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Little pieces from Indian history :-
Quite pretty from a distance, I don't much like it close-up, though ...
(there's a bigger, and better, picture through this one ...)
And, another at - http://in.news.yahoo.com/070709/48/6hv4j.html ...
150 years on, village keeps date with history
By IE, Tuesday July 10, 12:16 AM
DURING the uprising of 1857 against the British Raj, six soldiers attached with the Maratha Regiment made a failed attempt to capture the British armoury in Ahmedabad. Among those who died fighting the Crown's soldiers was Ratnaji Thakur of Tajpur village, situated 20 kms from Ahmedabad. The village stumbled upon its mutinous roots, written in stone, in 2001, and since then it has been holding a programme in memory of the mutiny. The completion of 150 years since the revolt was commemorated by the village's primary school students on Monday in a programme attended by Health Minister Ashok Bhatt and Agriculture Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasma.
In 2001, members of the Khadiya Itihaas Samiti had found four memorial stones in the dried-up Padiya lakebed near the village. Dr Bharti Shelat, former director of the BJ Institute of Learning and Research, Ahmedabad, helped decipher the Mughal inscriptions on the memorial stones, which were found to state: "Ratnaji Thakur of Tajpur village died during a clash with the British regime on July 9, 1857."
"The clash with the Maratha regiment was only the first of four rebellions which broke out in Gujarat during the mutiny of 1857," says Ashutosh Bhatt, secretary of Khadiya Itihaas Samiti. Bhatt also attended Monday's function to mark 150 years of the revolt.
"Ratnaji Thakur had hatched a plan to capture the British armoury in Ahmedabad, but his small regiment failed against the might of the British empire. In the ensuing battle at Tajpur, Thakur and another soldier died fighting Captain Taylor and Captain Palm who had cornered them. Four other soldiers surrendered and were later hanged to death," he added.
Soon after the discovery, a memorial was constructed by the Samit in 2001. Since then, the village has been holding an annual programme at the primary school in memory of the martyr. The programme is presided over by state ministers. In the Gujarat uprising, 18 soldiers of the Awadh and Maratha regiments were shot by cannons in Shahibaug, 85 soldiers of then Baroda ruler's army were hanged in Pratappura, and several priests including the mahanta of the Vitthal temple were imprisoned after their rebellions were thwarted by the British regime.
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Little pieces from Indian history :-
Quite pretty from a distance, I don't much like it close-up, though ...
(there's a bigger, and better, picture through this one ...)
And, another at - http://in.news.yahoo.com/070709/48/6hv4
150 years on, village keeps date with history
By IE, Tuesday July 10, 12:16 AM
DURING the uprising of 1857 against the British Raj, six soldiers attached with the Maratha Regiment made a failed attempt to capture the British armoury in Ahmedabad. Among those who died fighting the Crown's soldiers was Ratnaji Thakur of Tajpur village, situated 20 kms from Ahmedabad. The village stumbled upon its mutinous roots, written in stone, in 2001, and since then it has been holding a programme in memory of the mutiny. The completion of 150 years since the revolt was commemorated by the village's primary school students on Monday in a programme attended by Health Minister Ashok Bhatt and Agriculture Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasma.
In 2001, members of the Khadiya Itihaas Samiti had found four memorial stones in the dried-up Padiya lakebed near the village. Dr Bharti Shelat, former director of the BJ Institute of Learning and Research, Ahmedabad, helped decipher the Mughal inscriptions on the memorial stones, which were found to state: "Ratnaji Thakur of Tajpur village died during a clash with the British regime on July 9, 1857."
"The clash with the Maratha regiment was only the first of four rebellions which broke out in Gujarat during the mutiny of 1857," says Ashutosh Bhatt, secretary of Khadiya Itihaas Samiti. Bhatt also attended Monday's function to mark 150 years of the revolt.
"Ratnaji Thakur had hatched a plan to capture the British armoury in Ahmedabad, but his small regiment failed against the might of the British empire. In the ensuing battle at Tajpur, Thakur and another soldier died fighting Captain Taylor and Captain Palm who had cornered them. Four other soldiers surrendered and were later hanged to death," he added.
Soon after the discovery, a memorial was constructed by the Samit in 2001. Since then, the village has been holding an annual programme at the primary school in memory of the martyr. The programme is presided over by state ministers. In the Gujarat uprising, 18 soldiers of the Awadh and Maratha regiments were shot by cannons in Shahibaug, 85 soldiers of then Baroda ruler's army were hanged in Pratappura, and several priests including the mahanta of the Vitthal temple were imprisoned after their rebellions were thwarted by the British regime.
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