Chelian Da Parivar

CHELIAN DA PARIVAR

          S. Santa Singh was the only son of his parents and was born during 1892. He was having two sisters Mrs Inder Kaur & Mrs Sant Kaur. As per the customs of that time, he was not educated and started taking keen interest in farming from childhood. His father Mr. Kanshi Ram was a very saintly person, probably because of that only the nick name of the family became "Chelas" (ਚੇਲਸ). The other reason of nick naming Chelas can be the existence of some worshiping place in the house. I remember during 1950s there was a small engraved stone kept in the Kachi wall of the house which was being worshiped by all. Subsequently during late 1950s when the old Kacha house was demolished and the foundation for the new house was being dug, additional engraved stones were found. All these items are still kept at a separate place in the house and whole family worships it.

2.       S. Santa Singh got married to Mrs. Dhan Kaur of V. Rajpalwan PO Mand Pandher Tehsil Dasuya Distt Hoshiarpur. They were blessed with ten sons named S. Dhirat Singh, S. Amar Singh, S. Kartar Singh ,S. Shankar Singh, S. Kesar Singh, S. Chanan Singh, S. Resham Singh, S. Pritam Singh, S. Harbans Singh and S. Shauquin Singh. Six of them were married and four brothers namely S. Shankar Singh, S. Amar Singh, S. Kesar Singh and S. Harbans Singh were not married. S. Kartar Singh and S. Chanan Singh were married to two sisters of V. Radhechak Tehsil Dasuya whereas S. Resham Singh and S. Pritam Singh were married to two sisters of VPO Jhinger Khurd Tehsil Dasuya. S. Dhirat Singh was married to Mrs. Charan Kaur of V. Bagalipur Tehsil Dasuya whereas S. Shauquin Singh youngest of all brothers was married to Mrs. Mohinder Kaur D/O S. Ratan Singh of V. Samastpur Distt Jullandar. Self and family details of all the brothers is given on subsequent pages.

3.       Mrs Inder Kaur was married to S. Sher Singh of village Gajjan Gillan. She was blessed with a son S. Mehnga Singh who in turn has three sons.

4.       Mrs Sant Kaur was married to S. Ishwar Singh of village Datta ( He was a very stylish man and was very fond of horses and dogs. He used to move in style on horseback with his gun on shoulder followed by his dogs. He migrated to Bar and from there after partition to village Gag Sultan Tehsil Dasuya Distt Hoshiarpur. He was blessed with four sons (S. Gurnam Singh, S. Dhanna Singh, S. Gurdev Singh and S. Daleep Singh). Family tree of Sant Kaur can be seen on the subsequent pages.

5.     S. Santa Singh was the leading personality of his area. He developed a brotherly relationship with Zaildar S. Kartar Singh of V. Bodal. Till now the family is maintaining good relationship with Zaildar family. Being the most powerful person of the village, he did not encourage his sons to behave abnormal with anyone.

All the brothers had deep respect for each other and provided adequate help whenever required. Santa Singh breathed his last during 1959 and S. Shankar Singh took over the reins of the family.

Part Migration to Village Gas Sultan

6.       During 1964 family purchased a big piece of land (35 acres) at V. Gag Sultan PO Ghogra Tehsil Dasuya. S. Kartar Singh, S. Chanan Singh and S. Harbans Singh stayed back at V. Mand and rest of the family moved to V. Gag Sultan.

7.       Land holdings

          (a)      Mand & Teli Chak

Total land holdings with the family was 319 Kanals and 11 Marias. The details of this original holding is as follows :-

          V. Mand                 : 289 Kanals 12 Marlas

V. Teli Chak            : 029 Kanals 19 Marlas

          Total                      : 319 Kanals 11 Marlas

(b)     Gag Sultan

(i)       Out of the 35 acres of land purchased during 1964, approximately 13 acres of land was taken over by the Govt. to build up an Ammunition Depot near the village after the 1971 Pakistan War. Compensation of this land was given at the rate of Rs. 3000/- per acre which was distributed amongst the brothers. Family was left with 168 Kanals and 4 Marias at Village Gag Sultan.

