Kharbhaia Village

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Kharbhaiya Gaon. Kharbhaia,Patna.
In the pre-independence period the village had substantial Muslim population.On the northern side of the village ,an open area (pind) still goes by the name of Dargah.The sacred earthen mazar of Malo dadi ,considerd as the presiding deity n ancestor of the village , still revered by all the inhabitants , is situated on the side of the Dargah.On the southern side of the village, there is an old beautiful Masjid.The Masjid appears to be of early 20th century, given the architectural style.Near by there is a public well, which has the surrounding of smoothly carved and beautifully laid red sand stone , along with a small hauda.The village has three ponds on three sides of the village.The bigger one on the west side of the village is known as Phul Pokhar(pond of flower)- full of blooming Lotus flowers in late rainy n early winter season.The lanes of the village are wide and generally straight.
During the turbulant days of Sept 1946, the whole of Magadh region was engulfed in the communal frenzy of hatred, loot and killings across the religious divide.Which was a direct fall out of the call of Direct Action day by the Muslim League and the killings and loot resulting in its wake in Calcutta.The fire of communal hatred quickly reached this part of Bihar.There were large scale retaliatory attcks on muslim villages in the area. However ,Kharbhaia remained a shinig example of communal amity ,as Hindu peasants of the village and of Sarthua,Tope, Niyamatpur etc protected their Muslim bretheren from maurauding gangs.In the subsequent years there was migartion of the Muslims from the village to Bihar Sharif, Patna and to East and West Pakistan.
The belief system ,language and even rituals of the village folk symbolises the assimilative civilisational trait of India, the Ganga - Jamuni tahzeeb.Even after the passage of sixty years, the vocabulary of the village folks is quite rich in the Urdu words(though in a magahised form). The Magahi term for the last rite and the funeral procession(the last rite being held on the bank of river Ganga at Fatuha) is Matti- Manzil.
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Coordinates:   25°24'47"N   85°14'10"E

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  • Kharbhaia is one of the bigger revenue villages of the Daniawan block of the Patna district. it is hq of the Kharbhaiya panchayat.it situated about five km west of singariawan railway station of the Fatuha- Islam pur railway line of the EC Railway hajipur. radially the village is appx 18 km south east of the Patna rly stn.the neghbouring villages are Sarthua,Berma,Chittarbigha,Nizamat,Nanauri,Parsanbigha,Bendauli,Daulatpur,Tope etc. The village has fertile land .the famous Ahar-Payin system of irrigation the hall mark of the ancient Magadh is still functional. when the branches of river Falgu bring the rain water from the Hazaribagh hills,all the payins of the kahrbhai mahal(revenue village) become swollen with water and irrigate the paddy fields through CHHALAN system.due enchrochment in last six decades and siltaion the effectiveness of the tradtional irrigation system has slightly reduced.but still the rivers branching from falgue are the main stay of kharif paddy cultivation. traditionally the society and culture of the rural life in Magadh has revolved around the paddy cultivation.coming back to the modern times the kharbhaia village can be thought of as green revolution area. the village has popualtion of 800.most of the population is dependent on agriculture.the village has experienced population explosion in the last 25 yrs. majority of the male young population is working as migrant labour in north west India.
  • tope is very big village .there are meny school and college situated
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  • my parrents were from pasanbigha and jiwanchak
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