Bapora

Bapora is a village in the Bhiwani district of the Indian state of Haryana. There is a Tomb of Sant Baba bhagwan Dass ji who was famous palmist.It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the district headquarters town of Bhiwani. As of the 2011 Census of India, the village had 1,657 households with a total population of 34,332 of which 17,651 were male and 16,681 female.[1] The major population of area is Brahmin and Rajput.[2] Devsar along with Bapora, both are Brahmin dominated villages.[3]

Bapora
Village
Bapora is located in Haryana
Bapora
Bapora
Location in Haryana, India
Bapora is located in India
Bapora
Bapora
Bapora (India)
Coordinates: 28.815°N 76.063°E / 28.815; 76.063
CountryIndia
StateHaryana
DistrictBhiwani
MandalBhiwani
Founded byThakur Jagsi Ram Singh
Government
 • BodyVillage panchayat
Population
 (2011)
 • Total35,000
Languages
 • OfficialHaryanvi
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)

History

Thikana of Bapora was founded by a Tanwar Rajput Chieftain Thakur Jagsi Ram Singhji, also known as Baba Jagsi. Baba Jagsi was great-great-great grandson of Rao Raja Jatmal Singhji (also known as Jatuji) who came from Patan to rule the present-day areas of southern Haryana (Bhiwani-Mahendragrah and some area of Hisar). The descendants of Rao Jatuji are known as the Jatu Tanwar. They have ruled over 1440 villages in their times[4]

Battle of Bapora

A battle was fought at Bapora with a locally famous Nawab Mulla Farid Ladai in the 17th century. Nawab’s army was 5 or 10 times bigger than the Rajputs of Bapora, but the Rajputs of Bapora bravely fought and won that battle. A nagada is kept in the Shivala Mandir, near Government Primary School of Bapora, which was used in that battle. General V.K. Singh describes his village in his autobiography as given below -

[5]

There's something incredibly romantic about Bapora, the village where the present Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Vijay Kumar Singh, was born, spent his childhood, and still has a home,

It might be Bapora’s location, on the far side of the town of Bhiwani in Haryana (famed for its prize-winning boxers), on the fringe of the Thar Desert. It could be the dusty lanes that wind past big old houses, including havelis, some of them now abandoned and sunk a foot or more below the surface. It could be Bapora’s age, which is approaching 700 years. It could be the legends that surround its foundation, studded with sadhus and Rajput kings. It could be Totawala Baba, an ash-covered sadhu who has just begun his rigorous summer schedule of tapasya at the big Shiv Mandir near the government school. It could be the tang of steel in the air, owed not just to the presence of hundreds of retired servicemen here (and generations of soldiers before them) but also to the historical memory of the locally famous Mulla-Nawab Ladai, when stolen taxes (carried, the elders say, on three camels and two horses) led a nearby nawab to wage bloody war against Bapora in the 16th century.

(Singh 2005, pp. 6–17)

Notable individuals

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References
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  2. Raote, Rrishi (5 May 2012). "General's village". Business Standard. New Delhi.
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  4. Rathore, Abhinay. "Patan (Thikana)". Rajput Provinces of India. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  5. Singh 2005, p. 6-11.
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  11. "Relatives of politicians to chairman's child, Haryana Civil Services all in family - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  12. Haryana Civil Services Exam | Strategy To Crack Haryana PCS Exam | By Mukund , SDM HPSC Exam 2017, retrieved 25 October 2021
  13. Deswal, Deepender (24 January 2010). "Bapora girl does Haryana proud". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  14. @Chopsyturvey (3 September 2021). "Bhivani Hariyana ke Subedar Vir Singh Tanwar. Both his sons and only daughter got commission in our Air Force…" (Tweet). Retrieved 25 October 2021 – via Twitter.
  15. "केंद्रीय मंत्री वीके सिंह के पैतृक गांव बापोड़ा का लाडला बना लेफ्टिनेंट". Dainik Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 25 October 2021.
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  17. Deswal, Deepender (23 January 2010). "New Army chief Bapora's crowning glory". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
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