(ii)      Additional land was purchased by S. Dhirat Singh and S. Resham Singh subsequently.

          (c)      Mand. Teli Chak & Gag Sultan

Thus total holding of land was as follows :-

Village Mand                     : 289 Kanals 12 Marlas

Village Teli Chak               : 029 Kanals 19 Marlas

Village Gag Sultan             : 168 Kanals 04 Marlas

Total                               : 487 Kanals 15 Marlas

Trees

8.       Family had around 200 big trees. Majority of these trees were Mango trees. These mango grooves were at six different places. Now family of S. kartar Singh & S. Chanan Singh has mangoes trees, rest all are cut.

Distribution of Land & Trees

9.       S. Shankar Singh expired during 1973 after a massive heart attack. His share was distributed amongst the remaining nine brothers. Now the family was left with six married and three unmarried brothers. With the mutual consent each unmarried brother joined the other two married brothers, thus three groups emerged. Their details are as follows:-

Group I: S. Amar Singh (unmarried) joined S. Dhirat Singh and S. Shauquin Singh. S. Amar Singh expired during 1990. Some rift came up for distribution of S. Amar Singh property after his death amongst the descendents of S. Dhirat Singh and S. Shauquin Singh. Matter went upto the court but it was unanimously decided by all the brothers to give two third to S. Dhirat Singh's descendents and one third to S. Shauquin Singh's descendents.

Group II : S. Harbans Singh (Unmarried) joined S. Kartar Singh and S. Chanan Singh. Share of S. Harbans Singh will go to these two brothers. S. Harbans Singh expired on 13 Jan 2010 & his land was equally distributed to two brothers S. Kartar Singh & S. Chanan Singh.

Group III : S. Kesar Singh (unmarried) joined S. Resham Singh and S. Pritam Singh. S. Kesar Singh distrubuted his share equal to all five descendents of two brothers i.e. S. Satpal Singh, S. Jasbir Singh, S. Baldev Singh, S. Jaswant Singh and S. Kulwant Singh. It is worth mentioning that during 1990 itself S. Kesar Singh himself forced to get the registry done in the Tehsil to avoid subsequent rifts. Even father does not give his share to his children till the time he is alive. S. Kesar Singh survived till 20 Mar 2008.

10.     The second problem came up that land at V. Gag Sultan was more fertile than land at V. Mand. The following was decided unanimously by all the brothers :-

(a)      S. Kartar Singh, S. Chanan Singh and S. Harbans Singh who preferred to stay at V. Mand will not get any land at V. Gag Sultan.

(b)     These brothers will be given extra 12 Kanals of land of their choice at V. Mand in addition to their share as compensation to good land at V. Gag Sultan.

(c)      The land where the mango grooves were there, was not much fertile. It was unanimously decided that whichever mango groove any group is picking up, same land also that group has to take over as their share.

11.     Looking into all the constraints stated above, the distribution of land was carried out during 1993 and following shares emerged:-

NOTE : (i)    S. Hardial Singh S/O S. Shauquin Singh has sold all of his land of V. Mand at a rate of Rs. 60,000/- per acre to his cousins S. Iqbal Singh, S. Harjinder Singh S/O S. Chanan Singh and S. Dilbag Singh S/O S. Kartar Singh during 1996. Now descendents of S. Shauquin Singh do not have any land in V. Mand.

(ii)       Hardial Singh S/O S. Shauquin Singh Mand sold all his land of V. Gag Sultan to Ms. Jasbir Kaur of V. Ghogra & S. Ajit Singh of V. Gag Sultan. Now S. Hardial Singh S/O S. Shauquin Singh does not hold any land at both the villages i.e. Mand & Gag Sultan. Hardial has opened an electronics shop near Raru Chowk at Jalandhar, his family is staying in Ajit Nagar (Near KMV) Jalandhar. Hardial expired on 12 Jun 2010.

 (iii)     Descendents of S. Dhirat Singh has sold all of their land of V. Mand to the following persons and now they do not have any land in V. Mand.

