User talk:Khapradih

Smita Tewari Jassal has been at the graduate School of Social Sciences, METU since 2009. She was the Haas Visiting Professor in Anthropology at Brandeis University from 2008-2009. She has taught at Columbia University and at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Over the last decade she researched Indian culture and society in the context of human rights, the role of women and development and issues of politics and society in the Indian subcontinent.

More History to be added... ( Khapradih & Sihipur )

Khapradih & Sihipur estates lies in Awadh region.

The case of the twin taluqas of Sihipur and Khapradih illustrates how the Act worked against the interest of widows. The widow Rajmata Raghunath Koonwer received the sanad for the taluqa of Sihipur. In 1877, she executed a gift in favour of her brothes son Kunwar Bisheshwar Baksh Singh who was a Bais Rajput. At this she was sued by her younger co-widow Thakurain Ramanand Koonwer and also a male collateral Ram Swarup Singh, the owner of the Khapradih taluqa. Eventually the deed of gift was cancelled by a decree, of the privy council (London) on the grounds 12 that widows have only a life-interest.

The legal heir was declared to be Th.Ram Swarup Singh, the nearest collateral and also the taluqdar of Khapradih. In 1886, the taluqa of Sihipur was heavily indebted and in 1891, the widow Raghunath Koonwer died. In 1896 by a civil court decree, the taluqdar of Khapardih was declared proprietor of Sihipur as well. The property was thus into a single taluqa-Khapradih-Sihipur, Sihipur was comprised 56 villages and 33 portions of villages and Khapradih had 275 villages and 157 portions.