Special Report

I M PURNEA,WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME,I AM A TOWN IN WHOSE REMAINS OF MAHABHARAT EVENTS ARE STILL PRESENT.I AM THE WITNESS,A WITNESS WHO IS STANDING ON THE MOUTH OF DWAPAR YUG.WHEN PANDAWAS GOT UNKNOWN LEAVE THAT TIME MAHABHARAT WARRIOR ARJUN ASKED FROM BIYAS_HOW TO START THE BEGINNING OF 12TH YEAR.BIYAS SAID GO TO THE CITY OF KING VIRAT.KING VIRAT CAPITAL WAS VIRAT CITY,WHICH IS TODAY KNOWN AS THAKURGANJ.IN VISHNU PURAN AND VAMAN PURAN THE NAME OF SICKLEGHAD DHARHARA (BANMANKHI)IS DESCRIBED WERE HIRAN KHASYAP WAS THE KING.THE DEVOTEE OF LORD VISHNU PRALAD WAS BORN HERE ONLY.LORD NARSINGH APPEARED HERE AND KILLED HIREN KASHYAP .SAINT MENHI DAS PATERNAL HOME WAS ALSO HERE.I AM THE WITNESS OF MANY HAPPY MOMENT& HAPPENING.ME PURNEA SALIENT AND BEAUTIFUL TOWN.IN DIFFERENT MOMENTS OF TIME THE RULES CHANGES AND THE NAME CHANGES.FROM THE ANCIENT HISTORY PURNEA WAS KNOWN AS PURN_ARYAN,AND IT WAS SURROUNDED BY DENSE FOREST AND WAS SOME TIME KNOWN AS LAND OF LOTUS.PURNEA”S FIRST HISTORICAL WRITER SEIKH KAIFTULLA TOLD PURNEA SHAHER_E_SALONA BUT FAMOUS POET MAULANA YUSUF RASIDI HARIPURVI DECLARED THAT KING PURAN ONLY MADE PURNEA HIS CAPITAL,AND IT IS SAID THAT PURNEA IS NAMED ON HIS NAME.
PURNEA IS ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL DISTRICT IN WHOSE EAST BORDER DINAJPUR COMES AND IN THE NORTH COMES NEPAL ,WHICH AFTER MANY REDUCTION AND DEDUCTION OF KISHANGANJ,ARARIYA HAS BECAME A SEPARATE DISTRICT DUE TO WHICH NOW IT IS SID TO BE A LEAF OF LOTUS.IF WE MARKED ONE MORE QUALITY OF PURNEA THEN IT WOULD NOT BE WRONG THATIT HAS DIFFERENT ADMINISTRATIVE VALUES WHOSE PRIDE WAS ATTAINED DURING THE BEGINNING OF BRITISH RULE.THIS VALUE IS ACHIEVED AS IT IS CLOSED TO THE BOUNDRIES OF NEPAL.A VERY IMPORTANT PLACE PURNEA WAS DIVIDED BY BRITISH HAND IN THE YEAR 1770.HERES FIRST MILITARY MAN NAWAB ASTBAL KHAN AND LAST MILITARY MAN MD.ALI KHAN BAHADUR WAS APPIONTED IN THE YEAR(1767 TO1770).JUST AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1770 ,UNDER THE BRITISH RULE DUKARAIL WAS APPOINTED AS THE FIRST COLLECTOR OF PURNEA.FROM 1770 TILL THE YEAR 2007,104 DISTRICT OFFICERS WERE SELECTED.SOON AFTER PURNEA GAZETTEER WRITER MR.VARIAN CHINI YATRI &HE HUYAN SANG CAME TO INDIA BEFORE 640 YEARS AND DEMOSTRATED ABOUT PURNEA THAT SINCE 647 YEARS BEFORE THIS DISTRICT WAS THE FOLLOWER OF BUDDHISM MEANS UNDER THE RULE OF MAGDHS KING AND WAS FED UP OF KING SHASHANK TYRANNY BECAUSE HE WAS AGAINST BUDDHISM.BEFORE PURNEA WAS UNDER THE RULE OF PAUL KING AND SEN KING AND BEFORE THE YEAR 1199.PAUL&SEN LAST KING LAXMAN SEN WAS KILLED BY THE MUSLIMS 1ST WARRIOR MD.BAKHTIYAR KHIJLI.