(a)  4 K 9 M to Master Ram Lai of V. Mand

(b)  24 K 9 M to residents of V. Gajreli

(c)  9 K 2 M to S. Satpal Singh & S. Jasbir Singh S/O S. Resham Singh Mand

(d)  3K 11 Mto Rabbal of V. Mand.

(iv)      S. Dhirat Singh has purchased additional land approx 20 Kanals at V. Gag Sultan.

(v)       S. Resham Singh has purchased additional land approx 30 Kanals 14 Marlas at V. Gag Sultan.

(vi)     Share of Mastarka land and one common tubewell at V. Gag Sultan has already been paid to the descendents of S. Dhirat Singh during 1995 and now they do not have any share in Mastarka land and the common tubewell.

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(vii)      10 Marlas of land closer to village road was purchased by S. Satpal Singh from S. Pritam Singh during 1999 at village Mand.

12.     The land holdings as on date after the land distribution in 1993 and sale purchase as stated above is given below :-

13.     From the village Mashtarka land, family was allotted 9 Kanal 16 Marlas at vill Gag Sultan during 1999. This land is divided on the same basis as mentioned in para 9 above. S. Hardial Singh S/O S. Shauquin Singh was not given any share of land in the lal lakeer of both the villages Gag Sultan and Mand, hence he is given priority and is given his share of land closer to the outer periphery of village on the side of Samaadan. Unfortunately he sold of this land also and his share in Agriculture/ Residential area in both villages became NIL.  Rest of the family has their share of land on both the sides of the village drainage. S. Jaspal Singh and partners created some problem in giving land to S. Hardial Singh, hence they were given five Marlas extra to sort out the problem. Out of this land, share of S. Satpal Singh/S. Jasbir Singh is on the drainage culvert on main road (Dasuya Hazipur). It is approximately 19 Marlas. This land is not included for anyone in the land distribution chart shown above in para 12.

FAMILY OF S. SANTA SINGH MAND

U is unmarried

S. DHIRAT SINGH MAND

          S. Dhirat Singh was the eldest son of his parents. He was born during 1911. He was not educated. Right from his childhood, he took keen interest in farming. As he grew there was additional responsibility of providing helping hand to his mother Mrs. Dhan Kaur as the family was very big & his younger brothers were very small. He took it as a challenge & worked extra hard to progress in farming. He motivated his younger brothers not only in the studies but inspired them to extend helping hand in farming also. Family condition was not very strong financially. His hard work in farming has brought good results and family condition improved.

2.       He got married to Mrs. Charan Kaur of village Bagalipur, P.O. Panwan, Tehsil – Dasuya. They were blessed with two sons (S. Amrik Singh & S. Surjeet Singh) and two daughters (Ms. Joginder Kaur & Ms. Kewal Kaur). For family details see subsequent pages.

3.       As on date land with his descended is as follows:

          (a)      V. Mand                           NIL

          (b)     V. Gag Sultan                   66 Kanals.

4.       S. Amrik Singh: He has studied till eight class. He joined army as Sepoy. He got married to Mrs. Baldev Kaur D/O S. Sohan Singh of village Rajowal (Near Hoshiarpur). Her parents are settled in Rurkee. They were blessed with two sons (S. Jaspal Singh and S. Apninder Singh). S. Amrik Singh took discharge from service during 1963. He expired during 1967 after serious illness. His widow got married to S. Surjeet Singh younger brother of S. Amrik Singh.

5.       S. Surjeet Singh: He has completed his matriculation during 1966. He was a good Kabaddi player and participated in 100 mtrs sprints. He is 5’4” tall in height, probably the shortest in the Mand Parivar. He is very quite person. He is hard working and simple soul. He is a full time farmer. After the death of his elder brother S. Amrik Singh, he got married to Mrs. Baldev Kaur wife of his elder brother. They were blessed with one son S. Bhupinder Singh.

FAMILY OF S DHIRAT SINGH MAND

S. KARTAR SINGH MAND

          S. Kartar Singh was born during 1913. He studied up to fifth class. He was very hard working and pushing in nature. He was 5' 10" tall with a good health. He joined Army, served for five years and quitted. Subsequently joined state Police in West Bengal. He rose to the level of Sub Inspector. He stayed throughout at Calcutta without family.

