Kintoor

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Kintoor or Kintur is a village distant 10 miles north-east of Badosarai in Barabanki district famous for battle of Kintoor of 1858 during Indian Mutiny.[1][2]

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[edit] History

Kintoor is named after Kunti, the mother of Pandav, as per the ancient sayings. Initially its name was Kuntapur.[3]

[edit] Mahabahrat era

Parijaat tree a sacred baobab tree in the village of Kintoor on the banks of Ghaghra.[4] Near a temple (known as Kunteshwar Mahadev temple) established by Kunti, is a special tree called Parijaat which is said to grow from Kunti's ashes.[5] Historically, though these saying may have some bearing or not, but it is true that this tree is from a very ancient background.[6]

[edit] Battle of Kintoor

Battle of Kintoor
Part of the Indian Mutiny
Date October 6, 1858
Location Kintoor
Result British victory
Belligerents
East India Company
Kapurthala State		 Rebel Sepoys
Commanders and leaders
Major A.Hume commanding 1st European Bengal Fusiliers
Rajah of Kappurthullah commanding Kappurthullah contingent		 Collector Darakhaje
Collector Abid Khan
Major-General Abson Khan
Mohamed Ameer Khan
Strength
1st Bengal Fusiliers, 150 rank and file; 2nd Company 3rd battalion Artillery, two 9-ponder guns; Hodson's Horse, 56 sabres; Oude Military Police Cavalry, 200 sabres;
Kappurthullah Contingent:- Artilllery, five 8-pounder, three 6-ponderguns; Cavalary, 124 sabres; Infantry, 650 rank and file		 3,000 infantry
200–300 cavalry
4 guns
Casualties and losses
4 wounded
1 horse killed, 7 wounded		 450 killed

Battle of Kintoor was a conflict between rebel sepoys and troops East India Company and Kapurthala State on October 6, 1858 during Indian Mutiny.[1][7]

[edit] Nishapuri Sada'at of Barabanki

The Nishapuri Sada'at (Sayeds) of Barabanki (and adjoining areas of Kintoor, Fatehpur, Jarwal and Lucknow). They are Kazmi or Musavi Sayeds; that is they claim descent from the Prophet through his daughter's line and the line of the seventh Imam of the Shi'a Muslims, Musa al-Kazem. They came in India originally from Nishapur a town near Mashhad in northeastern Iran.[8] Two brothers Sayed Sharafu'd-Din and Sayed Muhammed in 14th century forsaked Nishapur, Iran for Awadh, India in the time of Hulagu Khan the Il-Khanid Mongol ruler.[9] Sayed Alauddin Kazmi have said to be accompanied these two brothers in their movement from Iran, he later moved to Tehsil Fatehpur. The grave of Sayed Alauddin Kazmi is situated in Kintoor. The Kazmis of Fatehpur are his descendants. These Nishapuri Sayeds of Kintoor spread to adjoining localities of Barabanki e.g. Fatehpur, and even to neighbouring districts e.g. Jarwal in Bahraich district and in Lucknow. These Nishapuri Sayeds produced several outstanding Shia Muslim religious scholars in 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.[10]

[edit] Abaqati family

One branch of the Nishapuri Kintoori Sayeds took root in Lucknow. The most famous of Kintoori Sayeds is Ayatollah Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi, author of work entitled Abaqat al Anwar; the first word in the title of this work provided his descendantswith the nisba (title) they still bear, Abaqati.[8] Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati Agha Roohi, a Lucknow based cleric is from the family of Nishapuri Kintoori Sayeds and uses title Abaqati.

[edit] Khomeini family

Towards the end of the 18th century the ancestors of the Supreme Leader of the Iranian Revolution, Ruhollah Khomeini had migrated from their original home in Nishapur, Iran to the kingdom of Oudh in northern India whose rulers were Twelver Shia Muslims of Persian origin[11][12]; they settled in the town of Kintoor.[13][14][15][16] Ayatollah Khomeini's paternal grandfather, Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi, was born in Kintoor, he was a contemporary and relative of the famous scholar Ayatollah Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi.[14][16] He left Lucknow in the middle of 19th century on pilgrimage to the tomb of Imam Ali in Najaf, Iraq and never returned.[13][16] According to Moin this movement was to escape colonial rule of British Raj in India.[17] He visited Iran in 1834 and settled down in Khomein in 1839.[14] Although he stayed and settled in Iran, he continued to be known as Hindi, even Ruhollah Khomeini used Hindi as pen name in some of his ghazals.[13] Also Ruhollah's brother was known by name Nureddin Hindi.[16]

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Royalty

ruler of Kintoor, was active in the First War of Indian Independence against the British Raj.[18][19]

