to publishers around the world-your kind attention, pl.

Dated-20/04/2009
To,

The Publishers around the World

Through the Internet


Dear Sirs,

Re.: Publication of my book; “The Plebeians who would be kings”.

Synopsis and gist available on the following site:

www.1857-amartyramongpwwbks.com


To highlight the book on the history of the Raghuvanshies of Ayodhya made to shift to Varanasi or Benares in around 1194 AD at the behest of the Gaharwar King of Kashi, Kannauj and Ayodhya,after the imminent attack of Mohammad Ghori(invited to displace and eliminate Prithvi Raj Chauhan for abducting Princess Sanyukta of the Gaharwars and marrying her),and specially 600 years of their status in the history books as “independent land-owners” of the parganas of Dobhi in Jaunpur and Sultanipur and Katehar in Ghazipur and Varanasi and Narwan, Mahaich and Barah in Chandauli, till the time Lord Cornwallis deputed one Jonnathan Duncan as his Agent in Varanasi to survey and settle all the independent Raghuvanshies on their lands with a lease-deed under the seal of the East India Company and to extract payment of cess and land-revenue from all of them.This is the famous “permanent settlement of Cornwallis and Duncan, and I have dealt with it in detail to record for posterity.

However,the most amazing thing is the status of parganas after parganas(a pargana is a group of about a hundred to three hundred revenue villages,akin to a sub division ) as independent land holding of one sect of Rajputs,viz.the raghuvanshies,without any over-lord or a Raja or even any king of Delhi Darbar.The Raghuvanshies paid no cess,no revenue ,or any rent,whatsoever to anyone at all.There were no war-lords of the medieval Great Britain amogst them to give them protection from the passing-by marauders,like the Bengal expeditionary might of the Afgan King of Delhi,in 1545Ad,which did demolish the mud-fortress of the famous Chieftain Doman or Dyumn deo of Chandravati,whose horse walked on the river Ganges and who saved himself,thus, from the persuing Afgans,assembled in the Zinwa near Markandey Mahadev.

It would be interesting to come across anything anywhere in the world history,which could compare with the suzerainty of the Raghuvanshies of Katehar and Dobhi of our story.No wonder historians like Nurul Hassan Siddiqui have dubbed them as Hindu Kings after the fall of the Gaharwar empire of Kashi,Kannauj and Ayodhya in around 1194 AD,from where on the Raghuvanshies took-over as no more than the tillers of the soil in order to subsist and fend for their children and developed as a mighty force,so as to be dubbed as the only other Hindu Kings after the Gharwars.
That also may explain the title of the book written by me.
There were no pretensions either from their chieftains,or big share-holders and the landed-gentry, but they could befriend mighty warriors and Kings of Delhi or Sultans of Sharquee dynasty at Jaunpur.Once they had to flee in 1320Ad when quite by chance Ghiasuddin Tuglaq set his eyes upon them and learnt of their status of being independent land-owners. But whatever transpired, I can hardly imagine the Emperor sent his troops to recall them and carry on with the business of their cultivation as usual. Lodi King Sikander Lodi befriended Dyumn Deo and was persuaded to stop demolition of Hindu temples in Varanasi, by him Sher Shah Suri,in fact, spent fifteen years of his youth in Dyumn Deo’s stable, and robbed boats at night on the river Sai. Sher Shah even invited Dyumn Deo to Delhi and issued a Grant on paper what was already a fact. that no cess was to be levied on the Raghuvanshies.
There was only a small princely attitude of recording the pedigree ,by olden days Court-bards, descendants of the ones who came from Ayodhya and every village maintaining their genealogical tables, in Persian or Baithauuwa-Urdu.One such table provided me my clue as to who we were.Other than the famous Bhrigu-sanhita horoscope recorder in Lucknow, Pd. Parmeshwar Dwevedi at Major Banks Road, from where my quest began about the most ordinary sort of tillers of the land, not only connected to a famous lineage but also to an extra-ordinary style of establishing suzerainty over their landed belongings and manage to carve-out a niche on six hundred years of revenue history.

I came about doing this work, on the utterings of a palm-reader that I was destined to record a link of our ancestors with the coming generations and I should make a few copies and distribute it among the hordes of my country-cousins (whom we take more seriously than in the UK and the US )and that should be about all. No more fuss And that, exactly, is what I propose doing. I have written the CD and will take-out a print or two and then look for a printing machine in New Delhi’s Dariyaganj or some place equally suitable as the case may be.

But, surely I would love one of you guys take sufficient interest in my story and open my website:www.1857-amartyramongpwwbks.com and print the detailed story of the social surroundings of this proud, if poor, cultivators of land since 1194 AD till date, in which I have even translated the Sanskrit epic on the first known World-conqueror, Raghu, in “Raghuvansh Mahakavya” by the great poet Kalidas, (comparable only to Shakespear ) which is a delight to read and brings tears of compassion to ones eyes(specially to the Raghuvanshies as Raghu was our own ancestor,including more than twenty generations after him).

I regret I have not been able to do justice of rearranging the setting of the chapters, which I thought was the publishers prerogative. If I produce the copies without any outside publisher’s help, there will be a crude version as the outcome. But I can’t really wait, I have very little time at my disposal and I must leave the finished product behind me, as I am the one who is destined to do it.

Thanking you, gentlemen for your kind attention and a little bit of patience to hear me out. If you do feel inclined to publish this work, I could send to you a copy of the CD for going through the entire story for yours and the Advisory Board’s decision for printing the same,and oblige me and the present day Raghuvanshies clan around the world,which would likely take all of three hundred pages in the finished format of a book.


Yours truly
Suresh Pratap Singh
Chartered Engineer (London)
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Cultivator and tenant of Village Kaithi, Katehar. Varanasi
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