2.       He got married to Mrs Resham Kaur of V. Radhe Chak Tehsil- Dasuya. They were blessed with five daughters and one son. His family all through stayed at V. Mand and his children studied in the village only. For family details see subsequent pages.

3.       He was very generous and open hearted person. He provided the maximum financial help to the joint family. He retired from service during 1970. Even after the retirement he lived a comfortable and a stylish life. He used to enjoy his evening drinks.

4.       Unfortunately during 1997, he got a sudden paralytic attack and within few days he expired.

5.       His landed property is as follows:-

V. Gag Sultan                   : NIL

V. Mand                           : 56 K 04 M

                            : 14 K 02 M (Purchased from Hardial Singh)

                            : 04 K 19 M   (     --- do---     )

                            : 28 K 03 M (S. Harbans Singh Share)

Total           : 103 K 08 M

6.       The family of his second daughter Mrs Baksish Kaur has done extremely well and details are given below:-

7.       Mrs Baksish Kaur:- She was the second child of her parents. She studied up to fifth class only and did tailoring course. From the very beginning she was of a very dominant nature. Before her marriage, she was the accountant of the family under the blessings of S. Shankar Singh. Experience gained, helped her in settling down in life extremely well. She is 5' 8" tall with a towering personality.

8.       She got married to S. Dilbag Singh Son of S. Teja Singh of V. Chipra. A wonderful man with a very pleasant nature. S. Dibag Singh after completion of diploma in Civil Engineering joined Army (M E S ) and quitted as Captain. They have constructed a good house in Urban Estate, Jalandhar.   They are blessed with two daughters and one son. It is matter of great pride for the family to have such an educated and forward looking girls through these two nieces of mine. The details are as follows:

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9.       Mrs Jatinder Kaur:- She completed her Bachelor of Dental Studies ( B D S) and started working independently at Jalandhar. She got married to a Naval officer Lt Cdr Ravinder Pal Singh son of Lt Col Gurmail Singh resident of V. Dhamian (near Sirhala Mundian), Distt Hoshiarpur. After marriage she is working as a dentist in Indian Navy. She has migrated to Canada now and pursuing her further studies.

10.     Major Parminder Kaur:- She completed her graduation and joined LLB. During L L B course she was selected as a Commissioned Officer in Indian Army. She joined Army quitted as Major from Army. She got married to S. Sarabjit Singh Mann from Patiala and settled in America. Parmindar has done management course from IIM, Ahmadabad. They are blessed with two sons Arshveer Singh Mann & Sehajveer Singh Mann.

FAMILY OF S KARTAR SINGH MAND

S. SHANKAR SINGH MAND

          S. Shankar Singh was the fourth child of his parents. He was born during 1917. He studied up to Matric and joined Army. After five years of service he quitted from the Army. At village, he was instrumental in inspiring his brothers to work hard. He took keen interest in family affairs and took over the reins of the big family after death of his father S. Santa Singh. He took over the whole responsibility and assured his brothers not to worry for anything in life except to work hard. It is worth mentioning that while he got the control of the whole family, there were more than thirty members in the family and he himself was not even married. To arrange the finances and to create the impression in everybody's mind that no injustice will be done, was a herculine's task but he did it up to the satisfaction of every one. It was to the extent that father (other brothers) was not even knowing that his daughter's marriage is being fixed. This was the blind faith and impression he created amongst his brothers.

2.       He took part in the local politics also. He himself was the village Sarpanch. S. Satpal Singh Randhawa M L A was his personal friend. Apart from politics he took keen interest in social works also. He was founder for bringing up Teli Chak High School as till 1954 there was no School near the village. He was the chairman of the school till 1971 till school became a Govt. School. He was also a member of Khalsa School Dasuya Management Committee. He remained as Director Co-operative society Dasuya for a long time.

3.       During 1973, he got a sudden massive heart attack and breathed his last. His loss is even felt now, even after 38 years of his death. This Mand Parivar has not come back to the status in which it was during 1973 while he was alive. We all wish his soul comforts in heaven.