[edit] Literary

[edit] Urdu/Persian (19th century)

in fourteenth century forsaken Iran for Awadh in the time of Hulagu the II-Khanid Mongol ruler. The Nishapuri Sayyids of Kintoor produced several outstanding Shi‘i religious scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[8][20]
in fourteenth century forsaken Iran for Awadh in the time of Hulagu the II-Khanid Mongol ruler. The Nishapuri Sayyids of Kintoor produced several outstanding Shi‘i religious scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[8][20]
author of books Kashf al-hujub wa'l-astar `an al-kutub wa'l-asfar; A'inah-'i haqq-nama; Shudhur al-`iqyan fi tarajim al-a`yan, 2 vols. A'inah," a primary source is Kintoori's biographical dictionary of Shi‘i ulama, an extremely useful source, remains in manuscript and has not been used by writers on Imami Shi‘ism in the West.[20][21][22]
principal Sadr Amin at the British court in Meerut. He was also author of Tathir al-mu'minin 'an najasat al-mushrikin.[20][22][23]
son of Mufti Syed Quli Khan Kintoori author of book Abaqat ul Anwar fi Imamat al Ai'imma al-Athar.[8][20][24][25][26]
  • Qazi Mahmud Kintoori author of Mirat i Madari.[27]

[edit] Urdu/Persian (20th century)

was a religious scholar (a Mujtahid), a physician, a pharmacologist and an alchemist.[28][29]

[edit] Others

was paternal grandfather of Ayatollah Khomeini. He was born in Kintoor. He left India in about 1830 to make a pilgrimage to the shrine city of Najaf in present-day Iraq, and to study at one of its famous seminaries and never returned.[8][14][15][16]
cousin of Syed Hamid Husain Kintoori, was the daroghah of Awadh.[20]

[edit] Attractions

Parijat tree at Kintoor, Barabanki


  • D:\Moharram kantoor\2010 foto

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Bulletins and other state intelligence, Part 1
  2. ^ a b c http://barabanki.nic.in/places.htm
  3. ^ http://kvbarabanki.org.in/places
  4. ^ a b Wickens, Gerald E.; Pat Lowe (2008). The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia. Springer Science+Business Media. p. 61. ISBN 9781402064302. 
  5. ^ a b Kameshwar, G. (2006). Bend in the Sarayu: a soota chronicle. Rupa & Co.. p. 159. ISBN 9788129109422. 
  6. ^ Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Bara Banki. Government of Uttar Pradesh. 1993. p. 21. OCLC 7625267. 
  7. ^ House of Commons papers, Volume 43 By Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
  8. ^ a b c d e f Islam, politics, and social movements By Edmund Burke, Ervand Abrahamian, Ira M. Lapidus
  9. ^ Muhammad ‘Ali Kashmiri, Nujumas-sama ' fi tarajimal-‘ulama ' (Lucknow: Matbac-i Jacfari, 1302/1884-85), p. 420.
  10. ^ Sufi cults and the evolution of medieval Indian culture, Anup Taneja, Indian Council of Historical Researchh in association with Northern Book Centre, 2003
  11. ^ Sacred space and holy war: the politics, culture and history of Shi'ite Islam By Juan Ricardo Cole
  12. ^ Art and culture: endeavours in interpretation By Ahsan Jan Qaisar,Som Prakash Verma,Mohammad Habib
  13. ^ a b c Ruhollah Khomeini's brief biography by Hamid Algar
  14. ^ a b c d From Khomein, A biography of the Ayatollah, June 14, 1999, The Iranian
  15. ^ a b The Columbia world dictionary of Islamism By Olivier Roy, Antoine Sfeir
  16. ^ a b c d e Khomeini: life of the Ayatollah, Volume 1999 By Baqer Moin
  17. ^ Moin 2000, p. 18
  18. ^ Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722–1859; Shi‘is and the Revolt in Awadh, 1857–1859, #274
  19. ^ INDIA-ROYALTY-L Archives, Raja Mir Imdad Ali Khan of Kintur
  20. ^ a b c d e f Roots of North Indian Shi‘ism in Iran and Iraq Religion and State in Awadh, 1722–1859, by J. R. I. Cole, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford
  21. ^ The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Islamic Sciences, Bihar al-Anwar
  22. ^ a b Sacred Space and Holy War The Politics, Culture and History of Shi`ite Islam by Juan Cole, I.B.Tauris Publishers, LONDON 􀆔 NEW YORK
  23. ^ Dar al-Kitab Jazayeri
  24. ^ Leader of Heaven #18
  25. ^ Mir Hamid Hussain and his famous piece Abaqat al-anwar
  26. ^ GHADEER-E-KHUM WHERE THE RELIGION WAS BROUGHT TO PERFECTION By I.H. Najafi, Published By A GROUP OF MUSLIM BROTHERS, NEW ADDRESS P. 0. Box No. 11365- 1545, Tehran – IRAN.
  27. ^ Persian Literature – A Biobibliographical Survey ..., Volume 1, Part 2 By C. A. Storey
  28. ^ Dictionary of Indo-Persian literature By Nabi Hadi, #199
  29. ^ Hazrat Abbas (A.S.) and the Infallible Imams (A.S.), Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (a.s.) on his uncle Abbas (a.s.)

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