invitation to all and sundry to kaithi victory tower of RAI KHEMRAJ SINGHJUDEO

Further to Rai Khemraj Singh’s Victory Tower at Kaithi(Katehar,Varanasi)
There is no denying the fact that there has to be a joint venture of all Raghuvanshies of not only Kaithi but of all the Katehar and Dobhi not so much for their cooperation and financial and all other kinds of help but to escape the rancour and ill-will of the usual type of Thakur community’s pattidari hype and one-up manship in their blood,starting from the time a male off-spring is born in a family and women-folk go begging from house to house to kindly spare the newly-born of any ill-will and past-discord.More so in Kaithi,as the saying goes about a thakur of Kaithi to be more complicated than a’Jalebi’.So I most humbly pray and beg of all the mighty leaders of the society,habitually for at least five generations,since JagLal singhji traveled to Hyderabad and changed the shape of things to come as well as shifting the leadership of the first family after the dowager princess Hansa Kunwar’s reign became intolerable to the neo riches,to kindly permit me to proceed with the exercise in glorification of their’s as well as mine and of thousands of others common ancestor ,who established us in Kaithi and Katehar as well .The sight shall not be approved unless they stand with me ,shoulder to shoulder,forgetting all animosity of the past and of the present as well,of any popular humiliation of the past generation and confrontation of the recent past,in our own times which may be still smouldering,owing to the and through the so called henchmen.
Similarly,the envy of our another branch in Dobhi shall also be tried to overcome and I ,hereby seek their kind cooperation in raising a victory tower of the ancestors of their cousins,in the north-east situate pargana of Katehar.They have such a wonderful monument to Ganesh Rai in Dobhi’s degree College that they fret for us not having any thing of that sort of our own to celeberate the reign of the Raghuvanshies of Katehar and prominent among them being my elder Dr.Ram Janam Singh even tried acquiring land and of building a girl’s school or something to throw lime-light on our long existence in the area.So ,very naturally,I urge upon him to come to our rescue on this “RAM-NAVMI” day to make a consciencous effort to bind us together ,not only with the Dobhi-clan,but to use his influence to bind the Raghuvanshies of Katehar togather. Apart from monetary help,without strings attached,and without asking,it would be so wonderful to have all connected parties not only cooperation but also a full-fledged collaboration in the project,by way of suggesting drawings and designs of the proposed structure and the text of the epitah on our ancestor’s achievements in settling the pargana of Katehar with off-springs of his eleven brothers and of his own as well,including the legendry Dyuman Deo’s grand-father in Chandravati.
For that,I propose throwing get-togather meal invitations to one and all of the family .with no formal printed cards,but from word of mouth and perhaps through the columns of the popular ‘Dainik Jagran’.There we can converge and haggle together on various aspects of the design and in the process shower the blessings on my humble project and on me.
One has to be aware of the jealousies of others as well,calling it an upper-cast propaganda item and try to stop the work’s progress through the elected members of the assembly and government functionaries,even though it would be entirely a private and family affair and being carried-out on my private property,without seeking anyone’s help.Three years ago Dinesh etc. tried to make two pillars in our ‘Bag Malikan’,which was opposed by the Yadav community living around the Bhumidhari-plot of ours did not brook our act and by and by demolished the two four feet tall pillars,without any protest from the hordes of thakurs visiting Markandey Mahadeo every day,as the demolition squad on the quiet had the blessing of one group or the other,which was also well known.Such is the petty politics of the local thakurs.So,I have to plead with folded hands to all such powerful centres of our cousins that I shall not begin the project unless I have their full agreement and unrequitted support. And the henchmen associated shall be asked to leave our ancestors alone,and leave their proposed memorials alone as well.
I do not mind going from door to door and like the women folk beg for mercy on the newly-born I can ask for mercy on the proposed memorial of our common ancestor to be installed in the wilderness,surrounded by hostile(to our property in general and to my plot No;615 in parti cular) populace,owing allegiance to some powerful centre or to some past-Zamindar,always ready to come forwad in the harm’s way.But we would lie to avoid the harm’s way and are ever ready to extend a handshake of friendship,short of forgoing our proprietary rights on our joint Bhumidhari of S.N.614 etc.,for some political party to build shops and another political party to build a pucca road along side my plot no.615.And as I am always put forward as the spokesman for the village,I am put to harm elsewhere by usurping my land for building a private road or a road leading to Mushar’s hamlet,without ever bothering to take my permission.So I know I have to be prepared for some sort of loss somewhere because of my grandiose scheme.I only seek your sympathy and support and the rest I can look after on my own purusharha and resources as then I will be around the town all the time.
SURESH PRATAP SINGH DATED- 02/04/2009