Sleemanabad

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Sleemanabad (स्लीमनाबाद) is a Village in Bahoriband Tehsil in Katni District of Madhya Pradesh State, India. Its ancient name was Kohaka (कोहका). [1]

Location

It belongs to Jabalpur Division . It is approximately 62 km from Jabalpur. It is located 30 KM towards South from District head quarters Katni. 21 KM from Bahoriband. 342 KM from State capital Bhopal Sleemnabad Pin code is 483440 and postal head office is Slleemanabad . Padwar ( 3 KM ) , Bichua ( 4 KM ) , Chhapra ( 5 KM ) , Teori ( 6 KM ) , Lakhanwara ( 6 KM ) are the nearby Villages to Sleemnabad.[2]

Origin

Sleemanabad, literally "Sleeman's town", was named after William Henry Sleeman, a British soldier and administrator during the colonial period.[3]

Variants

  • Sleemanabad स्लीमनाबाद, जिला जबलपुर, म.प्र. (AS, p.1003)
  • Kohaka (कोहका) (जिला कटनी, म.प्र.) (AS, p.242)

Location

It is approximately 62 km from Jabalpur and 32 km from Katni.

History

Major-general Sir William Henry Sleeman

Major-general Sir William Henry Sleeman KCB (8 August 1788 – 10 February 1856) was a British soldier and administrator in British India. He is best known for his work from the 1830s in suppressing the organized criminal gangs known as Thuggee.

In 1820 he was selected for civil employ, and became junior assistant to the Governor-General's agent in the Saugor and Nerbudda territories. In 1822 he was placed in charge of Narsinghpur District, and would later describe his two years in the role as by far the most laborious of his life.[4]He was gazetted to the rank of Captain in 1825, and in 1828 assumed charge of Jubbulpore District. In 1831 he transferred to Sagar district to cover for a colleague on leave. Upon his colleague's return, Sleeman continued with magisterial duties in Sagar until 1835. He displayed a facility for languages, becoming fluent in Hindi-Urdu and developing a working knowledge of many other languages of the subcontinent. Later in his life, Sleeman was described as "probably the only British officer to address the King of Oudh in correct Urdu and Persian."[5] His 800-page report on Oudh is still highly regarded as among the most accurate and comprehensive studies of the kingdom during the 1800s.[6]

Sleeman became the earliest discoverer of dinosaur fossils in Asia when in 1828, serving as a Captain in the Narmada valley region, he noticed several basaltic formations which he identified as having been "raised above the waters". By digging around in the Bara Simla Hills, part of the Lameta formation near Jabalpur, he unearthed several petrified trees, as well as some fragmentary dinosaur fossil specimens.[7] Subsequently he sent these specimens to London[8] and to the Indian Museum in Calcutta.[9] In 1877 the genus was named Titanosaurus Indicus by Richard Lydekker,[10] but the taxonomic position is in doubt. Sleeman wrote about wild children who had been raised by wolves with his notes on six cases. This was first published in the first volume of his Journey through the kingdom of Oude in 1848-1850 (1858)[11] and reprinted in 1852 as An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, by an Indian Official and in The Zoologist (1888 12(135):87-98).[12] This caught the imagination of many and ultimately inspired Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli character in The Jungle Book.[13]

While Sleeman maintained a chauvinistic belief in the superiority of British culture, he simultaneously held an insatiable curiosity about the people and cultures of India and demonstrated some uncommonly liberal views for a European of his time. Unlike the vast majority of British officers, he was never known to have used slurs like "niggers" or "blacks" to describe his Indian household servants or sepoy soldiers. When travelling, Sleeman made a point of meeting the local peoples in each city or district to understand their customs and opinions – including regarding British occupation. Sleeman also developed an abiding sympathy and respect for "respectable peasants" who he described as "some of the best men I have ever known".[14]

Thuggee suppression: Sleeman is best known for his work suppressing the Thuggee secret society. Dating back as early as the 1300s, Thugs were a secret criminal group, partly hereditary in membership, who specialized in the murder by strangulation of travelers as a prelude to theft. Thugs had been known to native rulers and occasionally to Europeans, but the scope of their crimes was not appreciated (later estimated at least in the tens of thousands of victims across India). In 1835, Sleeman captured "Feringhea" (one of the inspirations for the character Syeed Amir Ali in Confessions of a Thug is based) and got him to turn King's evidence. He took Sleeman to a grave with a hundred bodies, told the circumstances of the killings, and named the Thugs who had done it.[15] After initial investigations confirmed what Feringhea had said, Sleeman started an extensive campaign, being appointed General Superintendent of the operations for the Suppression of Thuggee and in February 1839, he assumed charge of the office of Commissioner for the Suppression of Thuggee and Dacoity. During these operations, more than 1400 Thugs were hanged or transported for life. One of them, Bahram, confessed to having strangled 125-931 persons with his turban. Detection was only possible by means of informers, for whose protection from the vengeance of their associates a special prison was established at Jabalpur (at the time Jubbulpore). Sleeman had a Government Report made in 1839.[16] Sleeman wrote three books about the Thugs: Ramaseeana, or a Vocabulary of the peculiar language used by Thugs; Report on the Depredations Committed by the Thug Gangs of Upper and Central India; and The Thugs or Phansigars of India.[17]

