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Rohilkhand & Katehar · Upper Indus–Gangetic Plain
छोटी-छोटी बातें
- A region named after immigrantsRohilkhand is the land of the Rohillas — Pashtuns from the hill country of eastern Afghanistan who settled here through the eighteenth century, took over an existing Katehriya Rajput countryside, and gave the whole plain their name within two generations.
- A library older than the state that kept itRampur's Raza Library was founded in 1774, the same year the Rohilla state was destroyed. The princely remnant spent the next century and a half buying manuscripts, and the result is one of the great collections of Islamic and Indic texts anywhere.
- The lineage that left Rampur and reached the worldAllauddin Khan came to Rampur to study with Wazir Khan, the court's Senia instrumentalist. He then founded the Maihar tradition and taught Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar. Most of what the world heard as Indian classical music in the twentieth century runs back through a Rampur court appointment.
- Two towns, two IslamsBareilly and Deoband are about 250 km apart on the same plain, and the two schools of South Asian Sunni thought that take their names from them have been arguing since the 1880s. Both are exported worldwide; both remain headquartered in small north Indian towns.
- Scorpions that do not stingAt the Shah Wilayat dargah in Amroha, visitors are handed scorpions from the shrine precinct on the understanding that they will not sting inside it. The claim is very old, entirely local, and repeated by people of both faiths.
- Most of India's flutes come from one townPilibhit makes the great majority of the bamboo flutes played in India, from bamboo shipped in from Assam and Kerala. Each hole is burnt and filed by hand and each flute tuned individually, which is why they are sold by pitch rather than by size.
- A dish shared with Kashmir and nowhere in betweenShab deg — turnip and meat cooked overnight in a sealed pot — is made in Rampur and in the Kashmir Valley and essentially nowhere on the plain between them. It is a leftover of the two courts' relationship, preserved as a winter dish.
- Shoes thrown at a colonial officer, every year sinceShahjahanpur's Laat Sahab procession puts a figure representing a colonial Lieutenant Governor on a buffalo cart and lets the city pelt him with footwear. The empire has been gone for nearly eighty years; the procession has not.
- A swamp turned into a granaryThe terai was malarial forest until the 1950s. DDT spraying, land grants to Sikh farming families displaced in 1947, and the founding of Pantnagar university turned it into one of the most productive agricultural belts in India within twenty years — and reduced the Tharu and Buksa to a minority in their own country.
- Brass, and what happened to itMoradabad's brass industry now works largely in aluminium, iron and mixed metals for export, because Western buyers wanted different finishes and lower prices. The engraving skills stayed; the metal changed.
Rohilkhand & Katehar की छोटी-छोटी स्थानीय बातें — रीति-रिवाज़, अनोखी आदतें और वे चीज़ें जो किसी गाइडबुक में नहीं मिलतीं। (10)