MUGALS KINGDOM MOST MERCIFUL&BRAVE MILITARY MAN NAWAB MOIN ALI UDDIN SAIF KHAN REMAINED PURNEAS MILITARY MAN SINCE THE YEAR 1722 TO 1750.BUT IN PURNEA HISTORY WE CAN NOT FORGET MILITORY MAN (1662_1680)NAWAB ASFAND YAAR KAHN BAHADUR BECAUSE IN HIS RULE 1020 HIJRI KING SYED JAMAL UDDIN MOHD.KHAN BAHADUR MADE A FORT IN JALALGHAD WHOSE AIM WAS TO SAVE THE PEOPLE FROM MORANG AND BHOTIYAS.WHEN THE MUGALS KINGDOM BORDER DIDN’T EXTEND THE WEST OF KOSI THAT TIME THE RIVER KOSI FLOWS NEAR WEST OF MADHUBANI TO THE WEST OF FARWISGANJ AND TO THE EAST OF RANIGANJ.THE AREA EASTBTO KOSI DISTRICT WAS UNDER MUGALS KINGDOM AND WEST WAS UNDER KING VEER SING AND WAS KNOWN AS VEER NAGAR.ALONG WITH PURNEA DISTRICT JALALGHAD NORTH AREA WAS CONQUERED BY MORANG.FIRSTLY IN 1731 NAWAB ASFAND YAAR KHAN BAHADUR GOT VICTORY OVER MORANG AND BHOTIYAS AND CONQUERED NORTH TO JALALGHARD THE AREA COVERING 30 MILES TILL JOGBANI AND MIXED IT WITH PURNEA.THEN AFTER IN 1732 HE WENT THE IN OTHER SIDE OF KOSI AND GOT VICTORY AGAINST KING VEER SINGH AND MINGLED THE LEFT AREA TO PURNEA.IN BHAWANIPUR STILL HIS MADE MOSQUE IS PRESENT.PURNEAS LAST MILITARY MAN AAGA MD.ALI KHANS NICE BIBI KAMROON NISA KHANAM WAS MUGALS KINGDOM LAST SIGN WHOSE MARRIAGE TOOK PLACE WITH MUJAFFARNAGAR KING SYED RAZA ALI KHAN BAHADUR AND SHE WAS THE 2ND WIFE OF HIM.AND THEIR 1ST SON WAS SYED ASHAD RAZA ALI KHAN BAHADUR.HIS BUNGALOW IS PRESENT TODAY IN PURNEA CITY.SOME POET HAVE SAID THE TRUTH ONLY i.e:

PURN_ARYAN IS A TYPE OF DISTRICT WHICH HAS KEPT WITHIN IT LAKHS OF CULTURES & HISTORICAL INHERITANCE.IN 1844 THE BEGINNING OF PURNEA DISTRICT SURVEY STARTED WHICH WENT TILL THE YEAR 1848,PURNEAS ALL AREA SURVEY TOOK PLACE SINCE THE YEAR 1901 TO1908 .THEN AFTER THE SECOND SURVEY OVERED IN THE YEAR 1958 WHICH IS COMMONLY CALLED REVISION.AFTER THE REVIEWING OF LAND TAXES DURING THE SURVEY THE BRITISH STARTED THE CUSTOM OF LAND SETTLEMENT WITH THE STATE MAL MALADBAR WITHIN WHICH 58SQ.KM LAND COMES.IN 1887 TO 1892 THE LAND SETTLEMENT WAS DONE WITH THE STATE SRINAGAR AND BANAILY WITHIN WHICH COME 201 SQ.KM LAND.THAT TIME THERE WERE 36 STATE AND 38 PROPWRITERS.PURNEA FROM THE ANCIENT TIME ONLY IS A FERTILE LAND FULL OF TALENT,LITERATURE AND CULTURE .HISTORICAL AND CULTURE TEMPLE MAA KAMAKHYA IS SITUATED IN BHAWANIPUR WHICH HAS A GREAT HISTORY.BHAWANI DEVI TEMPLE IS AN ANCIENT TEMPLE.IN BHAWANIPUR PEER BABA MAZAR IS A GREAT SYMBOL BETWWEN THE UNITY OF HINDU AND MUSLIM.FAMOUS HOLY PLACE BABA VARUNESHWAR TEMPLE WHICH COMES WITHIN BADHARA KOTHI ASSOCIATION AND ANGALIK