A few days ago, my mom started recounting our family history. It is a fascinating account of .... "survival" if you may and also, an account of how child mortality improved in India - reason for 1-2 kids /per family in pre 1930's, 10-12 kids per family post 1950's, 4-5 kids per family in 1970's and 1-2 kids now in today's nuclear families. I realized, having born in 1950's she would probably be the only person alive in my family with so much knowledge of our ancestry. And it is worth preserving for the posterity.
My grandfather came from a village "Tikatnagar" near Faizabad or Ayodhya, birthplace of Ram, the reason why we are AyodhyaVashi Vashya caste. The grandfather of my grandfather was "Mukhtiyar" or "Power of Attorney" of Tikait Maharaj's successor. Tikait Maharaj himself is known to be very cheritable. Many ponds, schools and hospital of old days are testitomony. Imambara in Lucknow, India was also built by Taikat Maharaj. There are many cheritable deeds of my grandfather. Here are some of them
He was known to be very cheirtable. His knowledge about the local medicine was kept in high regard by surrounding village. Many villagers, who were perhaps past paitients treated by him, used to volunteer for him to prepare medicine from local spices, roots and tree barks. Every morning, there used to be a line to get treatment from him from various ailments from stomach ache to severe lesion. Once there a person from the other village having a severe stomach ache. He diagnosed the problem and asked the man to take the caster oil immediately. The man from the other village did not follow intruction and thought he would take it on return to his village by the evening. However, my grandfather has knew that the problem would be very severe in a few hours. Understanding that the man is not going to follow instruction, he asked his companions to buy caster oil and administer it on severe pain en-route. True to my grandfather's world, the man suffered severe pain strokes and was administered the medicine that saved his life.
My grandfather came from a village "Tikatnagar" near Faizabad or Ayodhya, birthplace of Ram, the reason why we are AyodhyaVashi Vashya caste. The grandfather of my grandfather was "Mukhtiyar" or "Power of Attorney" of Tikait Maharaj's successor. Tikait Maharaj himself is known to be very cheritable. Many ponds, schools and hospital of old days are testitomony. Imambara in Lucknow, India was also built by Taikat Maharaj. There are many cheritable deeds of my grandfather. Here are some of them
He was known to be very cheirtable. His knowledge about the local medicine was kept in high regard by surrounding village. Many villagers, who were perhaps past paitients treated by him, used to volunteer for him to prepare medicine from local spices, roots and tree barks. Every morning, there used to be a line to get treatment from him from various ailments from stomach ache to severe lesion. Once there a person from the other village having a severe stomach ache. He diagnosed the problem and asked the man to take the caster oil immediately. The man from the other village did not follow intruction and thought he would take it on return to his village by the evening. However, my grandfather has knew that the problem would be very severe in a few hours. Understanding that the man is not going to follow instruction, he asked his companions to buy caster oil and administer it on severe pain en-route. True to my grandfather's world, the man suffered severe pain strokes and was administered the medicine that saved his life.
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