Bahrelia

Bahreliya (also called Barholia, Bahrauliya or Bahrela) are a small sect of Rajputs found in Barabanki district and neighboring districts. They claim to be Bais and Suryavashi Rana (Sisodia). There are also some suggestions that some of the people came from Bansi Gorakhpur and were Sombansi. They all were called Bahrelia, in Barabanki, Taluqa Surajpur Bahrela. In some reference it's mentioned that they were retired soldiers from different places.

History

To the south of Daryabad and north of Raebareli, lies the region of the Bahrelia Rajputs, whose headquarters were at Surajpur Bahrela. "A Rajput sept, who were branch of the bhrigubansi stock, and the chief proprietors of Barhaul, in Banares, from the principal town of which pargana they derive their name. They are said to have come from Rengarh, in Mewar, and were on their way to Jagannath, when their chief Rana Narotham Rae, aceepted service with the Seori or Chero Raja. The head of the sept, in Barabanki, where they are most numerous. Their Families Claims to be Suryavansi Rana chhatris of Bharadwaj gotra. As it is mentioned in Books, Eastern India – II, 463, Elliot, Supplemental Glossary, S. V,.( Ranas or sisodiya came from lavapur or Lavashthali, now known as Lahore which was established by King Lava, the Elder son of Lord Rama and Sita, King Birsen son of kanak sen who was last king of Lahore, built shivpuri which is known by chittod now. That's how Sisodiyas are known as Suryavanshi. Its story is mentioned in lots of books). Since they came from Barhaul were called Barholiya and this word became Bahreliya in many years.

They were first displaced by Pathans, who held the country till the days of Akbar. In the year 1547, the head of these Pathans, one Awar Khan, rose in rebellion, and an imperial force under Raja Baram Singh Bali, a Bais Risaldar in the service of the emperor, was sent to put down the rising. The Raja was successful; the fort was taken, Awar Khan killed, and the Pathans expelled. In reward for this victory, he received the estate consisting of seventy-one villages. He was succeeded by his son, Bhikam Singh, the ancestor of the present taluqdar. The Bahrelias grew in numbers and prospered, till towards the end of the Nawabi they became very powerful. Raja Singhji of Surajpur was a very formidable chief, who successfully resisted the Government officials. His story is told by Sir W. Sleeman. It was mainly owing to his bad example that the Daryabad district became such a hotbed of turbulence and disorder that the chakladars were-to use a native expression-unable to breathe in it. Not only did he indulge in wholesale robbery and plunder himself, but he encouraged ‘several other Bahrelia bandits of note, such as Sheodin Singh, his cousin brother, Chanda Singh and Indal Singh, most of whom died in jail at Lucknow; Janak Singh and Jaskaran Singh of Kitaiya in Surajpur; and Raghubar Singh and Murat Singh, also of Kitaiya, an estate of eleven villages, all occupied by robbers of this clan. Mahepat Singh of Bhawanipur was the most dangerous bandit and also head of all the gangs. Raja Singhji was at length brought to justice by Maharaja Man Singh and Capt. Orr, In Charge of Companies Frontier Police, who in 1845 stormed the fort of Surajpur, killing and wounding fifty of its inmates. The Raja escaped to the fort of Gaura, where he surrendered; he was taken to Lucknow and there died in prison. He was succeeded by his widow, Rani Lekhraj Kunwar, a masterful lady of energy and resource, who obtained the sanad. She it was who built Chamierganj, as headquarter of this taluqa, of the Ram sanehi ghat tahsil. At her death the estate passed into the hands of Raja Udit Partab Singh, who was mentally and physically unfit to manage the property which was controlled by Udit Narain, his maternal grandfather. Then sanad came to Babu Mahipal Singh, a cousin of Raja Singhji. At his death the estate was taken under the management of the Court of Wards during the minority of Babu Pirthipal Singh, who got sanad later with 52 villages. He had been educated at the Colvin School in Lucknow and at the Agra College. His residence was at Hataunda, a village in the north of the pargana about five miles north-west of Chamierganj and near the Kalyani River. There are no other Bahrelia taluqdars, and only two members,. One is Babuain Bhagwan Kunwar of Pali in the Sultanpur district, who owns the single village of Rich, on the banks of the Gumti in pargana Mawai, assessed at Rs. 2,175. The account of this estate was given in the Sultanpur volume. The lady was the widow of Babu Kishan Datt Singh, who died in 1895. The other was the taluqdar of Panhauna in RaiBareli, which included three villages in pargana, Subeha and Inhauna, assessed at Rs. 1,530.The estate was also known as Sarai-Gopi. The owner was Sheoratan Singh of the Gaumaha family of Bais. He resided in the RaiBareli district. The Gaumaha's belong to the Gandeo Bais, who colonized the Inhauna pargana at an early date. Many of them subsequently became Musalmans.

The Bahrelias marry Raghubansis, Bisen of Raipatti, Chauhan and Bais, and their daughters are married to Amethias, Pun wars of Itaunja, and occasionally to the Tilokchandi Bais. Lots of bahrelia with their families, left the taluqa because of hunting of Capt. Orr and Raja Man Singh of Mahona, and settled in Sultanpur, Pratapgarh and Raibareli. Ishwari Singh Bahrelia got Naurangabad which is near Gomti River, from Raja Badri Pratap Singh of Tirhut(Ram Nagar) its mentioned in Gazeetter of Sultanpur 1903. Ramadhin Singh Bahrelia was given 500 acres of land and 3 villages from King of Hasanpur as it is mentioned in Kshtriya Maha Sabha book, 1913. Most of the Bahrelias in pratapgarh got work, in the different taluqa's of kings and Zamindars. When they came to these districts, they were not accepted by other rajputs. Some places they fought with other rajputs. Because of zealousness and their rowdy nature, people started teasing them as behaliya (A scheduled caste). Some Behaliya became Thakur or Rajput because of this who were staying in these districts before 1850. Some of them were not able to tell people that they were bahrelia of barabanki because of robbery case against them.

Every old Kshatriya or Rajput Vanshawali like Thakur Ishwar Singh madhad's Rajput Vanshavali, Thakur Bahadur Singh Beerdas's Rajput Vanshavali, and Shri Raghunath Singh Kaalipahadi's rajvansh etc. Bahrelias are mentioned as:-

Gotra – Bharadwaj, Vansha – Bais Ki God Sisodiya, Ved – Yajurved, Kuldevi – Baneshwari ( Banmata), Kuldev – Shiv Ji, Taluqa – Surajpur Bahrela, District – Barabanki and Rai Bareli (Now in Sultanpur, Pratapgarh and Faizabad also)

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