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'''Sengar''' are a clan of [[Rajput]]s.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India |first=Eric |last=Stokes |authorlink=Eric Stokes |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1980 |isbn=9780521297707 |page=78}}</ref> They are mainly found in [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Bihar]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]] states of [[India]].{{cn|date=January 2013}} |
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| '''Origins''' |
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| [[Etawah (UP)]], [[Ballia (UP)]], [[Kannauj (UP)]], [[Jalaun (UP)]], [[Orai (UP)]], [[Gwalior (MP)]], [[Kirauli (Rajasthan)]], [[some parts of Bihar and MP]] |
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| '''[[Princely states]]:''' |
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| [[Sarawan]], [[Jagmanpur (Jalon)]], [[Bhareh (Etawah)]], [[Lakhnesar (Balia)]], [[Rura (UP)]], [[Ruruganj (UP)]], [[Datia (MP)]], [[Rewa (MP)]] |
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'''Sengar''' are a clan of [[Rajput]]s. One of the 36 clan Rajput [[Kshatriya]], they are mainly found in [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Bihar]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]] states of [[India]].<ref>A Handbook on Rajputs by A H Bingley</ref> |
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== Origin == |
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The exact vansh{{what|date=August 2012}} of Sengar is [[Rishivansh]] which is also known as Brahma Kshatriya. According to an ancient story father of Lord Rama, Raja Dashrath had given his daughter 'SHANTA' in marriage to Maharishi Shringi. The vansh created from that marriage is Sengar rajput. Possible derivation of the 'Sengar' name is (apart from 'Sringi' rishi) from 'Chattis-kul-Singar'(some name as Singraur)(the ornament or grand focal point of 36 kshtriya kul), a term often used by bards in praising the ruler. On his visit to the royal court or to a feudal lord, he recited the family's genealogy and also the deeds of the ruler's forefathers. In Mewar, along with other forms of glorification, a bard used terms such as Hindua Suraj (Sun amongst the Hindus), Gau Brahman Pratipal (Protector of Cows and Brahmans), and Chattis-kul-Singar (Ornament Amongst the 36 Rulers). Not only was this visit meant to keep the ruler informed about the good deeds of his ancestors but also a message that he should also follow suit. After reciting all these exaltations, he would bless the ruler, then take his seat in the Durbar. The traditions of the clan then interpose a period extending over some 135 generations, during which the clan emigrated first to Ceylon (Shri Lanka), thence to Malwa, and finally settled at Kanat in Jalaun, where was about 1065 A.D.Bisukh Deo, or Sukh Deo, the founder of the fortunes of the Sengar house,"he married Deo Kali, daughter of Jaichand, the last Rathur Raja of Kannuj" And after his defeat by Shahbuddin Ghori in the year 1193 A.D. the power of the Sengar increased and the river Basindh was renamed Sengar in their honour. ( Source: Cooke's Tribes and Caste of N.W.P., Gazetteer for the Etawah District). |
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After the fall of the kingdom of Kannuj, the Sengars under Bisukh Deo occupied the Eastern parganas of Etawah (Source:Vide Manual of Titles, Page 64, 1917 Edition) "Bisukh Deo was succeeded by Asajit, and he by Madan Deo, next came Ratahra Deo, and then singi Deo. The last had two wives, the one Chauhanin of Etawa, by whom he had Harjad Deo, the ancestor of the Bharah Rajas, and the other a Gaurani (Gaur lady) by whom he had six sons, from whom descended the Sengar Rajas of Patti Nakkat, Puri Dhar, Ruru, The Rao of Kakaotu and the Rawat of Kursi." (Source: Vide Gazetter N.W.P. Vol. IV, Part I, (Agra Division) page 276, 1878 Edition). "At any rate, the Sengar occupation of the south-eastern part of the district may with accuracy be dated in the early part of the 12th century A.D., when like the Chauhans, the clan drove out the Meos and took possession of the tract" (Source: Vide U.P. Gazatter Vol XI, page 69, 1911 Edition) |
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The area of [[Lateri]] in present-day Madhya Pradesh was once ruled by the Sengars, whose livelihood was derived primarily from looting and plundering and was reflected in the name of their capital, Looteri.<ref>{{cite book |title=Marketing in an Agricultural Region: A Geographical Study of Periodic Markets in Vidisha Plateau, Madhya Pradesh |first=Ajit Kumar |last=Jain |publisher=Northern Book Centre |year=1993 |isbn=9788172110345 |page=12}}</ref> In what is now Uttar Pradesh, the principal town of the Lakhnesar [[pargana]] during the medieval period was [[Rasra]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Territorial Basis of Medieval Town and Village Settlement in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India |first=Kashi N. |last=Singh |journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers |volume=58 |issue=2 |date=June 1968 |pages=203-220 |jstor=2561611}} {{subscription required}}</ref> When the Sengars opposed British activities in 1812, Colonel Martindell came with a troupe of [[sepoy]]s to quell them, but the Sengars attacked the marching sepoys on [[Great Deccan Road]] and several sepoys were killed. The Senegars then plundered the area.