Karaikella is a village situated at

Chaibasa Chaibasa is a small town and a municipality in West Singhbhum district in the state of Jharkhand, India. Chaibasa is the district headquarters of West Singhbhum district. It is also the headquarter of Singhbhum Kolhan division headed by the D ...

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Ranchi Ranchi (; ) is the capital city and also the largest district by population of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern ...

Main Road near

Chakradharpur Chakradharpur is a municipal town situated in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, India, positioned strategically on the Chota Nagpur Plateau. Located 62 kilometers west of Jamshedpur, 115 kilometers south of Ranchi, and 101 kilometers ea ...

in the Indian state of

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north ...

History

Karaikela, once was a pargana within the Porahat estate, spanned an expansive 50 square miles, encompassing as many as 64 villages. The period of 1857-1859 bore witness to a series of conflicts between the Porahat state and the British administration, culminating in the eventual surrender of Raja Arjun Singh, the incumbent ruler of Porahat. Subsequent to his capitulation, Raja Arjun Singh was exiled to

Banaras Varanasi (, also Benares, Banaras ) or Kashi, is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.* * * * The city has a syncretic tradition of I ...

, marking a significant shift in the region's leadership. In the wake of these transformative events, the British authorities recognized the steadfastness of the Raja of the

Saraikela state Saraikela State also spelt Seraikela, Saraikella or Seraikella, was a small princely state in India during the British Raj, in the region that is now the Jharkhand state. Its capital was at Saraikela. The state had an area of 1163 km2 whic ...

and conferred upon him the stewardship of Karaikela in 1860.

References

{{reflist Villages in West Singhbhum district