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DICTIONARY OF MARTYRS INDIA’S FREEDOM STRUGGLE (1857-1947) ii Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) Vol. 2, Part II(L-Z) DICTIONARY OF MARTYRSMARTYRS INDIA’S FREEDOM STRUGGLE (1857-1947) Vol. 2 Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Jammu & Kashmir (1857-1947) Part II (L-Z) General Editor Basudev Chatterji Chairman, ICHR Executive Editor Ishrat Alam Research Consultant Amit Kumar Gupta Research and Editorial Team Ashfaque Ali Rajesh Kumar Md. Naushad Ali Kh. Premjit Singh Published by INDIAN COUNCIL OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH in association with MANAK PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD iv Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) Vol. 2, Part II(L-Z) Project of INDIAN COUNCIL OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH and MINISTRY OF CULTURE, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA First Edition 2013 Published by INDIAN COUNCIL OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH 35, FEROZESHAH ROAD, NEW DELHI - 110 001 in association with MANAK PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD B-7, Saraswati Complex, Subhash Chowk, Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi 110092 INDIA Phone: 22453894, 22042529 Email: [email protected] [email protected] USA Office 8145 KOLB AVE, ALLEN PARK, M.I. 48101 USA Email: [email protected] All rights reserved © ICHR, 2013 No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. ISBN 978-93-7831-338-7 (Part I) ISBN 978-93-7831-339-4 (Part II) Laser Typeset by TABREZ ALI, Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi Printed in India by Nice Printing Press, New Delhi FROM THE GENERAL EDITOR I have great pleasure in placing before the reading public Part I [A to K] and Part II [L to Z] of Volume 2 of the Dictionary of Martyrs. The background of this Project, undertaken at the request of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, as well as its scope, sources, methodology and format have been outlined in the General Editorís Note at the beginning of Part I of the Volume 1. Volume 2 brings up the data available on a vast region now known as Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Jammu & Kashmir between 1857 and 1947 ñ the whole of the period of the Indian freedom struggle. Our Research Team has tried very hard to gather as many names as possible of those who died while participating in such movements, organizations and incidents as the Uprising of 1857, the tribal resistances, the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation movements, the Civil Disobedience movement, the Revolutionary movement, the Peasantsí and the Workersí movement, the Praja Mandal movement (for responsible government in the Princely States), the Individual Satyagraha, the ìQuit Indiaî movement, and the movements for the Indian Legion, the Indian Independence League and the Indian National Army. In its search for the hitherto unknown martyrs, our Research Team has come across a number of significant incidents like the Neemuchana Tragedy in Alwar, Bijolia Kisan Satyagraha in earstwhile Udaipur (Mewar) State, Charanpaduka Kisan Agitation in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, and other similar Kisan struggles against the high rates of land taxes and socially exploitative forced labour and other cesses in these regions. The entries include, where available, information regarding the date, year, place of birth, place of residence and occupation of the martyrs. For writing about them and to authenticate their martyrdom from the primary sources ( including archival documents, official and non-official), the Research Team (over and above its regular visits to the National Archives of India and Nehru Memorial Library and Museum, New Delhi) has undertaken various trips to different State Archives, such as the Uttar Pradesh State Archives, Lucknow and Allahabad; the Madhya Pradesh State Archives and the branch of the National Archives of India, Bhopal; the Rajasthan State Archives, Bikaner; and the Jammu and Kashmir State Archives, Jammu and Srinagar. At the same time, I also wish to express my thanks to vi Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) Vol. 2, Part II(L-Z) the staffs of these archives and libraries for offering their kind cooperation to our Research Team. While consulting archival sources in the Regional Archives at Allahabad, the Research Team came across thousands of files relating to the participants and proceedings of the 1857 Uprising that have not been explored or consulted on a larger scale, and are unfortunately getting moth-eaten. Also, it found from the Mutiny Papers on 1857 Uprising, available at the National Archives of India branch, Bhopal, that the people of the State actively joined the Uprising, contrary to the general belief, and despite their rulerís loyalty to the British. The team has also been able to refer to various valuable sources in the Madhya Pradesh State Archives (Bhopal), particularly contemporary newspapers, such as Akhbar-i Gwalior (specifically to the Uprising of 1857) and