CHURCH WHICH IS IN GIRJA CHOWK AND IS A SIGN OF 19TH CENTURY.MADHOPARA MOSQUE WAS MADE IN THE YEAR 1265.BAISAITHIVIS SITUATED 20_22KM WEST TO ARARIYA.WHERE PURAINIYA KINGDOM LAST QUEEN INDRAWATI IN 1793 MADE SHIV TEMPLE AND SHIV GANGA POND.THAT TIME IT THE KINGDOM WAS THE KINGDOM OF SAMAR SINGH.QUEEN INDRAWATI WAS THE LAST RULER OF THIS RACE.SHE WAS THE WIFE OF KING INDRANARAYAN.BAISAITHI SHIV TEMPLE IS AN EXECELLENT CONSTRUCTION ON WHOSE ENTRANCE THERE IS A BLACK STONE ON WHOSE ENTRANCE THERE IS A BLACK STONE ON WHICH HISTORY OF SHILALEKH IS PRESENT AND KING INDRA NARAYAN FAMILY NAME IS STAMPED.PURNEAS FOLK DANCE AND FOLK SONG HAS ITS OWN IMPORTANCE IN HIS HISTORY.SAAMA CHAKEWA,JAT JAITIN,DANIYA DANCE,BHAGAIT DANCE,ALLHA UDAL DANCES ARE WELL KNOWN EVEN BY THE CHILDRENS OF PURNEA.HERE FOLK SONG,VAIDHIYA PHAGUWA ARE IMPORTANT.AMONG THE TRIBALS SONG &DANCES SARHUL,KARMA,DHARMA,SOHRAI ARE IMPORTANT.IN PURNEA WHEN THE BRITISH RULE WAS DECLINING THAT TIME ONLY THE EUROPEAN CAME TO RAMBAG AND STARTED LIVING NEAR TO RAILWAY STATION.THESE EUROPEAN ONLY IN 1849 LAID THE FOUNDATION OF CONVENT SCHOOL IN 1882.AFTER INDEPENDENCE SOME EUROPEAN WENT BACK WERE AS THE GRAVE OF THOSE WHO WERE DEAD ARE STILL PRESENT IN THE NORTH OF PURNEA SADAR HOSPITAL.ON 8 AUG 1942 WHEN WHOLE INDIA WAS PROTESTING AGAINST THE BRITISHERS TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY AT THAT TIME THE PEOPLE OF PURNEAALSO TOOK PART IN THE AGITATION.THE FEELING OF HATRED FOR THE BRITISHERS WAS BUSTED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME BY THE INDIAN IN 1920.IN 1921 DR.RAJENDRA PRASAD CAME TO PURNEA AND GANDHIJI CAME IN THE YEAR 1925&1927.DR.RAJENDRA PRASAD AND MANY BIG LEADERS DID THE OFFICIAL TOUR OF PURNEA,AND AFTER THAT THE VOICE OF INDEPENDENCE BECAME MORE STRONG.MANY WERE ARRESTED AND MANY WERE KILLED THAT TIME ONLY DRUP KUNDO BECAME THE PREY OF BRITISHERS.MANY FAMOUS FREEDOM FIGHTERS WERE ARRESTED AMONG WHOM MR.LAXMHI NARAYAN SUDHANSU,MR.VAIJNATH CHOWDHARY,DAROGA PRASAD CHOWDHARY,MR.ANANT KANT VOSH,MR.SHATISH NATH BAHADURI,JIWAJ PRASAD HIMANSHU,SATYANDRA NATH RAI,DR.KISHORI LAL KUNDU,KAMAL DEV NARAYAN SINHA,BHOLA PASWAN SHASTRI,FANI GOPAL SEN,KISHORI LAL MANDAL,RAM NARAYAN MANDAL ETC WERE ARRESTED FOR MURDERS AND ROBERRY.WITH THE SACRIFICE OF FREEDOM FIGHTER AND MARTYRS INDIA GOT FREEDOM.IN PURNEA MANY POET WERE WORLD WIDE FAMOUS AMONG WHOM FARNESWAR NATH RENU WAS THE MOST FAMOUS.BESIDE HIM WE CAN TAKE THE NAME OF LAXMI NARAYAN SHUDHANSHU,HIMANSHU JI,DIWIJ JI,SATI NATH BAHDUTI,WAFA