Hazari, Razdan & Amin, Family Tree

<body> <p id="noframes"> This <b>genealogy report</b> is about <i>Hazari, Razdan & Amin, Family Tree</i>.It contains 820 individuals and 303 families, and also 83 Pictures from the family tree. <br />The descendants of Shiv Ram Hazari, Hariram Razdan & Gangu Amin (matriarchal family).<br /><br />The Hazari & Razdan families are Kashmiri Pandits<br /><br />The Hazaris left Kashmir around the early 1800s, settled initially in Qilladar (near Gujrat in Pakistan Punjab) and finally in Lahore (till Partition in 1947), the Razdans were from Patiala and the Amins from Mangalore.<br /><br />HAZARI HISTORY By Rajinder Nath Hazari [1900 -1980]<br /><br />Parentage<br /><br />Our stock hails from Kashmir and a pedigree table of my ancestors as far as known is given below:<br /><br />Shiv Ram<br /><br />Kewal Ram<br /><br />Nidhanji (died 1847)<br /><br />Gulab Rai (died 1890)<br /><br />Megh Raj (1848 - 1930)<br /><br />Karta Kishan (1888 - 1954), Sri Kishan (1981 - 1977), Jeoshuri, Autar Kishen (1893 - 1966), Suraj Kishan, Rajinder Nath (1900 - 1980) & Kamlavati <br /><br />Owing to Muslim persecution of Kashmiri Brahmans the writer’s great grandfather Nidhanji migrated to the Punjab. It was a rather hazardous adventure in those days of political turmoil and poor communications but evidently he was forced to flee along with some others of his caste for the preservation of the faith of his ancestors and the safety and honour of his woman folk. The party found a haven of safety in a small tumble down village on the bank of the river Chanab 5 miles southwest of the town of Gujrat known as Qilladar [in present day Pakistan]. Obviously the migrating party followed the same bridle-track which the Mughal Kings did during their travel to the valley of Kashmir. The party was headed by a man of great piety named Shri Mansa Ram Ji Razdan [died 1826] to those blessed memory stands a big shrine called “Dhuni Sahib” at Qiladar the only one of its kind outside Kashmir. The writer’s great grandfather and his son accepted the discipleship of Mansa Ram Ji and probably for some years derived their living from the spiritual ministration of the laity. Both were apparently well-off as the writer’s inherited houses in Qiladar from his father which he sold off to clear his debts after retirement from Govt. service.<br />A political storm during the time of Gulab Rai swept our family out of Qiladar. After the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh [27 June 1839] the Sikh ruler of Punjab, the land of five rivers became the hunting ground for ambitious chieftains and adventurers. During the battle of Gujrat in [February] 1849 [Second Anglo-Sikh War] the shrine of Dhuni Sahib attracted the attention of a band of Sikh soldiers who raided Qiladar. With a view to saving the holy place, the priests, headed by Gulab Rai who was then a Kardar (administrator) of a number of villages and also held charge of the shrine negotiated with the raiders to buy them off and some terms were agreed. But as usually happens the raiders broke faith and pillaged the shrine. Gulab Rai jumped from the temple at the dead of night, ran away and swam across the Chanab River to save his life. Soon thereafter the rule of the Punjab changed hands and the country was annexed by the British.<br />God alone knows how Gulab Rai rehabilitated himself. All I know is that at the time of the mutiny in 1857 he was a Subedar [Segeant] Major in an Indian Regiment which joined the mutineer’s and was disbanded. A year of two later he became a subinspector of police in Peshawar and thereafter was transferred to D.I.  [Dhera Ismail] Khan  [city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan] as Kotwal [chief police officer], where he celebrated the marriage of his only daughter [Diddajan Hazari, post marriage, Parmeshwari Muttu] who was married at he age of nine to a child [Pyarelal Muttu] of the same age who was the son  of a well known Deputy Collector in the Punjab. In 1931 I met an old gentleman in D.I.Khanand he had a very dim recollection of my grand-father.<br />From our father’s description Gulab Rai was a man of medium height, healthy complexion, lynx-eyed, compact built and of unusual physical courage. In the evening of his life, he turned a recluse and preached Vedanta to one and all he came across. He served as a police officer in Peshwar, D.I. Khan, Bannu, Delhi, Karnal and Ambala and retired from the last mentioned place as Inspector of Police round about 1884.  