Sarosi Estate
Sarosi was an estate (taluqdari) of Oudh, British India.[1][2][3] The taluqdari was controlled by the Parihar clan of Rajputs.[4][5][6] Now it is part of Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh, India.
History[edit]
The story of the settling of the ancestors of the clan at Sarosi is thus told. About three hundred years ago, at the time of Humayun, Emperor of Delhi, a Dikhit girl from Parenda was married to the son of the Parihar Raja of Jigini, across the Jumna. The bridegroom came with a large escort of his friends and brotherhood to celebrate the marriage, and the party on their journey passed through Sarosi. As they sat down around a well, they asked who were the lords of the fort which stood not far off. They were told that the fort was held by Dhobis and other Shudras who owned the neighbouring country. The procession then went on to Parenda and returning, conducted the bride to her home. Just before the Holi festival, a party, headed by Bhagay Singh, returned, waited for the evening of that riotous feast and then, when the guards of the fort were heavy with wine and no danger was looked for, suddenly attacked and slaughtered them and made themselves masters of the fort and the surrounding country.[1][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Bhagay Singh had four sons and they divided the eighty-four villages he had conquered at his death. Asis and Salhu, the two eldest sons, took the largest portion of the estate-twenty villages falling to the former and to the latter forty-two. The third son, Manik, was a devotee and refused to be troubled with worldly affairs. All he asked for was one village on the banks of the Ganges, where he might spend his life in worship and wash away his sins three times a day in the holy stream. The youngest son, Bhuledhan, was quite a boy at the time of his father's death and took what share his brothers chose to give him and they do not seem to have treated him badly.[1][7][8][9][11][12]
The law of primogeniture did not exist among the family and every son, as he grew up and married, claimed his right to a separate share of his father's inheritance and thus the ancestral estate constantly dwindled as fresh slices were cut off it, till at last the whole family were a set of impoverished gentlemen, who kept up none of the dignity which had belonged to the first conquerors, Bhagay Singh and his sons. For six generations they stagnated thus, no important event marking their history till the time of Hira Singh. The family property in his time had grown very small and he had five sons to divide it amongst and to add to his misfortunes, he was accused of some crime, thrown into prison at Faizabad and loaded with chains. With the chains on his legs he escaped, arrived safely at Sarosi and lay in hiding there. His pride being thus broken, he resolved to send his third son, Kalandar Singh, to take service in the company's army. He rose to be Subedar-major in the 49th Regiment of Native Infantry and in this position, through his supposed influence with the Resident, became a very considerable man. He knew that as long as he was at hand, no chakladar or governor would venture to treat the Parihar zamindars with injustice but on his death they would be again at the mercy of the local authorities. He therefore collected all the members of the brotherhood who were descended from Asis and persuaded them to mass their divided holdings nominally into one large estate, of which his nephew Gulab Singh should be the representative talukdar; so that while in reality each small shareholder retained sole possession of his own share, they should present the appearance of a powerful and united taluk, making Gulab Singh their nominal head. Thus the chakladars would be afraid to touch a man who seemed to hold so large an estate, though in reality he only enjoyed a small portion of it. The brotherhood consented to this and from 1840 till British annexation the estate was held in the name of Gulab Singh alone and they had no further trouble from the oppressions of the chakladars.[1][7][8][9][11][12]
Uniting the possessions of different branches of the Parihar Rajputs into a considerable estate by Gulab Singh of Sarosi in 1840 during the reign of Muhammad Ali Shah (1837-42).[5] Chaudhri Gulab Singh of Sarosi, nominal head of the Parihars and was succeeded by his son Chaudhri Fateh Bahadur Singh.[7][2] Later, the estate was ruled by Chaudhri Chandan Singh, who was succeeded by Chaudhri Kewal Singh.[6][13] After India's independence on 15 August 1947, Sarosi (Taluq) estate was merged in Dominion of India and later Republic of India. Chaudhri Kewal Singh, the last ruler of Sarosi, served as an MLC.
List of Rulers[edit]
The rulers of Sarosi bore the title of Chaudhri. The list of rulers is following as:[11][12]
- Chaudhri Bhagay Singh
- Chaudhri Asis Sah
- Chaudhri Sakat Singh
- Chaudhri Mangal Sah
- Chaudhri Dipchand Singh
- Chaudhri Zorawar Singh
- Chaudhri Jindh Sah
- Chaudhri Hira Singh
- Chaudhri Pancham Singh
- Chaudhri Gulab Singh
- Chaudhri Fateh Bahadur Singh
- Chaudhri Chandan Singh
- Chaudhri Kewal Singh
- Chaudhri Veer Pal Singh
- Chaudhri Rajesh Singh
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Imperial Gazetteer of India. 1881. pp. 335–337. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ali, Darogah Haji Abbas (1880). An illustrated historical album of the Rajas and Taaluqdars of Oudh. Getty Research Institute. Allahabad : North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press. pp. 63–64. Search this book on
- ↑ Oudh (India), United Provinces of Agra and; Lal, Chhail Bihari (1921). The Taluqdari Law of Oudh: Being a Commentary on the Oudh Estates Act as Amended Up-to-date ... Pioneer Press. p. 566. Search this book on
- ↑ Oudh (India), United Provinces of Agra and (1923). District Gazetteers. Government Press. p. 239. Search this book on
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Amar Singh Baghel (1979). Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Unnao. Lucknow, Department of District Gazetteers. p. 36. Search this book on
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Digital Library Of India. List Of Taluqdars In Oudh. p. 6. Search this book on
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Oudh (India) (1878). Gazetteer of the Province of Oudh ...: N-Z. Printed at the Oudh government Press. pp. 334–535. Search this book on
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: H.R. Nevill (1903). Unnao: a Gazetteer being volume XXXVIII of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Allahabad, Superintendent, Government Press. pp. 241–243. Search this book on
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Hunter, William Wilson (1881). Rangoon to Tappal. Trübner. Search this book on
- ↑ Crooke, William (1896). The Tribes and Castes of the North-western Provinces and Oudh. Office of the superintendent of government printing. p. 135. Search this book on
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sherring, M. (2023-03-24). Hindu Tribes and Castes: Vol. I. BoD – Books on Demand. pp. 153–155. ISBN 978-3-382-14920-8. Search this book on
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Elliott, Sir Charles Alfred (1862). The Chronicles of Oonao: A District in Oudh. Printed at the Allahabad Mission Press. pp. 58–60. Search this book on
- ↑ "Search By Taluqdars". 2012-05-10. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2023-12-15. Unknown parameter
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