User:Lalitmawkin

lalit mawkin was born in India at Jabalpur on 4th of April 1952--exactly five years after India got its independence.Mawkin is an anglicized form of Maakan or Makin who are Panajbis and come from Hariya Badshahpur village in mandi Bahaudin distt.Interestingly when Alexander invaded India he battled around this area with king Porus--in 323 BC or so--the villages with its populace existed that time also.Panjabis as a race are how old??Maakans came from where?They were fair looking stout people with a love of Education and Music.They were a gregarious set of people whose laughter could be heard from a distance as well.Highly arrogant and egoistic because of their superior genes--they thought.Their house at Hariya Badshahpur in 1900 and before that was known as Vadkiyan Da Ghar--meaning house belonging to the Elders--They were reasonably rich and a large family.Lala Bhagat ram maakan/Mawkin was a Forest contractor and had five sons and two daughters.suraj bal mawkin was his son who was my grandfather and had three sons and two daughters.At the time of partition in 1947 the family had to leave everything behind and run away for their lives.Family landed up in Jabalpur--in madhya Pradesh in India where they had relatives Rai bahadur Kartar nath malhotra.Jitinder nath mawkin was the eldest son who had just passed his matriculation and applied for a govt job and was selected in RMS deptt of Post and telegraphs.Postal deptt was one of the very important and prestigious deptt and being an employee of the deptt gave you a status by itself those days.He was 18 years of age when he joined his job and at the age of 19 got married. Krishna mawkin was a daughter of BM Sehgal who used to work as a Guard in the Railways deptt.at Rawal pindi.They were four brothers and two sisters--Unlike mawkins Sehgals were very submissive and affectionate people.well love of education and music was common between the families.In 1947 at the time of partition family shifted to jabalpur. Raliways and RMS being very close govt deptts-BMSehgal came in contact with JNMawkin who was a young and handsome boy of 19 years taking care of his fathers' large family.JnMawkin and Krishna got married on 8th of march 1950,at jabalpur. After four years in 1954 the family shifted to Ambala Cantonment--an important military base in those days around 200 kms from pakistan border.Shifting was again based on the close relatives being there to fall back on in case of any emergency or bad time.After 1947 they were all scared and after they had their jobs they neede to make their families secure back at homes.There is some kind of a fear which always gripped them.