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.[2] Tilpat is the largest village of Brahmins in Ballabgarh tehsil.[3] Brahmins are the majority and the largest zamindars (most lands belong to them), and other castes like Jats and Gurjars are sprinkled minority.[4][5] It was mentioned as Tilaprastha in Mahabharata.
Tilpat
Tilprastha | |
|---|---|
Census town | |
  Tilpat Location in Haryana, India  Tilpat Tilpat (India) | |
| Coordinates: 28°28′03″N 77°19′30″E / 28.46750°N 77.32500°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Haryana |
| District | Faridabad |
| Government | |
| • Type | BJP |
| • Body | Faridabad Municipal Corporation |
| Population (2001) | |
• Total | 6,377 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Vehicle registration | HR |
| Website | haryana |
Demographics
editAs of 2001[update] India census,[6] 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
editAccording to Hindu literature, Tilpat was one of the five villages demanded by the Pandavas for the sake of peace and to avert a disastrous war, Krishna proposed that if Hastinapura agreed to give the Pandavas only five villages named Indraprastha (Delhi), Svarnaprastha (Sonipat), Paniprastha (Panipat), Vyaghraprastha (Baghpat) and Tilaprastha (Tilpat), 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. This led to the Kurukshetra War, described in the Mahabharata.[7][8]
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 and was held by Brahmins, Rajputs and Gujars.[9]
At the time of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in the year 1600, Tilpat was called Tilpat Garhi.[10][11]
Issues
editIn 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.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Haryanvi". Ethnologue. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
- ^ a b Is IAF protecting its land on Yamuna banks from sand mining: Delhi HC asks Indian Express, 17 May 2018.
- ^ Gazetteer of the Gurgaon District: 1883. 1883.
- ^ Wood, Oswald (1882). Final Report on the Settlement of Land Revenue in the Delhi District, Carried on 1872-77, by Oswald Wood, and Completed 1878-80, by R. Maconachie. Printed at the Victoria Press.
- ^ Singh, Khushwant (1979). Indira Gandhi Returns. Vision Books. ISBN 978-0-8364-0655-9.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "इन पांच गांवों के कारण हुआ था पांडव और कौरवों में महाभारत का युद्ध | mahabharata war". hindi.webdunia.com. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
{{cite book}}:|first2=has generic name (help) - ^ Sharma, Gautam (1990). Valour and Sacrifice: Famous Regiments of the Indian Army. Allied Publishers. pp. 152–153. ISBN 9788170231400. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- ^ Awrangābādī, Shāhnavāz, Prashad, Shāhnavāz Khān, ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn, Baini (1952). 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.
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