Tilpat

Tilpat is a census town in Faridabad district in the Indian state of Haryana that comes under the Capital Region. It is famous for the revolt against Mughals. It also has the Tilpat 1 & 2 ranges of Indian Air Force on the banks of Yamuna.[1]

Tilpat

Tilprastha
city
Tilpat
Location in Haryana, India
Tilpat
Tilpat (India)
Coordinates: 28°28′03″N 77°19′30″E
Country India
StateHaryana
DistrictFaridabad
Population
 (2001)
 • Total6,377
Languages
 • OfficialHindi
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registrationHR
Websiteharyana.gov.in

Demographics

As of 2001 India census,[2] Tilpat had a population of 6377. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Tilpat has an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 53%. In Tilpat, 18% of the population is under 6 years of age.

History

It was one of the five villages demanded by Pandavas for the sake of peace and to avert a disastrous war, Krishna proposed that if Hastinapur agrees to give the Pandavas only five villages named Indraprastha (Delhi), Swarnprastha (Sonipat), Panprastha (Panipat), Vyaghrprastha (Baghpat) and Tilprastha (Tilpat) if these five villages was given to pandavas then they would be satisfied and would make no more demands. Duryodhana vehemently refused, commenting that he would not part even with land as much as the point of a needle. Thus the stage was set for the great war, for which the epic of Mahabharata is known most of all.[3][4]

Tilpat is listed in the Ain-i-Akbari as a pargana under Delhi sarkar, producing a revenue of 3,077,913 dams for the imperial treasury and supplying a force of 400 infantry and 40 cavalry. It had a brick fort at the time which was also mentioned.[5]

At the time of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in the year 1600, Tilpat was called Tilpat Garhi. In 1669, Tilpat became the centre of Jats revolted under Gokula, the zamindar of Tilpat. A remarkable feature of this rebellion was its composite character.[6] Though the Jats counted for its majority and provided leadership to it, it consisted of other local people as well such as, Mev, Meena, Ahir, Gujar, Naruka, Panwar and others.[7] The rebels gathered at the village of Sahora (about 6 miles from Mathura). Abdun Nabi, the faujdar of Mathura, attacked them. At first he appeared to be gaining ground, but in the middle of the fighting he was killed on 12 May 1669 (21st Zil-Hijja, 1079 A.H.).[8][9][10] Fighting continued for three days in which muskets and bows were used by the contestants. On the fourth day, the royalists charged the besieged from all sides and having made a breach in the walls entered Tilpat.[11][12]

Issues

In May 2018, Delhi High Court asked the government to ensure to protect the Tilpat 1 & 2 ranges of IAF on the banks of Yamuna river from the illegal sand mining.[1]

References
  1. Is IAF protecting its land on Yamuna banks from sand mining: Delhi HC asks Indian Express, 17 May 2018.
  2. "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
  3. "इन पांच गांवों के कारण हुआ था पांडव और कौरवों में महाभारत का युद्ध | mahabharata war". hindi.webdunia.com. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  4. "Geeta Jayanti 2019: पांडवों ने कौरवों से मांगे थे ये पांच गांव जानिए इनके बारे में". Nai Dunia (in Hindi). 5 December 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  5. Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak; Jarrett, Henry Sullivan (translator) (1891). The Ain-i-Akbari. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 286. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  6. Girish Chandra Dwivedi, The Jats – Their role in the Mughal empire, Ed by Dr Vir Singh. Delhi, 2003, p. 25
  7. Ganga Singh, op. cit., I, p. 64-65
  8. Maasir, p. 83
  9. Roznamcha also known as Ibratnama by Muhammad (R.S.L. Ms p. 133)
  10. Dwivedi, Prasad, Girish Chandra, Ishwari (1989). The Jats, their role in the Mughal Empire, Quoting Maasir, p. 83; Roznamcha, also known as Ibrat Nama by Mirza Muhammad, p. 133; Kamwar (pers. Ms.). Arnold Publishers. p. 27. ISBN 8170311500.
  11. Sharma, Gautam (1990). Valour and Sacrifice: Famous Regiments of the Indian Army. Allied Publishers. pp. 152–153. ISBN 9788170231400. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  12. Awrangābādī, Shāhnavāz, Prashad, Shāhnavāz Khān, ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn, Baini. The Maāt̲h̲ir-ul-umarā: being biographies of the Muhammadan and Hindu officers of the Timurid sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D. (1 ed.). Asiatic Society, 1979; Low Price Publications, 1999. p. 437. ISBN 9788175361591. Retrieved 30 July 2008.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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