4.       His share of property was equally distributed amongst remaining nine brothers.

S. AMAR SINGH MAND

          S. Amar Singh was the third child of his parents. He was born during 1915. He studied up to fifth class. During his childhood he was fond of body building. He even joined wrestling. During his young days he took keen interest in farming. He was very fond of good oxen and had a very good pair. Subsequently he stopped taking interest in farming and became a contractor for wood and charcoal. He used to buy trees, cut them and convert them to wood and charcoal. He used to take these items to Amritsar for sale through Aartias (                 ). He earned a good profit.

2.       He was not married. He was very fond of comforts and wanted to live in style. He purchased a good horse and made a special "Khurli" (ਖੁਰਲੀ) for it Every one used to enjoy the ride of this horse during our childhood. Those are the memorable days. Those days there were no roads, even cycles were not that common and high Govt. officials used to prefer on horseback. There was no horse owner in a radius of 05 KM from our village. So many times the services of our horse were called for by these high officials and even by the good Hindu friends staying in Dasuya Township for marriages. We lost this horse during 1973. Amongst all the brothers and relatives S. Amar Singh was known as "Ghorhi Wala"( ਘੋਰ੍ਹੀ ਵਾਲਾ) .

3.       He gave his share of property to S. Dhirat Singh and S. Shauquin Singh. He breathed his last during 1990. May God bless his soul.

S. CHANAN SINGH MAND

          S. Chanan Singh was the fifth child of his parents. He was born during 1919. He was not educated. He was 5' 7" tall, fair and cheerful in nature. During his young days he was very fond of body building and had extremely good health. He did farming with devotion. He was a man with a very cool temperament and deep thinking. It is worth mentioning that during land distribution amongst the brothers, the writer was the negotiator amongst all the brothers and it took only one hour for distribution of land at village Mand under the able guidance of S. Chanan Singh. The proposal put forward by him was acceptable to all without any objections. It was unimaginable to sort out such a big problem in this short time in which there were seventeen partners. God bless his soul.

2.       While he was young, mother was badly in need of female working hands in the kitchen and there was none. He extended his help to the mother which is even remembered now. To look after the milk, was his responsibility, whether to milk the buffaloes or preparing the curd or churning the curd. He developed a special art of saving butter from the eyes of elder and younger brothers.

3.       His land holding after land distribution amongst brothers and sale/ purchase is as follows:-

          V. Gag Sultan : Nil

          V. Mand                  : 56 K 04 M

                                      : 14 K 02 M (Purchased from Hardial Singh)

                                      : 28 K 03 M (Share from S. Harbans Singh)

          Total                      : 98 K 09 M

4.       He got married to Mrs Parkash Kaur of V. Radhe Chak . They were blessed with two sons and three daughters. The family details are given at subsequent pages. Here I will give the details of only one son S. Iqbal Singh (Eldest son) and his family.

5.       S. Iqbal Singh:- He was born during 1949. Like his father, body building was his main hobby. The stone which he used to lift during his young days, is still lying as a challenge to the younger generation of today. He was 6 feet tall with an extremely good built. After matriculation he got selected as a teacher in Teli Chak School.

6.       He got married to Mrs Sarbjit Kaur daughter of S. Sarwan Singh of V. Kala Bakra. They were blessed with two daughters and one son. Whole village in general and Chelian Da Parivar in particular is extremely proud of Ms. Mandip Kaur and Ms. Inderjit Kaur both daughters of Iqbal Singh who have not only brought laurels to the village but also to the District, State and Nation. The achievements of these girls are given on pages______ para _____. The destiny has played its own role & one day early morning I got a telephone call that S. Iqbal Singh Mand, pride of the village in all aspects is no more. He breathed his last on 01 Jun 2007 due to a sudden heart attack. God bless his soul & give courage to his family to bear the loss. The sad story does not end here. His son Harbinder Singh was given a Govt. job in a school, unfortunately he too got a heart attack at the age of 36 years and breathed his last on 08 Jun 2010. Now wife of Harbinder Singh is employed in a Govt. school as a compensation to the death of S. Harbinder Singh. Harbinder has one daughter & as on today there is no male member in the family of S. Iqbal Singh Mand.

FAMILY OF S CHANAN SINGH

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