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Chandesh (Chandesh)

India / Uttar Pradesh / Zamania / Chandesh
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Chandesh , my village, via: Noan, District: Kaimur, Bihar

Chandesh is a typical Indian village of farmers where many of India's most valued cultural forms flourish. It has a population of approximately 4000 and has now thronged strategic importance due its central location. The Chandesh Chauk has gained increasing importance in trade and commerce and holds promise of much more. As per the thinking of residents and politicians go, it will turn out to be a major cultural centre in coming years with major trade giants setting there shops and centre in this part.

As far as the village is concerned, viewed from a distance, my village may appear deceptively simple. A cluster of mud-plastered walls shaded by a few trees, set among a stretch of green or dun-colored fields, with a few people slowly coming or going, oxcarts creaking, cattle, tractors, plowing, and birds singing--all present an image of harmonious simplicity. Those living in cities often refer nostalgically to "simple village life." City artists portray colorfully garbed village women gracefully carrying water pots on their heads, and writers describe isolated rural settlements unsullied by the complexities of modern urban civilization.

Social scientists of the past wrote of villages as virtually self-sufficient communities with few ties to the outside world, mine is a classic example. In actuality, village life is far from simple. It is connected through a variety of crucial horizontal linkages with other villages and with urban areas both near and far. It is characterized by a multiplicity of economic, caste, kinship, occupational, and even religious groups linked vertically within each settlement. Factionalism is a typical feature of village politics.

A quote:In one of the first of the modern anthropological studies of Indian village life, anthropologist Oscar Lewis called this complexity "rural cosmopolitanism."

~~Durgesh Kumar Rai~~
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandesh
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Coordinates:   25°18'48"N   83°47'30"E

Comments

  • People in this village are very religious and have extraordinary courtesy to each others religious ceremonies. The Hindu and Muslim communities reside in complete harmony and present a refined picture of social concord. It boasts of two Temples and a Mosque. People throng to the temples for serenity and perform various rituals. Ideally, the Hindus are supposed to perform sixteen major samskaras rites during the course of their lifetime but as among all Hindus throughout the country (the general masses), all Samskaras can no longer be practically performed. Only the most essential ones like Garbhadharana (conception), Jatakarma (birth ceremony), Namakarana (naming ceremony), Annaprasana (first feeding solid food), Choodakarana (first tonsure), Vidhyarambha (starting of education), Upanayanam (thread ceremony- initiation), Vivaha (marriage) and Anthyesthi (funeral rites) are performed.
  • It's a paradise when on song!
  • Great place to live....lucky to be from this village.
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