Monday, October 1, 2018

Etawah: Important Center for the Revolt of 1857, BUT NOW FORGOTTEN

What an incongruity that the SPELLING of the beginning stage of Revolt of 1857 is as yet unaltered! ITAWA (the manner in which it's spelled in HINDI) was wrongly spelt by the Brits as Etawah simply like their impossible to miss spellings of Munghyr (Munger in Bihar) and Cawnpore (the present Kanpur). Too bad, nobody thought about this residential community from where Sepoy Mutiny started and swelled into India's first war of freedom. To demonstrate my regard to the place and as an unassuming tribute to it, I'll spell it 'accurately' all through my article and compose ITAWA and not the senseless ETAWAH.

In this generally tested nation, one questions whether anybody has known about this somewhat in reverse town in UP. Ask a metro-based youth or even his/her father/mother, anything about ITAWA and they'll give you a clear and empty look as though 'Ye aap kya poochh rahe hain'? (What the heck would you say you are inquiring?). Such is the obliviousness on the grounds that the author of this piece as of late asked a 23-year-old young lady in Delhi whether she heard the name of Mangal Pandey (the main legend of Revolt of 1857 who was hanged by the Brits on April 8, 1857)? Her apathetic answer shivered me: Mangal Panday, kaun? (Who was Mangal Pandey?)

ITAWA is in the region of Eta (again incorrectly spelled by the English as Etah). Estimated time of arrival (the best possible spelling), Mainpuri and ITAWA are nearly group towns and the cutting edge India thinks about them as Dacoit-Belt! Again a deteriorated incongruity.

ITAWA's gatherer amid the Revolt of 1857 was An O Hume who later turned into the organizer and leader of the Congress in 1885. Hume cherished India and its kin. As an authority of ITAWA, Hume kept in touch with the East India Company's head Sir Christopher Collins in Calcutta (no 'Kolkata' for me; we can change the names of the enormous urban areas on the grounds that those names were given by the Brits, yet can't change the spelling and name of ETWAH to ITAWA) that the abusive lead of East India Company and as a result of its degenerate officers, a revolt by the Indians was on the blacksmith's iron. Also, that occurred. Hume was an accommodating British officer who understood the poor Indians and asked for that Mangal Pandey's life be saved. However, he was hanged (openly) to set an impediment for different Indians.

ITAWA is celebrated for its Lion Safari. It's home to Asiatic lions (initially from Gir, Gujarat). Lions move unreservedly though the guests move in confined ways. National Chambal Sanctuary is additionally here. Agra-ITAWA cycle interstate (207 km long) is Asia's first cycle thruway. It's one-of-its kind task.

ITAWA has modestly great schools and universities, however nothing momentous. There're bad inns and eateries here. However, there are sensibly great cabins in ITAWA and roadside diners give fairly great dinners. The town needs a gigantic redo to end up a city of prestige.

A long time back, Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad proposed that ITAWA should have an exhibition hall committed to Revolt of 1857. The remainders of that vital occasion have not been safeguarded legitimately.

I've been to ITAWA ( Pin Code 206001 ) and felt nostalgic. Some way or another, I could identify with the place as I've generally been a sharp understudy of history, esp. present day Indian history starting from 1857 till date of dim governmental issues.

Visit this place and bear in mind to pay a tribute to those anonymous progressives who set out their lives for us:

When you go home

Let them know with distress

That we've given our today

For their tomorrow.

Keep in mind forget this if at any time you go to ITAWA.

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