Hanuman Singh Budania
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Hanuman Singh Budania was a social worker and freedom fighter from Churu district
in Rajasthan
, India.
gotra
Jat Hindu family at village Dudhwa Khara
, a historical village in Churu district
in Rajasthan
, situated in Thar Desert
at a distance of 36 km from Churu
in north direction. The village has enticing topography and there are huge beautifully designed haveli
s. The rural life and camel
safaris in this village are worth seeing.
become the centre of freedom movement. He was in police service of princely state
of Bikaner. He was sympathetic to the people who did conspiracy against the state. This fact came to the notice of Bikaner Maharaja and he was warned on this. He left the police services of Bikaner state in 1942 to take part in the struggle for independence and joined Bikaner Rajya Praja Parishad. He spread the message of freedom movement from village to villages and made villagers member of this Parishad. He was arrested by the state and was dispossessed of his land and village. His entire family was also arrested. He sat on fast till death. When the Maharaja Bikaner learnt that the death of this freedom fighter might create problems for the state, he was released. Maharaja enticed him by offering hundred murabas (irrigated land), but he refused. During the same period there was a conference of the Indian Praja Parishads going on in Udaipur
, chaired by Jawahar Lal Nehru. Hanuman Singh Budania approached Pandit Nehru and told every thing to him. Maharaja Bikaner invited him back to join service but he refused. He was again arrested. His 90-year-old mother, four brothers and their wives were imprisoned for two years. He again sat on fast till death in jail and continued it for 65 days when he got fainted for 10 hours, and then he was released.
In 1947 the farmer’s movement for freedom and abolition of Jagir
s was in full swing. He was arrested along with 8000 participating farmers and left in unknown forest. Later he was arrested and punished with hard imprisonment for one year. To enhance the hardships in jail, snakes were left in his room. He was released only after India got freedom in 1947.
Churu district
Churu is a district of Rajasthan state of western India. The town of Churu is the administrative headquarters of the district.Churu lies in the Jangladesh region of northern Rajasthan...
in Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
, India.
Birth
He was born in BudaniaBudania
Budania is an ancient gotra of Jats who live primarily in the Indian states of Rajasthan and Haryana. In Haryana, they are found in the village of Bhattu Kalan, and the city of...
gotra
Gotra
In the Hindu society, the term Gotra broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor. Panini defines gotra for grammatical purposes as apatyam pautraprabhrti gotram , which means "the word gotra denotes the progeny beginning with the son's son"...
Jat Hindu family at village Dudhwa Khara
Dudhwa Khara
Dudhwa Khara is a historical village in Churu district in Rajasthan, situated in Thar Desert at a distance of 36 km from Churu in north direction. The village has enticing topography and there are huge beautifully designed havelis...
, a historical village in Churu district
Churu district
Churu is a district of Rajasthan state of western India. The town of Churu is the administrative headquarters of the district.Churu lies in the Jangladesh region of northern Rajasthan...
in Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
, situated in Thar Desert
Thar Desert
The Thar Desert |Punjab]] province. The Cholistan Desert adjoins the Thar desert spreading into Pakistani Punjab province.-Location and description:...
at a distance of 36 km from Churu
Churu
Churu is a town in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Churu District. It lies in the Thar Desert on the National Highway-65 connecting Pali to Ambala and is a junction station on the railway line to Bikaner...
in north direction. The village has enticing topography and there are huge beautifully designed haveli
Haveli
Haveli is the term used for a private mansion in India and Pakistan. The word haveli is derived from the Persian word hawli, meaning "an enclosed place"...
s. The rural life and camel
Camel
A camel is an even-toed ungulate within the genus Camelus, bearing distinctive fatty deposits known as humps on its back. There are two species of camels: the dromedary or Arabian camel has a single hump, and the bactrian has two humps. Dromedaries are native to the dry desert areas of West Asia,...
safaris in this village are worth seeing.
Role in Freedom movement
Hanuman Singh Budania took the lead in freedom movement in 1942. His village Dudhwa KharaDudhwa Khara
Dudhwa Khara is a historical village in Churu district in Rajasthan, situated in Thar Desert at a distance of 36 km from Churu in north direction. The village has enticing topography and there are huge beautifully designed havelis...
become the centre of freedom movement. He was in police service of princely state
Princely state
A Princely State was a nominally sovereign entitity of British rule in India that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy.-British relationship with the Princely States:India under the British Raj ...
of Bikaner. He was sympathetic to the people who did conspiracy against the state. This fact came to the notice of Bikaner Maharaja and he was warned on this. He left the police services of Bikaner state in 1942 to take part in the struggle for independence and joined Bikaner Rajya Praja Parishad. He spread the message of freedom movement from village to villages and made villagers member of this Parishad. He was arrested by the state and was dispossessed of his land and village. His entire family was also arrested. He sat on fast till death. When the Maharaja Bikaner learnt that the death of this freedom fighter might create problems for the state, he was released. Maharaja enticed him by offering hundred murabas (irrigated land), but he refused. During the same period there was a conference of the Indian Praja Parishads going on in Udaipur
Udaipur
Udaipur , also known as the City of Lakes, is a city, a Municipal Council and the administrative headquarters of the Udaipur district in the state of Rajasthan in western India. It is located southwest of the state capital, Jaipur, west of Kota, and northeast from Ahmedabad...
, chaired by Jawahar Lal Nehru. Hanuman Singh Budania approached Pandit Nehru and told every thing to him. Maharaja Bikaner invited him back to join service but he refused. He was again arrested. His 90-year-old mother, four brothers and their wives were imprisoned for two years. He again sat on fast till death in jail and continued it for 65 days when he got fainted for 10 hours, and then he was released.
In 1947 the farmer’s movement for freedom and abolition of Jagir
Jagir
In historic India, a jagir was a small territory granted by the ruler to an army chieftain in fairly short terms usually of three years but not extending beyond his lifetime, in recognition of his military service...
s was in full swing. He was arrested along with 8000 participating farmers and left in unknown forest. Later he was arrested and punished with hard imprisonment for one year. To enhance the hardships in jail, snakes were left in his room. He was released only after India got freedom in 1947.