Chaudhary

15 January 2012 07:40:10 AM

we are getting weary of this Anuj Whatever repeating the same lies ad nauseum. His latest post has nothing new in it except for this private speculations and ridiculous conclusions.

To top it all he writes the following:

“and the father of sri krishan ji .vasudev ji is not only the friends of nand baba.they are relative.yasoda mata was sister of rukmani(mother of baldev) vasudev ji had two wife .devki and rukmani.understand .so use your mind.”

This is insult to anyone’s intelligence. You can read Bhagvat Purana and Mahabharata. It is clearly stated that Nand was not of Yadava stock but merely a friend of Yadava Prince Vasudeva. He was not his blood relative. Krishna’s father Vasudeva was a prince from royal house. He was never a gwala nor were Krishna’s sons ever gwalas. Krishna just spent some years of his early life hiding among gwalas. That does not make his gwala any more than Moses was an Egyptian.

Further this Anuj can’t even get the name of Balarama’s mother correct. Her name was Rohini, not Rukmani. Rukmani was his sister-in-law (Krishna’s wife!). Such is the state of his knowledge of this ‘expert’trying to teach us about our history.

The word Gola has ambiguous meaning. It could mean distorted form of “gwala” but also just plain “gola” or “servant boy”. In Rajasthan this term is used for the illigitimate children of Rajputs from Golis (servant girls). So don’t let anybody mislead you on this. This term has never been used to describe Sainis of Punjab. We have no link with any communites called by this name. In UP and Uttrakhand , this term is used for special kind of Malis called Gola Malis (also called Bhagrati Malis) found on the banks of river Bhagrathi. They have no link with Sainis of Punjab. No social intercourse, leave alone marriage , has been recorded between them.

Lastly, the descent of Sainis of Punjab from pure and high-born Yadu Rajputs of Mathura is very well-validated not only by our own local narratives but also by historians and anthropologists of repute based on very hard scientific data. I am giving some references and quotes below for those who missed them:

“The Muhammadan invasions drove a wedge through the Rajput principalities of the eastern Punjab. Some of the Rajput clans fled to the deserts of Rajputana in the south, others overcame the petty chiefs of Himalayan districts and established themselves there. A few adventurers came to terms with the invaders and obtained from them grants of land. The Sainis trace their origin to a Rajput clan who came from their original home near Muttra [sic] on Jumna, south of Delhi, in defence of the Hindus against the first Muhammadan invasions.”

-The land of the five rivers; an economic history of the Punjab from the earliest times to the year of grace 1890, pp 100, Hugh Kennedy Trevaskis, [London] Oxford University press, 1928

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” The influence of Saur Sen people can be judged from the fact that the dialect of the entire north India at one time was known as ‘Saursaini’… The above group of Yadavas came back from Sindh to Brij area and occupied Bayana in Bharatpur district. After some struggle the ‘Balai’ inhabitants were forced by Shodeo and Saini rulers to move out of Brij land and thus they occupied large areas.”

-Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Volume 100, pp 119 – 120, SS Sashi, Anmol Publications, 1996

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“They had their kingdom in Karauli in Rajasthan. They were called Shoorsainis. Sri Krishna’s grandfather was Shoorsen because of which the region around Mathura was known as Shoorsen and Yadavas of this region were called Shoorsainis.”

-Mangi Lal Mahecha, Rājasthāna ke Rājapūta (The Rajputs of Rajasthan) , Rajasthan, 1965

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“In the Punjab in the sub-mountainous region the community came to be known as ‘Saini’ . It maintained Rajput character despite migration.”

-Castes and Tribes of Rajasthan, p 107, Sukhvir Singh Gahlot, Banshi Dhar, Jain Brothers, 1989

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Refer to the following research journal which proved based on very hard scientific data that the gene distributions of Sainis are identical with broader Rajput groups while those of other castes like Jats, Khatris, Aroras, etc are not:

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1961 Sep;19:223-5.The study of ABO blood groups of Sainis of Punjab, SINGH IP, SINGH D.,PMID: 13913332

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Some people are blind by choice. You can’t convince them no matter what evidence you show them …What we can do is to point their illogic everytime they try to spread their misinformation with agenda in mind.

Saini community of Punjab has nothing to do with Malis or Golas . If these terms had been used for us, we would have known them in Punjab…our parents and friends would have surely told us about them. This is plain and simple malicious propaganda to deprive us of our heritage.