Gali Nawaban

Dargah of Hafiz Rahmat Khan near Gali Nawaban

Gali Nawaban (Urdu: گلی نواباں ‎) (Royal Lane) is a street in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was the royal lane where members of the Rohilla royalty and nobility lived during the Rohilkhand empire. The palatial houses were subdivided into smaller houses over the years. Most of the Rohillas lived on Gali Nawaban at the independence of Pakistan when some migrated to Pakistan. Gali Nawaban is still inhabited by many Rohilla families and also members of other communities.

Rohillas

Rohilkhand was ruled by Rohillas with their capital in City of Bareilly until their defeat in Rohilla War of 1774–75. Rohillas took active part during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The rebellion began as a mutiny of native soldiers (sepoys) employed by the British East India Company's army against race- and religion-based injustices and inequities, on 10 May 1857. After the failure of rebellion many Rohillas were lost their lands and some were exiled. When the rebellion failed, Bareilly was subjugated. Khan Bahadur Khan was sentenced to death and hanged in the Kotwali on 24 February 1860. Many urban cities in Uttar Pradesh were experiencing economic stagnation and poverty. After the failure of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 many Rohilla Muslim Pathans from Bareilly and surrounding cities migrated to Dutch South American Colonies, now Surinam and Guyana, as indentured labour.[1] While a majority of Rohillas remained landowners and cultivators, a significant minority were also taking to western education, and entering profession such as the law and medicine. They also began to take an interest in the political debates of the last decade of the 19th Century, with some joining the newly formed Indian National Congress, while others were being attracted to pan-Islamism. This period also saw a wholesale adoption of North Indian Muslim culture, with Urdu becoming the native language of the Rohilla. In fact the term of Rohilla was being replaced with the term Pathan, which was the new self-identification. But a sense of distinct identity remained strong, with the Rohillas occupying distinct quarters in the cities, such as Gali Nawaban (home to the descendents of Hafiz Rahmat Khan), Kakar Tola and Pani Tola, in Bareilly. The intermarriage with neighbouring Muslim communities such as the Shaikh, Muslim Rajput and Kamboh started after the failure of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The at the dawn of independence, the Rohilla were still a distinct community, but all that was about to be changed by the independence of Pakistan and India. The Rohillas are now part of Urdu speaking community of North India and Pakistan.[2]

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During the war of freedom 1857 some families migrated in another parts of India from Gali Nawaban, Bareilly such as Ajmer, Village Dhakni Near Fareedpur, Bareilly, Buria State [founded by Birbal, the Nauratan of Akbar] Amroha, Agra and Mathura. After some time some families returned Gali Nawaban, Bareilly and changed their names such as Mirza Kareem Baig, family of Vilayat Husain (Subedar in Army) Baig and Inayat Husain Baig. In 1920 S.U. Zariwala, grand son of Mirza Kareem Baig migrated to Colaba, Bombay. The family of Khak Ajmeri[related Urdu Literature] was related to this Gali Nawaban. Late Mirza Ali Baig, Deewan or Chief Minister Ex-state Dhar in M.P. [at present Distt Dhar] related this Gali Nawaban. During the freedom of 1857 Mirza Muqeem Baig migrated Buria State Near Yamuna Nagar in Haryana and after that migrated to Amroha U.P. Some families migrated to hill area of Uttrakhand in 1857. All these families members were related to one large Afghan Pashtoon Pathan family of Gali Nawaban, Bareilly. At present only one Haveli was remaind of late Hamid Husain Khan, Daroga U.P. Police. It is said Nisbat (Dhee Beti ka Lenden) [relation] of this family was royal Mughal family of Delhi. In freedom war of 1857 enough persons were died of this family. At Present Mohammad Tahir (Retd. A.D.M. (F & R) and I (M.N. Siddiqui) also are the members of this large family. written by Mirza M.N. Siddiqui, Lal Masjid Amroha, Manager, Mirza Ali Baig Urf Mirza Ali Bakhsh Memorial Society and Hind P I T I Amroha Mob : 9410461033

References

  1. ↑ HISTORY OF MY PEOPLE: The Afghan Muslims of Guyana
  2. ↑ The Rise and Decline of the Ruhela by Iqbal Hussain

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