Kamsaar Pathans

A board at Kamesardih Kot[5]

An architectural remain of Kamesardih or Kamsar fort build in 1542 by Raja Narhar Khan.[5]

The Kamsaar Pathans derived their Kamsaar name from a Kamesaradih. Kamesaradih was a fort build in an area of 52 Bigha (13.15 Ha) by Raja Narhar Khan where Narhar Khan and his family use to Live with some of their ministers. Raja Narhar Khan was a large Zamindar of a nearby places of Kamesaradih. Now the region of his zamindari is known as Dildarnagar Kamsar. Dildarnagar Kamsaar is a group of 36 villages which were established by the desedents of Narhar Khan. One family also moved to palamu and esatblished 12 villages there. There are total 48 villages established by the descedents of Narhar Khan. Kamesaradih derives its name from Karmanasa river.Kamesaradih Kot is know under Archiological Survey of India. [4][1][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

During Mughal era Kamsaar Pathans became very powerful in the region of Ghazipur and Kaimur District. They had their Jagir name as Kamsaar Jagir. During Mughal era (1601-1687) the area of Kamsar Jagir was divided into two pargans name as Seorai and Daudpur. Both these parganas made the total Kamsar jagir and were spread over 52 villages.[3] Later the number of villages increased and was 122 villages during eirly Britsh rule and later Mughal rule (1687-1952) and had the total area of 1237.6 km² and was kept on a revenue demand of ₹ 2.5 Lakh in 1830.The jagirdar of Kamsar was made by the Mughal emperors and had his court and office at Seorai and Daudpur and main office at Kamsaradih later at Dildarnagar.[36] The Population of the place increased a lot in late 1700s. Some of Chief villages which made the Large parts of Seorai pargana were - Gahmar (A.166.46 km²), Reotipur (A.120.65 km²), Bara (A.151.3 km²), Mahend(A.98 km²), Chausa (A.114 km²), Usia (A.50.35 km ²), Kusi (A.51.5 km²). Some other relative Jagirs near Kamsar were Chainpur,(A.2134 km²) and Jahanabad(Kudra)(A.911 km²) during Mughal era and early Britsh era.[31][3][37][14]

• Raja Babu Narhar Khan; as a zamindar (1542-1560 CE) Mughal empire
• Jagirdar, Nawab Ali Quli Khan urf Khan Zaman (1560-1590 CE) Mughal Empire; (Kamsar region before was a monarcy ruled by Kam dev and later his brother Dham dev and their descents from 1530 to 1560 CE and was known as Birpur estate, but later some parts of it came in Zamania Jagir which was established by Ali Quli Khan a afgan and a Nawab of Ghazipur during Akbar rule in 1560 but later in 1601 Kuttul Khan made Kamsar jagir because the region had large settelments of his family.)
• Sarkar Diwan Jagirdar Raja Kuttul Khan zamindar taluka Seorai (1601-1640s CE); Mughal Empire
• Dewan Faujdar Jagirdar zamindar Raja Daud Khan (1640s-1660s CE); Mughal Empire
• Zamindar Sheikh Ruhul Alim Khan (1660-1680); Mughal Empire. (He was a relative of Nizam Mir Rustam Ali Khan and Jagirdar of Ghazipur and Nizam of Allahabad Subah. He was a uncle of Sheikh Abdullah founder of Bahadurganj. )
• Zamindar Sheikh Muhammad Qasim Khan(1680-1687); Mughal Empire. (He was a Jagirdar of Zahurabad and Kamsar jagirs. He was the father of Sheikh Abdullah a founder of Bahadurganj and a relative of Kamsaaries. )
• Raja Jagirdar Kunwar Muhammad Deendar Khan (1687-1711 CE); Mugha Empire (He was a Jagirdar of Lahore later established Dildarnagar in 1687 and became Jagirdar of Ghazipur. he was a descendant of Dham Dev. He belonged to a village name Samhaota in Chainpur. Later he adopted Islam.)
• Raja Jagirdar Faujdar Zamindar Nizabat Khan (1711-1744); Mughal Empire. (He was the son of Raja Deendar Khan)
• Nawab Fazal Ali Khan (1744-1757 CE); Awadh estate. (Nawab of Ghazipur and ruler of Zahurabad estate which had 1647 villages and 40 pargans. He was a son of Shiekh Abdullah founder of Bahadurganj)
• Amil Jagirdar Chaudhari Muhammad Azmal (1757-1790 CE); Banaras Estate. (He was a zamibdar from Nauli)
• Raja zamindar Yad Ali Khan (1790-1810 CE); Jagdishpur estate.
• Raja Dewan Saleem Khan (1810-1837CE); Jagdishpur estate. (Dewan of Jagdishpur estate and friend of Kunwar Singh.)
• Raja Lambardar Jagirdar Khuda bhaksh Khan zamindar (1837-1882 CE); Jagdishpur estate & Campany rule.(102 villages)(During his region in Oct, 1862 thejagir was made small.)[4][3][20]

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In 1857 in the first war of Indian Independence many Kamsar pathans and many other people revolted against the British and fought bravely. Khuda Bhaksh Khan join hands with Kunwar Singh ruler of Jagdishpur estate and fought three battles with the British and won. They also joined with a zamindar of Jagdishpur estate named Kunwar Singh. Later, many Kamsar Pathans and people from Kamsar-o-bar joined the Indian Army and revolted against the British and in 1947 and also died, one zamindar of Dewaitha village name as Sona Khan was also given the harsh punishment of Kala Pani. Some social reformers from Dildarnagar Kamsar also assisted, Deputy Mohammad Sayed Khan (the founder of SKBM Degree College). The British Empire never had A good hold and power in Dildarnagar Kamsaar Region and Jagir.[36][4][1][14][10][8][21]

Narhar Khan when adopted Islam and told about the adoption by him to his family his brothers and his father angyed later, they discussed a little. Narhar doesn't had better relation ship with his other younger brothers and his other moms. His own mom died some year before he came adopted Islam. Later, his father given him a Peace of land near Kamesardih. Narhar Khan later increased the land owning and became very wealthy Zamindar of Ghazipur and near by cities his land ownings extended till He still had a lot of love for his family. His land owning inceresed to present from Rasulpur village to Mania. He later distributed that land among his sons later his desedents increased land owning to Kamsaraya(or Senisarai) to Zamania and from Kharghazipur to Kusiyara villages. The region of Kamsaar Pathans is knon as the land of Unity because the family with having different religion too. Narhar Khan's family have better relationships with the other relative families of Narhar Khan in Ghazipur. Mostly all the villages established by the desedents of Kam Dev have same customs. Narhar Khan's family is the only family in India to keep such relationship for about 500 years.[26][24][19][35][6][2][1]

All the Kamsaar Pathans in the world belong to Large land owning or Zamindar cummunity of India. Ansisteraly they were rural Muslims. During later Mughal era they were referred to as one of the richest pathan community of India. Kamsar Pathans never had a good relationship with British Empire they also fought three battles with them. It is said that British attacked with small army 20 times in the region but were defeated. Later in 21 time Kamsar pathan were defeated in late 1882 and their Jagir became in direct control of British. The british looted 10-20 tons of silver and gold from their monuments and houses during 1882-1890s. They later had less power in Ghazipur. Due to the attack a large number of Kamsar Pathans sold their zamindari and left their village and went to cities like Allahabad, Delhi, Lucknow, etc. They were known as good zamindars other than the other zamindars of India who were referred as doing Inflation and giving harsh panishments to the farmers. Some of them were force to join the British army and do low level jobs in British offices. Becoming angry with this a Large number of Kamsar Pathans joined hads with Subhash Chandra bose and joined Indian Army.[24][38][2][1][3][36]

Sir Prof Duputy Muhammad Sayed Khan (one of the social Reformer) being a Deputy megistrate of Hazaribagh helped Gandhi ji when he was force fully prisioned by the British. Sona Khan from Dewaitha village of Kamsar revolted aginst the british in 1920s but was given the harsh panishment of Kala Pani where he died. In the Partition of India about 10,000 of them also left their villages and went to Pakistan and Bangladesh. Kamsar pathans or Kamsar family belonging to a welthy zamindar community had very expensive costums like : Inviting 1000 People in the weddings and feeding 1000 poor. Giving atleast 10 sets of gold, 20 sets of silver, 20-30 gold rings and 3 sents of Diamond jewellery. , giving large amount of dawry and land in the weddings of dughters and defferent kind of expensive coustums etc. Because of these coustums the poor Kamsar family who Lost their Great amount of wealth during British era or had less land suffered a lot. Some People also sold acres of land for doing a weddings for their prestige. Pomp and Show by some of the familyeis was one of the main resion for the soldment of land. They always sold land to the People of different religions or their relatives of other villages. Because of the expensive wedding People started marriging their sons in the region and later took all the welth given to dougter and left doughter. .[32][19][2][1][34][40]

To stop this a social reformer and Kamsari name as Khan Bahadur Mansur Ali Khan with large amount of effort and support of the other Kamsaari founder Anjuman islah kamsar-o-bar in 1910. Anjuman's work is to keep a eye one the activities in the wedding. Although those who have money they can follow these coustums. Well Mostly know kamsaar pathans like other pathans of India avoid follow the customs. Anjuman rule Based on the Constitution is referred as the supreme rule in the Kamsar-o-bar region for weddings. Anjuman islah eyery year call and meating of 120 village (established by the desedents of Kam Dev and relative villages of Kamsaaries) Gram Pradhans. Where they discuss about different issues of Kamsar-o-bar.[34][32][24][2][1][40][22]

The family has given some of the notable film actors, revolutionareis, writter, officers, preachers, like Nazir Hussain, Yunus Parvez, Sayed Ishtiaq Ahmad, Khan Shein Kunwar, Mawlana Sayed Shahabuddin Salfi Firdausi, Sir Prof Deputy Muhammad Sayed Khan, Khan Bahadur Mansur Ali Khan,etc.