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Prag Das
Prag Das was the Thakur of Bijairaghogarh from 1826 until his death in 1845. Biography He was born to Durjan Singh, the Thakur of Maihar, and, upon his father’s death in 1826, inherited the chiefship of Bijairaghogarh. The British government conferred a sanad upon him on 29 February 1828, and through it, they recognized him as the chief of Bijairaghogarh. He conducted the affairs of his state with great success and introduced many beneficial reforms. During his reign, the Bijairaghogarh was considered a flourishing place with an efficient and benevolent administration. He built a temple dedicated to Lord Vijayraghav and a fort named Vijayraghavgarh. He died in 1845, and his son Surju Prasad Surju Prasad was the Thakur of Bijairaghogarh from 1845 until his death in 1858. Biography He was born to Prag Das and, upon his father's death in 1845, succeeded him as the Thakur of Bijairaghogarh. At the time of his accession, he was on ... succeeded him to the title.{{C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thakur (title)
Thakur is a historical Indian feudalism, feudal Indian honorifics, title of the Indian subcontinent. It is also used as a surname in the present day. The female variant of the title is Thakurani or Thakurain, and is also used to describe the wife of a Thakur. There are varying opinions among scholars about its origin. Some scholars suggest that it is not mentioned in the Sanskrit texts preceding 500 Common Era, BCE, but speculates that it might have been a part of the vocabulary of the dialects spoken in North India, northern India before the Gupta Empire. It is viewed to have been derived from word ''Thakkura'' which, according to several scholars, was not an original word of the Sanskrit Languages of India, language but a borrowed word in the Indian lexis from the Tukharistan region of Uzbekistan. Another view-point is that ''Thakkura'' is a loan word from the Prakrit language. Scholars have suggested differing meanings for the word, i.e. "god", "lord", and "master of the es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bijairaghogarh
Bijairaghogarh (or Vijayraghavgarh) was a princely state in India. It was disestablished due to its participation in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. History Durjan Singh, the Thakur of Maihar, had two sons: Bishan Singh and Prag Das. After his death in 1826, his territory was divided into two parts. His eldest son, Bishan Singh, succeeded him as the Thakur of Maihar, while his younger son, Prag Das, was granted Bijairaghogarh. The state first came into contact with the East India Company when, through a sanad on 29 February 1828, it recognized Prag Das as the ruler of Bijairaghogarh. It was confiscated in 1858 by the East India Company due to the involvement of its Thakur, Surju Prasad, in the Revolt of 1857. Upon its confiscation, the then ruler of Maihar claimed that since it had originally been part of Maihar, it should be returned to him. However, his claim was rejected, and in 1865, it was incorporated into the territories administered by the Chief Commissioner of the Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surju Prasad
Surju Prasad was the Thakur of Bijairaghogarh from 1845 until his death in 1858. Biography He was born to Prag Das and, upon his father's death in 1845, succeeded him as the Thakur of Bijairaghogarh. At the time of his accession, he was only five years old. Due to his minority, Bijairaghogarh was placed under the court of wards. When the Indian Rebellion of 1857 broke out against the rule of the East India Company, he was seventeen, and his state was still under the management of the Deputy Commissioner of Jabalpur. By this time, he had become an expert horse rider and had learned to wield swords and use guns. By late October 1857, as the public remained unsettled by events in Jabalpur following the execution of Raja Shankar Shah, he rose in revolt. He with the support of his relatives, including those of Kanchanpur and Chaura, raised an army of 3,000 well-trained soldiers. He was later joined by the Rajas of Shahgarh, Bakhtbali, and many other chiefs. He killed Mir Sabit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durjan Singh (ruler)
Durjan Singh was the Thakur of Maihar from 1790 until his death in 1826. Biography He was the younger son of Beni Singh and succeeded his eldest brother, Rajdhar Singh, to the gaddi of Maihar in 1790 when Ali Bahadur of Banda restored it to him after conquering it from his brother. When the British government occupied Bundelkhand, he executed a deed of allegiance with them in 1806, and they confirmed him in his possession. The sanad he received in 1806 was later revised in 1814. Upon his death in 1826, his dominions were divided into two parts.{{Cite book , last=Department , first=India Foreign and Political , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icwkAQAAIAAJ , title=Central Indian Agency , date=1909 , publisher=Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India , pages=7–8,226–227 , language=en His eldest son, Bishan Singh, inherited the Maihar, while his second son, Prag Das, received Bijairaghogarh Bijairaghogarh (or Vijayraghavgarh) was a princely state in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maihar State