Gulab rai’s wife spent most of her young life in her parents home. The writer’s father was the eldest child. He was born in 1848. Next to him was Moti Lal who died young and next was Hari Shankar who died in 1896. The youngest was daughter Dayaji. She died at Gwalior at the age of 81 in 1944. Megh Raj started education when Christian Missionary was digging in his toes with the bait of school, the hospital and similar charitable institutions, expectant to tear away big chunks off the unsophisticated Hindu society of that time. For a career under the new masters of knowledge of English language was essential and Megh Raj was sent to a missionary school much against the wishes of his father, presumably under the pressure of the European Deputy Commissioner of D.I. Khan. He indirectly put serious obstacles in the way of the young child fearing  that he might not be weaned away from his religion; nevertheless, the lad managed to acquire a tolerable acquaintance with the foreign language.<br />It would seem that Megh Raj was a spirited youth, a kind of rebel son. He was married when hardly six or seven years later he joined the Indian Army as a Cavalry Dafadar [Non-Commissioned officer, equivalent to sergeant] which job he took up in defiance of his father’s wishes. Time and again the son and father parted company. Leaving the army service, after a year or so he restarted life as a subordinate official in Revenue Department through his father’s help. This was in 1868. He rose to be a Tehsildar [revenue collection officer of a Tehsil] and retired from service in 1903. He has had a chequered life. While still below 30 he lost his first wife and did not remarry until 7 years later. Born during stormy days when the Sikh Raj fell, he saw the great Indian Mutiny of 1857. A self-reliant man, he could face any storm unperturbed. He was somewhat gay in his youth and possibly irresponsible, particularly when he was a widower. But he was endowed with a personality and firmness of character. He held every job with credit and was respected by the people he came in contact with. He loved his first wife passionately. She left a son named Gauri Shankar who also died young in 1887. The writer and his four brothers and two sisters all sprang from the second union. Megh Raj lived in comfort comparatively but when he was bout 50 the fortune of our family suddenly took a bad turn. Megh Raj had a nasty  fall from a horse while touring on duty in the country-side which caused a fracture of his hip-bone. This calamity brought great suffering to the family. Despite repeated setting the injury left a permanent disability (a limp) for the rest of his life. He ate up all his savings and invalided out of service on an inadequate pension. My mother fought a losing struggle in her effort to equate diminishing resources with growing expenses and heavy debt had to be incurred. Had a grant of 90 acres farm by the government in 1905 in recognition of father’s services not come to our rescue our fate would have been sealed. The old man toiled on the land which yielded good dividends and the family was rehabilitated. <br />Medium sized, wiry and sun tanned, Megh Raj’s features appear to have been wrought for facing hardships. He had an authoritative look  and stentorian voice. He had a tender heart and wide catholic sympathies. His command over tongue was remarkable and he had a fund of anecdotes and homely stories to narrate. There was a charm in his spoken word and he wrote excellent Urdu. During his prolonged bed-ridden period he studied astronomy, astrology and religion and complied some useful notes on Hindu philosophy, Thesosophy, Astronomy and agriculture.<br />He never forgot his first wife, her charms and gift and was indifferent if not rather unkind towards the second. He did not however, have a studied attitude but was impulsive and his mood varied from extreme kindness to extreme harshness towards her. He had unwavering belief in God and was an optimist even during his dark days. “What God ordains is for the good and everything will be alright” so he used to say.<br />I should confess regretfully that I had more fear than affection for him. He was kind to me but his almost total baldness stern and wrinkled visage and expression due to advanced years, his gait and perhaps his harshness towards mother was disagreeable to my child psychology created a gulf between us and even when I was fully grown up I could not fully respond to his love.<br /><br />---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /></p><ul> <li><a href='toc_individuals.htm#Kaul'>Find the Kaul family and its 79 ancestors.</a>.</li> <li><a href='toc_individuals.htm#Dar'>Search the Dar family and its 60 persons.</a>.</li> <li><a href='toc_individuals.htm#Razdan'>Find the Razdan family and its 57 persons.</a>.</li> <li><a href='toc_individuals.htm#Hazari'>Search the Hazari family and its 57 people.</a>.</li> </ul><p> You may also search for the following family names: <a href='toc_individuals.htm#Suri'>Suri</a>, <a href='toc_individuals.htm#Majumdar'>Majumdar</a>, <a 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