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Karahiya-Ghazipur ...
Village Karahiya is situated about 35 km south east of Ghazipur city and 93 km east of Varanasi city near Ganga river in district Ghazipur in state Uttar pradesh of India.
This village was established by Sikarwar rajputs and still predominantly populated by them.The population however comprises all the sections of society,and people of this village live in peaceful environment.Currently the population of this village is 12000.In northern side of this village there is holy river Ganga and railway station on southern side.On eastern side there is a village Gahmar(Its largest village of asia)and a market named Bhadaura in western side.
The most popular thing of thos village is temple of Ma Kamakhya which was established by king of sikarwar rajputs maharaj Dhamdev Singh.Ma Kamakhya devi is kuldevi of Sikarwar vansh of Rajput caste.In navaratras a large number of people come here to worship and get blessing of goddess.In village Karahiya there is a large pond nemed Sagara in the east of village.Its size is 52 bigha.It is believed as the largest pond in the district Ghazipur.On south of village there is a large archard of mango trees.It looks like a huge circle filled with trees having radius of 1 km.It to is believed as largest garden in this region.
Karahiya is also known as village of bravehearts in this region.people of this village are famous especially for their great bravery courage and unity.There is atleast one soldier from each family of this village in Indian Army.There is one I.A.S. officer and 30 PCS officers in this village.Karahiya is also famous for its talent in sahitya.In this village there was a highly popular poet named Gobar Ganesh(1941-2011) who was famous as hasya kavi in all over the world for his comedy(hasya) poems.
In this village there is a library named Jai Ram Bhawan pustakalay founded by Santraj Singh who is a former deffence scientist.J.Krishnamurti study center is also run by Santraj Singh from november to frebruary every year.In karahiya there are 5 schools,one high school one Intermediate college and a computer Institute.
Karahiya has its own value in community of 84 villages of Sikarwar Rajputs.Only village Karahiya has honour to present the turban(a symbol of respect) to host in any event of this community because this ritual was first established by highly respected person of this region Govardhan Singh of village Karahiya.
karahiya is a well educated village as there are many as there are many PCS rank officers,engineers and doctors from this village.There are 5 freedom fighters who have actively participated in war of independance of India.After independance when education was in its primary form in India at that time Jagdeesh Singh of village Karahiya was at post of Megistrate in Indian Government.In the same period principal of all colleges of surrounding region were from Karahiya, like Raghunath Singh of Gahmar Inter college,Banshraj Singh of Adarsh Inter college Dildarnagar and Ramashankar Singh of Nauli Inter college Nauli.
This village is electrified and well connected by both rail and road .There is availability of networks of most of the telecommunication companies.In Karahiya there is availability of tap water provided by JAL NIGAM BOARD OF INDIA.
For Information visit the link http://hdkarahiya.blogspot.com
References
[edit]book- 'Dham Dev Pra-Deepika'
External links
[edit]http://www.ghazipur.nic.in http://www.indiastudychannel.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazipur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikarwar