What an incongruity that the SPELLING of the beginning stage of Revolt of 1857 is as yet unaltered! ITAWA (the manner in which it's spelled in HINDI) was wrongly spelt by the Brits as Etawah simply like their impossible to miss spellings of Munghyr (Munger in Bihar) and Cawnpore (the present Kanpur). Oh, nobody thought about this residential community from where Sepoy Mutiny started and swelled into India's first war of freedom. To demonstrate my regard to the place and as an unassuming tribute to it, I'll spell it 'effectively' all through my article and compose ITAWA and not the senseless ETAWAH.
In this generally tested nation, one questions whether anybody has known about this fairly in reverse town in UP. Ask a metro-based youth or even his/her father/mother, anything about ITAWA and they'll give you a clear and empty look as though 'Ye aap kya poochh rahe hain'? (What the heck would you say you are inquiring?). Such is the obliviousness on the grounds that the essayist of this piece as of late asked a 23-year-old young lady in Delhi whether she heard the name of Mangal Pandey (the principal saint of Revolt of 1857 who was hanged by the Brits on April 8, 1857)? Her impassive answer shivered me: Mangal Panday, kaun? (Who was Mangal Pandey?)
ITAWA is in the region of Eta (again incorrectly spelled by the English as Etah). Estimated time of arrival (the correct spelling), Mainpuri and ITAWA are nearly bunch towns and the cutting edge India thinks about them as Dacoit-Belt! Again a declined incongruity.
ITAWA's gatherer amid the Revolt of 1857 was An O Hume who later turned into the organizer and leader of the Congress in 1885. Hume cherished India and its kin. As a gatherer of ITAWA, Hume kept in touch with the East India Company's head Sir Christopher Collins in Calcutta (no 'Kolkata' for me; we can change the names of the enormous urban areas in light of the fact that those names were given by the Brits, yet can't change the spelling and name of ETWAH to ITAWA) that the severe guideline of East India Company and due to its degenerate officers, a revolt by the Indians was on the blacksmith's iron. What's more, that occurred. Hume was an altruistic British officer who understood the poor Indians and asked for that Mangal Pandey's life be saved. However, he was hanged (freely) to set a hindrance for different Indians.
ITAWA is popular for its Lion Safari. It's home to Asiatic lions (initially from Gir, Gujarat). Lions move uninhibitedly while the guests move in confined ways. National Chambal Sanctuary is likewise here. Agra-ITAWA cycle thruway (207 km long) is Asia's first cycle parkway. It's one-of-its kind venture.
ITAWA has respectably great schools and universities, yet nothing striking. There're bad lodgings and eateries here. Be that as it may, there are sensibly great cabins in ITAWA and roadside restaurants give passably great dinners. The town needs a gigantic redo to end up a city of prestige.
Quite a while back, Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad proposed that ITAWA should have a gallery devoted to Revolt of 1857. The leftovers of that essential occasion have not been safeguarded appropriately.
I've been to ITAWA ( Pin Code 206001 ) and felt nostalgic. By one way or another, I could identify with the place as I've generally been a sharp understudy of history, esp. current Indian history starting from 1857 till date of dim legislative issues.
In this generally tested nation, one questions whether anybody has known about this fairly in reverse town in UP. Ask a metro-based youth or even his/her father/mother, anything about ITAWA and they'll give you a clear and empty look as though 'Ye aap kya poochh rahe hain'? (What the heck would you say you are inquiring?). Such is the obliviousness on the grounds that the essayist of this piece as of late asked a 23-year-old young lady in Delhi whether she heard the name of Mangal Pandey (the principal saint of Revolt of 1857 who was hanged by the Brits on April 8, 1857)? Her impassive answer shivered me: Mangal Panday, kaun? (Who was Mangal Pandey?)
ITAWA is in the region of Eta (again incorrectly spelled by the English as Etah). Estimated time of arrival (the correct spelling), Mainpuri and ITAWA are nearly bunch towns and the cutting edge India thinks about them as Dacoit-Belt! Again a declined incongruity.
ITAWA's gatherer amid the Revolt of 1857 was An O Hume who later turned into the organizer and leader of the Congress in 1885. Hume cherished India and its kin. As a gatherer of ITAWA, Hume kept in touch with the East India Company's head Sir Christopher Collins in Calcutta (no 'Kolkata' for me; we can change the names of the enormous urban areas in light of the fact that those names were given by the Brits, yet can't change the spelling and name of ETWAH to ITAWA) that the severe guideline of East India Company and due to its degenerate officers, a revolt by the Indians was on the blacksmith's iron. What's more, that occurred. Hume was an altruistic British officer who understood the poor Indians and asked for that Mangal Pandey's life be saved. However, he was hanged (freely) to set a hindrance for different Indians.
ITAWA is popular for its Lion Safari. It's home to Asiatic lions (initially from Gir, Gujarat). Lions move uninhibitedly while the guests move in confined ways. National Chambal Sanctuary is likewise here. Agra-ITAWA cycle thruway (207 km long) is Asia's first cycle parkway. It's one-of-its kind venture.
ITAWA has respectably great schools and universities, yet nothing striking. There're bad lodgings and eateries here. Be that as it may, there are sensibly great cabins in ITAWA and roadside restaurants give passably great dinners. The town needs a gigantic redo to end up a city of prestige.
Quite a while back, Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad proposed that ITAWA should have a gallery devoted to Revolt of 1857. The leftovers of that essential occasion have not been safeguarded appropriately.
I've been to ITAWA ( Pin Code 206001 ) and felt nostalgic. By one way or another, I could identify with the place as I've generally been a sharp understudy of history, esp. current Indian history starting from 1857 till date of dim legislative issues.
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