Maihar State was a princely state in India during the British Raj, located in what is today Madhya Pradesh, central India. The state had an area of , and a population of 63,702 in 1901. The state, which was watered by the Tons River, consists mainly of alluvial soil covering sandstone, and is fertile except in the hilly district of the south. A large area was under forest, the produce of which provided a small export trade. The state gained India-wide and later, worldwide fame for Maihar gharana, a gharana or school of Indian classical music. It is one of the most prominent gharanas of the 20th century; much of the fame of Hindustani classical music in the west stems from this gharana. History Maihar was originally a dependency of Rewa, but Harde Sah, the eldest son of Chhatrasal, took advantage of the minority of Audhut Singh Ju Deo of Rewa, attacked him, and annexed Maihar and Bijairaghogarh to his territories. Hindupat, the Raja of Panna, granted Maihar as a jagi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company gained Company rule in India, control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and British Hong Kong, Hong Kong. At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British Army at certain times. Originally Chartered company, chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies," the company rose to account for half of the world's trade during the mid-1700s and early 1800s, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, sugar, salt, spices, Potass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1845 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – The Philippines began reckoning Asian dates by hopping the International Date Line through skipping Tuesday, December 31, 1844. That time zone shift was a reform made by Governor–General Narciso Claveria on August 16, 1844, in order to align the local calendars in the country with the rest of Asia as trade interests with Imperial China, Dutch East Indies and neighboring countries increased, after Mexico became independent in 1821. The reform also applied to Caroline Islands, Guam, Marianas Islands, Marshall Islands, and Palau as part of the Captaincy General of the Philippines. * January 10 – Elizabeth Barrett receives a love letter from the younger poet Robert Browning; on May 20, they meet for the first time in London. She begins writing her ''Sonnets from the Portuguese''. * January 23 – The United States Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, which will henceforth be held on the first Tuesday after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Hindus
Hinduism is the largest and most practised religion in India. About 80% of the demographics of India, country's population is Hindus, Hindu. India contains 94% of the global Hindu population. The vast majority of Indian Hindus belong to Vaishnavism, Vaishnavite, Shaivism, Shaivite, and Shaktism, Shakta Hindu denominations, denominations. India is one of the three countries in the world (Hinduism in Nepal, Nepal (81%) and Hinduism in Mauritius, Mauritius (48%) being the other two) where Hinduism is the dominant religion. History of Hinduism The Vedic period, Vedic culture developed in India in and . After this period, the Historical Vedic religion, Vedic religion merged with local traditions and the renouncer traditions, resulting in Hindu synthesis, the emergence of Hinduism, which has had a profound impact on India's History of India, history, Culture of India, culture and Indian philosophy, philosophy. The name ''India'' itself is derived from Sanskrit ''Sindhu'', the his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajput Monarchs
Rājpūt (, from Sanskrit ''rājaputra'' meaning "son of a king"), also called Thākur (), is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. The term ''Rajput'' covers various patrilineal clans historically associated with warriorhood: several clans claim Rajput status, although not all claims are universally accepted. According to modern scholars, almost all Rajput clans originated from peasant or pastoral communities. Over time, the Rajputs emerged as a social class comprising people from a variety of ethnic and geographical backgrounds. From the 12th to 16th centuries, the membership of this class became largely hereditary, although new claims to Rajput status continued to be made in later centuries. Several List of Rajput dynasties and states, Rajput-ruled kingdoms played a significant role in many regions of central and North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Unknown
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