<ref name=siddiqui> {{cite book |last1=Siddiqui |first1=A.U. |title=Indian Freedom Movement in Princely States of Vindhya Pradesh |url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_Ps1_lvyBxMC&pg=PA33&dq=sengar+loot&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T6n_UKa3DMLprAf3u4HYBQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sengar%20loot&f=false |accessdate=23 January 2013 |edition= |volume= |year=2004 |publisher=Northern Book Centre |location=New Delhi |isbn=9788172111502 |page=33 }}</ref> This act of attacking British forces by Sengars is categorised as a part of freedom movement.<ref name=siddiqui/> |
The area of [[Lateri]] in present-day Madhya Pradesh was once ruled by the Sengars, whose livelihood was derived primarily from looting and plundering and was reflected in the name of their capital, Looteri.<ref>{{cite book |title=Marketing in an Agricultural Region: A Geographical Study of Periodic Markets in Vidisha Plateau, Madhya Pradesh |first=Ajit Kumar |last=Jain |publisher=Northern Book Centre |year=1993 |isbn=9788172110345 |page=12}}</ref> In what is now Uttar Pradesh, the principal town of the Lakhnesar [[pargana]] during the medieval period was [[Rasra]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Territorial Basis of Medieval Town and Village Settlement in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India |first=Kashi N. |last=Singh |journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers |volume=58 |issue=2 |date=June 1968 |pages=203-220 |jstor=2561611}} {{subscription required}}</ref> When the Sengars opposed British activities in 1812, Colonel Martindell came with a troupe of [[sepoy]]s to quell them, but the Sengars attacked the marching sepoys on [[Great Deccan Road]] and several sepoys were killed. The Senegars then plundered the area.<ref name=siddiqui> {{cite book |last1=Siddiqui |first1=A.U. |title=Indian Freedom Movement in Princely States of Vindhya Pradesh |url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_Ps1_lvyBxMC&pg=PA33&dq=sengar+loot&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T6n_UKa3DMLprAf3u4HYBQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sengar%20loot&f=false |accessdate=23 January 2013 |edition= |volume= |year=2004 |publisher=Northern Book Centre |location=New Delhi |isbn=9788172111502 |page=33 }}</ref> This act of attacking British forces by Sengars is categorised as a part of freedom movement.<ref name=siddiqui/> |
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Sengar are a clan of Rajputs.[1] They are mainly found in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh states of India.[citation needed]
The area of Lateri in present-day Madhya Pradesh was once ruled by the Sengars, whose livelihood was derived primarily from looting and plundering and was reflected in the name of their capital, Looteri.[2] In what is now Uttar Pradesh, the principal town of the Lakhnesar pargana during the medieval period was Rasra.[3] When the Sengars opposed British activities in 1812, Colonel Martindell came with a troupe of sepoys to quell them, but the Sengars attacked the marching sepoys on Great Deccan Road and several sepoys were killed. The Senegars then plundered the area.[4] This act of attacking British forces by Sengars is categorised as a part of freedom movement.[4]
In eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Bundelkhand, an area that is now split between the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, the Sengars were among those communities that practised infanticide and, in particular, female infanticide.[5]
References
- ^ Stokes, Eric (1980). The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press. p. 78. ISBN 9780521297707.
- ^ Jain, Ajit Kumar (1993). Marketing in an Agricultural Region: A Geographical Study of Periodic Markets in Vidisha Plateau, Madhya Pradesh. Northern Book Centre. p. 12. ISBN 9788172110345.
- ^ Singh, Kashi N. (June 1968). "The Territorial Basis of Medieval Town and Village Settlement in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 58 (2): 203–220. JSTOR 2561611. (subscription required)
- ^ a b Siddiqui, A.U. (2004). Indian Freedom Movement in Princely States of Vindhya Pradesh. New Delhi: Northern Book Centre. p. 33. ISBN 9788172111502. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
- ^ Mukharya, P. S.; Shrivastava, R. C. (1990). "Cultural History of Bundelkhand during Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries". In Kusuman, K. K.; Menon, A. Sreedhara (eds.). A Panorama of Indian Culture: Professor A. Sreedhara Menon Felicitation Volume. Mittal Publications. p. 143. ISBN 9788170992141.
Further reading
- Kumar, Dharma; Desai, Meghnad, eds. (1989) [1983]. The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. 2, C.1751–C.1970 (Reprinted ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 36–40, 56. ISBN 9780521228022.
- Stokes, Eric (1975). "Agrarian Society and the Pax Britannica in Northern India in the Early Nineteenth Century". Modern Asian Studies. 9 (4). Cambridge University Press: 505–528. JSTOR 312079. (subscription required)