Sheikhsar (formally known as Sukhchainpura) is a village in

Lunkaransar Lunkaransar is a town, near city of Bikaner in the Bikaner district of Indian state of Rajasthan. Lunkaransar lake in Rajasthan is a playa lake formed due to deflation. Lunkaransar is most popular for Peanuts in Rajasthan. Lunkaransar is a ...

tehsil of Bikaner district in

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, India. It is situated on the north-east border of the district adjoining Churu and

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district boundaries. The village has a population of 5820 out of them are Scheduled Caste(SC) 1182 and Scheduled Tribe(ST) 4.

History

Formerly it was the capital of the princely state of Sheikhsar which later got merge with the

princely state A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to ...

Bikaner Bikaner () is a city in the northwest of the state of Rajasthan, India. It is located northwest of the state capital, Jaipur. Bikaner city is the administrative headquarters of Bikaner District and Bikaner division. Formerly the capital ...

Sheikhsar State

The

Jat The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subseq ...

zamindar Pandu Godara of Ladhadia was in love with Malki, the daughter of the Jat zamindar Raisal Beniwal of Raslana and the princess Malki also loved him. But her father got her married to the Jat zamindar Phula Saharan of the princely state of Bharag. Princess Malki sent a message through her spy to King Pandu Godara that he should take her away. Taking this message, Pandu Godara attacked Bhadaga with his army and went away with Malki. Due to this action of his, other Jat rulers attacked the princely state of Pandu Godara and Pandu could not fight them alone, so he took the help of

Rao Bika Rao Bika Rathore (5 August 1438 – 17 June 1504), was the founder of the Kingdom of Bikaner in present-day Rajasthan. He was a scion of the Rathore clan of Rajputs. He was a son of Rao Jodha, founder of the kingdom of Marwar. Establishm ...

, son of

Rao Jodha Rao Jodha Rathore(28 March 1416 – 6 April 1489) was a ruler of Mandore in the present-day state of Rajasthan. He was the son of Rao Ranmal (Rao Ridmal) of the Rathore clan. He is known for his illustrious military career and for founding the c ...

, with his help he escaped from Ladhadia but his princely state Ladhadia suffered heavy losses. Later Godara Jats established a new princely state, Sheikhsar and Pandu Godara donated his entire princely state to Rao Bika in return for his help, which later came to be known as the

, from here the Jat dynasty ended on

Jangladesh Jangladesh, also known as Janglu, was a historical region in north, north-western and north-eastern Rajasthan state in northern India. It included the present-day districts of Bikaner, Churu, Ganganagar, and Hanumangarh. It was bounded on the ...

and the Rajput dynasty began.

Origin of Village Name

Baba Sheikh Farid Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj-i-Shakar ( ; – 7 May 1266) was a 13th-century Punjabi Sunni Muslim preacher and mystic, who was one of the most revered and distinguished Muslim mystics of the medieval period. He is known reverentially as B� ...

visited northern areas of

and lived there for long time. And his spiritual teachings affected people. In the Sukhchainpura village of Rajasthan,

made salty water drinkable, by his Yoga Maya. And people of Sukhchainpura village been so impressed by 'Yog Power' and devotion of Baba that they changed the name of village to Sheikhsar.{{Cite book, last=Saṃskartā, first=Nānūrāma, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=omNuAAAAMAAJ&q=%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B0, title=Kheṛai-rapaṭa: kshetrīya purāvr̥tta, date=1984, publisher=Loka Sāhitya Pratishṭhāna, language=hi

References

External links

LDCA BSNL, Bikaner
Bikaner district Villages in Bikaner district Former states and territories Princely states of India Princely states of Rajasthan