British Resident and later life: Sleeman served as Resident at Gwalior from 1843 to 1849, and at Lucknow from 1849 to 1856. Whilst Resident at Lucknow he survived three assassination attempts. He was also opposed to the annexation of Oudh by Lord Dalhousie, but his advice was disregarded. Sleeman believed that British authorities should annex only regions of India that were plagued by violence, unjust leadership or poor infrastructure and thus maintained that native leadership should be left in place when their rule was even-handed.[18]

Sleeman also took an interest in phrenology and believed that the measurements of the skulls could help him identify criminal ethnic groups.[19]

He died and was buried at sea near Ceylon on a recovery trip to Britain in 1856, just six days after being awarded the Order of the Bath.

The village Sleemanabad in Madhya Pradesh, India was named in his honour.[20]

Copper deposits

Copper deposits are found in Sleemanabad. As per Geological Survey of India's DID Report (2011) on base metals, in this area the mineralisation is mostly along faults, fractures/ joints trending N10° - 20°W to S10° - 20°E. Baryte veins and limonitic patches are noticed in the brecciated quartzites. Geochemical sampling showed results for copper.

स्लीमनाबाद

स्लीमनाबाद (AS, p.1003): जिला कटनी, म.प्र. में स्थित एतिहासिक स्थान जो जबलपुर-कटनी मार्ग पर 39 वें मील के निकट स्थित है. इस कस्बे को 1832 ई. के लगभग कर्नल स्लीेमेन (William Henry Sleeman) ने, जिन्होंने तत्कालीन ठगी की प्रथा का अंत करने में महत्वपूर्ण कार्य किया था, बसाया था. इसके लिए उन्होंने कोहका नामक ग्राम की भूमि प्राप्त की थी (देखें जबलपुर ज्योति). यहां एक प्राचीन शिव मंदिर स्थित है.[21]

कोहका

विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[22] ने लेख किया है ...कोहका (AS, p.242): वर्तमान स्लीमनाबाद , जिसे 1832 में कर्नल स्लीमैन ने बसाया था, प्राचीन कोहका ग्राम के स्थान पर बसा हुआ है. इस ग्राम में प्राचीन शिव मंदिर है. यह स्थान जबलपुर - कटनी मार्ग पर 39 वें मील पर स्थित है.

External links

References

  1. ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.242
  2. ↑ http://www.onefivenine.com/india/villages/Katni/Bahoriband/Sleemnabad
  3. ↑ Dash, Mike Thug: the true story of India's murderous cult ISBN 1-86207-604-9, 2005
  4. ↑ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15483/15483-h/15483-h.htm#Mem
  5. ↑ Dash, p. 114-115
  6. ↑ Dash, Mike. Thug: the true story of India's murderous cult ISBN 1-86207-604-9, 2005, p 115
  7. ↑ William Sleeman. "Rambles and Recollections of an Indian official" (PDF). p. 127.
  8. ↑ Sahni, Ashok (2001). Dinosaurs of India. National Book Trust, New Delhi. ISBN 81-237-3109-4.
  9. ↑ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wilsonja/Titanosauria/Background.html
  10. ↑ www.dinodata.org
  11. ↑ Sleeman, W.H. (1858). A journey through the kingdom of Oude in 1849-1850. Volume 1. London: Richard Bentley. pp. 206–222.
  12. ↑ Zingg, Robert M. (1940). "Feral Man and Extreme Cases of Isolation". The American Journal of Psychology. 53 (4): 487–517. doi:10.2307/1417630.
  13. ↑ Hotchkiss, Jane (2001). "The jungle of Eden: Kipling, wolf boys, and the colonial imagination". Victorian Literature and Culture. 29 (2): 435–449. doi:10.1017/s1060150301002108.
  14. ↑ Dash, p. 115
  15. ↑ wain, Mark; Produced by David Widger (18 August 2006). "Following the Equator" (ASCII). EBook. Project Gutenberg. p. Chapter xlvi.
  16. ↑ wain, Mark; Produced by David Widger (18 August 2006). "Following the Equator" (ASCII). EBook. Project Gutenberg. p. Chapter xlvi.
  17. ↑ Masters, John. 1952. The Deceivers. The Viking Press, 237 pages
  18. ↑ Dash, p. 115
  19. ↑ Bates, Crispin (1995). "Race, Caste and Tribe in Central India: the early origins of Indian anthropometry". In Robb, Peter (ed.). The Concept of Race in South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-19-563767-0.
  20. ↑ Dash, Mike Thug: the true story of India's murderous cult ISBN 1-86207-604-9, 2005,
  21. ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.1003
  22. ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.242
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