Haidernagar is one of the administrative
blocks of
Palamu district
Palamu district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state, India. It was formed in 1892. The administrative headquarter of the district is Medininagar (formerly DaltonGanj), situated on the Koel River.
History
The Palamu district ha ...
,
Jharkhand state,
India.
History
Haidarnagar is a
rajput-dominated region since 1770 when the Mahthan rajputs hailing from nabinagar captured the town. The nawab of Eshaknagar made a treaty with rajput chief Babu Shiv Dayal Singh to grant zamindari rights and change the name of Eshaknagar to babuandih (spelled babhandih). According to the treaty, 24 out of 55 villages were granted to Shiv Dayal singh.later the
estate
Estate or The Estate may refer to:
Law
* Estate (law), a term in common law for a person's property, entitlements and obligations
* Estates of the realm, a broad social category in the histories of certain countries.
** The Estates, representat ...
got divided into babu sahebs of Babhandih,Bilaspur,haidernagar.The
nawabs
Nawab ( Balochi: نواب; ar, نواب;
bn, নবাব/নওয়াব;
hi, नवाब;
Punjabi : ਨਵਾਬ;
Persian,
Punjabi ,
Sindhi,
Urdu: ), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Noba ...
lost honour and value among the locals. Babu Tapeswari Singh went to study law from a college in Bihar.His son Biseswar Dayal Singh was prominent name in the area and resisted british for measuring
net sown area in his Estate until 1942 when it was finally done. He was active in politics and the freedom struggle,inspired by gandhian vision he led the workers strike at dalmia paper factory. He donated acres of lands during the ''bhoodan gramdan'' movement of
Vinoba Bhave
Vinayak Narahari, also known as Vinoba Bhave (; 11 September 1895 – 15 November 1982), was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called ''Acharya'' (Sanskrit teacher), he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is cons ...
.The descendants of main branch of zamindar family lives in babhandih.
Languages
Languages spoken there include
Asuri, an
Austroasiatic language spoken by approximately 17 000 in India, largely in the southern part of Palamu;
and
Bhojpuri
Bhojpuri (;[Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries](_blank)
, Oxford U ...
, a tongue in the
Bihari language
Bihari is a group of the Indo-Aryan languages. The Bihari languages are mainly spoken in the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh and also in Nepal.Brass, Paul R. (1974). ''Language, Religion and Politics in North Ind ...
group with almost 40 million speakers, written in both the
Devanagari and
Kaithi scripts.
See also
*
Palamu Loksabha constituency
*
Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
References
Pansa-Sundipur Bridge - Longest Bridge of JharkhandBridge
Community development blocks in Jharkhand
Community development blocks in Palamu district
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