raj (the biggest zamindari of Patna), Maksudpur......

The chieftaincy was established by Drontikar Bhumihar Raja veer singh who used to be in service of the Mughal Army, His Son Maharaja Sundar Singh succeeded the throne & took the chieftaincy to its greatest extent. He captured nearby parganas of magadha (10-12).

The Tekari chieftaincy became the most prominent zamindari of Magadha. He also took part in various Battles including the Bengal-Maratha wars with his Army.

Tekari Raj was noted to be the most influential & revenue generating Zamindari in the subah.

He was later assassinated & succeeded by his nephew Buniyad singh. Buniyad singh among with various other nobles were killed by treachery, by the nawab of Bengal.

During his death, His son mitrajit singh was merely an infant. After growing up, he got the zamindari back and was known for development in the region.

During the Buchanan's visit in the region, he wrote that the Maharaja has built various roads, hospitals in the region.

After this era, the Tekari Raj took part in the rebellion against the east india company along with various other Bhumihar chieftains, like Maharaja jugal kishor singh of Bettiah raj, Maharaja Fateh Bahadur shahi of Hussepur.....

The erstwhile ruler Maharaja Pitambar singh took part in the Benares rebellion of 1781 which was led by Maharaja Chait singh of Kashi Kingdom, along with several other zamindars of Bihar.

The British administration was enraged by this act and divided the zamindari in various parts. Like Amawan raj (the biggest zamindari of Patna), Maksudpur......

From Allahabad to monghyr, entire region was under the banner of rebellion.

British soldiers were killed and the zamindars defied the British rule.

Started by Maharaja Chait singh in 1781, and various zamindars of the region joined him. Including Maharaja Fateh bahadur shahi of Hussepur, Pitambar singh of Tikari, muslim zamindars of Narhat & Samai, Sasaram, zamindars of Palamu, Pawai, Siris & kutumba, various ujjainiya Rajputs and many others.

The rebellion was first of its kind, way before the 1857 mutiny.

Deshavali vivriti is like an indigenous district gazetteer which was written by a shakdwipi brahmin scholar under the patronization of a Chauhan ruler.

It tells us about how Bhumihar chieftaincies arose in magadha and neighboring territories after the fall of a centralized rule in the region.

It mentions 2 such incidents, one during a much earlier era and one during the 1600s.

We'll talk about the 2nd one rn

The text is:

स्वर्गं गते बैजले च दुष्टा भूपतिवृन्दयः ।

स्वं स्वं राज्यं च सम्प्रापुर्भूमिहारकवंशजाः ।

देवमुङ्गरादिस्थानानि भूमिहारकजातिजाः ।

निजायत्तं च सञ्चक्रुर्दूरेकृत्य राजपुत्रकान् ॥

Meaning:

"When King Baijal passed away, a group of wicked rulers began seizing control of their respective kingdoms. At that time, the heroes born in the Bhumihar lineage rose up and brought the regions of Dev, Munger, and other territories under their control. They defeated the Rajputs and established their own independent kingdoms."

"जब बैजल राजा स्वर्ग सिधार गए, तब दुष्ट राजाओं का समूह अपने-अपने राज्य पर कब्ज़ा करने लगा। उस समय भूमिहार कुल में उत्पन्न वीरों ने उठकर देव, मुंगेर आदि क्षेत्रों को अपने वश में कर लिया। उन्होंने राजपूतों को पराजित करके स्वयं राज्य स्थापित किया।"

Here, Baijal was some king under the mughal administration and after this death, various Bhumihar rulers arose and took over the magadha & neighboring regions, and established their own rule after defeating the Rajputras (Rajputs). Interestingly, the author has referred to the new rulers as "Dushta" , its likely due to the fact that he was patronized by the same dynasty which was overthrown by those new rulers.

He was born on 15 May 1907 into a Bhumihar family in the village of Jalalpur, in the Muzaffarpur district.

And to avenge the death of Bhagat singh, he killed fanindra nath ghosh & was eventually hanged by the British government on 14may 1934.

He also took part in civil disobedience movement and was jailed for it in the past.

From the boundaries of Allahabad to Buxar, and from the Tamsa in the north upto chhotanagpur plateau in the south. Its boundary with Bihar was mainly decided by the Karmanasa river although it held the territory of NW shahabaad in Buxar.