MALIK PURI,TARIQUE JAMILI,DR.SATYENDRA NIGAM,KALADHAR CHANDRA KANT RAI MANJURE NAZAR ETC… PURNEAS 1ST WRITER WAS SIEKH KAIFAITULLH KHAN WHO IN 1728 WROTE A BOOK VIDHYADHAR.HE WAS THE 1ST MUSIC DIRECTOR IN FILM INDUSTRY AND JOINT NARESH BHATTACHARYA,BOMBAY TALKIES.THE GREAT OF FILM INDUSTRY RAJKAPOOR MADE A FILM TEESRI KASAM ON THE STORY OF “MARE GAYE GULFAM” WRITTEN BY SHILPI RENU AND DIRECTOR RAMESH TALWAR MADE A MEGA SERIAL ON DOORDARSHAN.MAILLA ACHAL BASED ON RENU”S JI NOVEL MAILLA ACHAL WHOSE MOST SHOOTING WAS DONE IN THE CITY PURNEA.AN ART FILM WAS MADE ON THE STORY OF CHANDRAKANT JAISAWAL WHO WAS OF PURNEA ITSELF.PURNEA”S AJIT LAL OR (CHOTU PURNEA WALA) DIRECTED BHOJPURI FILM HAMAR DULLHA AND MANY ORRIYA AND BENGALI FILMS.DRAMA HAS ITS OWN VALUE IN HISTORY OF PURNEA.ON THE STAGE OF KALABHAWAN MANY PLAYS WERE ORGANISED.IN PRESENT THE PLAY ACTORS PERFORM MANY IMPORTANT SKIT IN DIFFERENT PLACES FOR THE MENTAINANCE.MANY PLAY ACTORS CAME AND WENT AWAY BUT THEY ALSO PERFORMED MANY IMPORTANT PLAYS.PURNEA”S 1ST LEGISLATOR WAS MR.KAMAL DEV SINHA.THE MOST SIMPLE CONGRESS LEADER OF BIHAR BHOLA PASWAN SHASHTRI BECAME THE CHIEF MINISTER OF BIHAR TWICE.THE WAY IN WHICH DISTRICT OFFICER MR.RAMSEWAK SHARMA MAINTAINED &DEVELOPED PURNEA IN THE SAME WAY THE PRESENT DISTRICT OFFICIER MR.SHRIDHER CHERIBELU IS DOING.PURNEA ZILA SCHOOL IS A CENTRE OF SPORT,LITERATURE AND CULTURE.PURNEA ZILA SCHOOL IS ONE AMONG THE EIGHT ZILA SCHOOL WHOSE FOUNDATION WAS LAID BY THE BRITISHERS WITH THE HELP OF GADBANIALY KINGS FAMILY .FROM THE YEAR 1853 TO 1953 THE SCHOOL WAS RUNNING OVER THERE BUT NOW IN THAT PLACE SADAR HOSPITAL IS PRESENT.ON 15TH JAN 1934 AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE KING KUMAR KRITANAND SINGH DONATED 13.5 HECTARES OF LAND TO ZILA SCHOOL.SAINT MEHIDAS WHO WAS NOMINATED AS THE WORLDWIDE SPIRITUL SAINT TOOK HIS SECONDARY EDUCATIN FROM THE YEAR 1895 TO 1904 IN ZILA SCHOOL.THE WINNER OF RAVINDRA AWARD SATINATH BAHADURI A FAMOUS WRITER,THE MAGICIAN OF FOOTBALL AND INTERNATIONAL PLAYER ABDUS SAMAD,THE REPRESENTATIVE OF INDIAN TEAM IN THE OLYMPIC ABDUL LATIK,CHILD SPECIALIST DR.DEPAIN WAGCHI,WHO WAS WORLDWIDE FAMOUS ,ABHAS KUMAR CHATTERJEE WHO IN THE YEAR 1966 SECURED THE 1ST POSITION IN THE IAS EXAMINATION AND A.K MAJUMDAR WHO ALSO QUALIFIED IAS IN THE YEAR 1949 STUDIED IN ZILA SCHOOL.MOHAN BHAGAN TEAM CAPTAIN ANIL DE WAS ALSO A STUDENT OF ZILA SCHOOL.
HOW MANY INCIDENT AND FEELING WILL BE GATHERED,TIME WILL CHANGE,NATURE WILL CHANGE,BUT PURNEA WILL ALWAYS BLOOM LIKE A LOTUS FLOWER.