The Jayaji Pratap which have been rather inadequately used by historians. In the Rajasthan State Archives, Bikaner, apart from such scarcely consulted newspapers (Tarun Rajasthan, Naveen Rajasthan, Princely India, Sainik, Ganesh, etc.), our researchers also have managed to consult the Neemuchana police firing files containing a little over a hundred names of martyrs. (The secondary writings covering this incident, put the number at1500). Further, in the Jammu and Kashmir Archives our researchers have succeeded in consulting two important official reports, namely, Glancy Commission Report and MM Committee Report, apart from the Home Department files preserved there. It has been the endeavour of our Research Team to make the Dictionary as inclusive as possible and to cover telescopically the very widespread participation of almost all the segments of Indian society. Consequently, our search has perhaps managed to bring into focus the obscured, the undiscovered and the forgotten (especially from the lower stratas of societies) into the annals of Indiaís Freedom struggle. Of course, a work of this nature can never claim to be absolutely complete or final. We may find omissions which need to be taken note of, and a supplementary volume towards that end is part of the Project plan. Professor Amit Kumar Gupta and his team of researchers ñ Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Mr. Ashfaque Ali, Dr. Md. Naushad Ali, Dr. Khawairakpam Premjit Singh and Dr. Md. Shakeeb Athar ñ have put in enormous labours and done an admirable job in researching and preparing Part I and Part II of Volume 2 for the Press. My special thanks to them as also to Mr. Ashok Kumar and Mr. Jaipal Bhoj who prepared the digital material for the Press. I should like to thank Dr. Ishrat Alam, Member Secretary and Executive Editor, and Dr. S.M. Mishra, Coordinator for efficiently taking care of all the administrative aspects for facilitating the work of the Project. I am also indebted to Professor V.K. Vashistha for his undertaking as an Expert the onerous task of going through a lengthy typescript so meticulously, suggesting some improvements in it and also adding a few more names. I should also like to thank my historian colleagues who agreed to sit on the Advisory Committee (Professors Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Mushirul Hasan, Arjun Dev, N. Rajendran, Subhas R. Chakraborty, Indu Banga, T.R. Ghoble, V. Raghottam, From the General Editor vii V. Ramakrishna, Swaraj Basu). Finally, thanks are due to the Secretary, Smt. Sangita Gairola, and the Joint Secretaries, Shri Sanjiv Mittal and Shri Promod Jain, as well as the Director, Shri Kanwar Sameer Lather in the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, for their consistently supportive role in this project. Basudev Chatterji viii Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) Vol. 2, Part II(L-Z) ABBREVIATIONS Archival Records Abhud. : Abhyudaya (Hindi Weekly, Allahabad), NMM&L Abst. : Abstract Acc No. : Accession Number AG : Akhbar-e Gwalior (1858-59), MPSAB AISPC : All India Statesí Peopleís Conference b/o : Brother of Capt. : Captain Coll : Collection Cons : Consultations CRR : Crown Representative Records d/o : daughter of DCP : Delhi Conspiracy Case, Trial No.6 of 1914, Proceedings/ Judgement, NAI Deptt. : Department distt. : district Div : Division DUA : Dehli Urdu Akhbar (1857), NAI F No/Nos : File Number/Numbers F/Poll ñ Proc. : Foreign Political ñ Crown Proceedings (Consultation) F/Poll (Sec Cons) : Foreign Political (Secret Consultation) FR : Fortnightly Report(s) x Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) Vol. 2, Part II(L-Z) GCR : Glancy Commission Report H/Deptt. : Home Department H/Judl. : Home Judicial HSAP : Haryana State Archives, Panchkula HT : The Hindustan Times (1946), NMM&L INA : Indian National Army J&KSA : Jammu & Kashmir State Archives, Jammu and Srinagar JDR : Jubbulpore [Jabalpur] Division Records JPP : Jiyaji Pratap Paper, MPSAB Jud : Judgment Judl : Judicial Lieut. : Lieutenant m/o : mother of Mil : Military MMCR : MM Committee Report, J&KSA MPSAB : Madhya Pradesh State Archives, Bhopal MSAB : Maharashtra State Archives, Bombay/Mumbai NAI : National Archives of India, New Delhi NAIB : National Archives of India, Bhopal NMM&L : Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi NR : Naveen Rajasthan (Hindi Weekly), 1920-34, RSAB NWP : North-Western Provinces P.O. : Post Office P.S. : Police Station PA : Private Archives PCJ Paper : Phool Chand Jain Papers PP (Mutiny) : Parliamentary Papers (Mutiny) PP : Prajamandal Papers Princely India : Princely India (Weekly), 1926-27, RSAB Proc. : Proceedings Abbreviations xi Pt : Part Ptp. : Pratap (Hindi Weekly), Kanpur Rajasthan : Rajasthan (Hindi Weekly), 1922-24, RSAB RAR : Rajputana Agency Records RSAB : Rajasthan State Archives, Bikaner Rvnu : Revenue s/o : Son of SA : Sadiq-ul Akhbar, (1857), NAI Snk : The Sainik ñ (1922), RSAB Sr. : Serial Number Srs : Series teh : tehsil TH : The Hindu (1931), NMM&L TL : Tilism-i Lakhnau, (1857), NAI TOI : The Times of India (1946), NMM&L TR : Tarun Rajasthan (Hindi Weekly), 1920-35, RSAB Tr.