http://103.153.58.85/ind/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Sambhal_TownSambhal Town - Revision history2026-07-11T13:44:38ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.19.2http://103.153.58.85/ind/index.php?title=Sambhal_Town&diff=137783&oldid=prevJyoti: /* 1924: communal tension and Nehru’s report */2025-09-22T04:19:45Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">1924: communal tension and Nehru’s report</span></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Lucknow : A three-member judicial commission probing violence in Sambhal on Nov 24, 2024 has claimed in its report that the town has undergone a shift in demography since Independence, with the population of Hindus falling from 45% in 1947 to 1520% now due to “targeted violence, political complicity and resulting exodus”, according to sources, reports Pathikrit Chakraborty . </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> In a chapter “History of Communal Violence in Sambhal”, part of the report, the panel claims the population breakup was 55% Muslim and 45% Hindu in the Sambhal municipal area, the sources said, adding that at present there are approximately 80-85% Muslims and 15-20% Hindus. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> The report claims they would be targeted so that money wouldn’t have to be repaid, and this fear triggered a large exodus among Hindus, the sources said. This led to a sharp decline in the Hindu population in the town, sources said, quoting the report. According to the 2011 Census, the population of the Sambhal municipal area (nagar palika parishad), then part of Moradabad district, was 2.2 lakh, comprising 1.7 lakh Muslims (77.6%) and 48.5 thousand Hindus (22%). </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> In Nov 2024, violence in Sambhal during a courtmandated survey of the Jama Masjid to ascertain whether it was built over an ancient Harihar temple claimed the lives of four people. The commission was mandated to ascertain whether the violence in Sambhal was normal criminal activity or a planned conspiracy. It was also tasked to probe the role of local police and the action taken by them to bring the situation under control. The panel was also to make suggestions to prevent a recurrence of such an incident. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>SDM Vandana Mishra told PTI that information was received through local SHO that idols were found. The temple is situated in Khaggu Sarai area, just over a kilometre from Shahi Jama Masjid where violence took place on Nov 24 during a protest over a court-ordered survey of the mosque. The district administration has written to Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for carbon dating of the temple, including the well. Carbon dating is a method used to determine the age of archaeological artefacts from ancient sites. PTI</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>SDM Vandana Mishra told PTI that information was received through local SHO that idols were found. The temple is situated in Khaggu Sarai area, just over a kilometre from Shahi Jama Masjid where violence took place on Nov 24 during a protest over a court-ordered survey of the mosque. The district administration has written to Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for carbon dating of the temple, including the well. Carbon dating is a method used to determine the age of archaeological artefacts from ancient sites. PTI</div></td></tr>
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</table>Jyotihttp://103.153.58.85/ind/index.php?title=Sambhal_Town&diff=135428&oldid=prevJyoti: /* A 1908 British account */2025-04-01T06:12:37Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">A 1908 British account</span></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Among the sites rediscovered is the court of Raja Tonk in Saraitareen’s Darbar locality, once a vibrant centre of power but now reclaimed from the shadows of modern buildings. The Tota Maina grave, an ancient Shiva temple, and a 150-year-old stepwell in Chandausi, with its fabled underground tunnel linked to the 1857 rebellion, have also come under official protection. Perhaps most striking is the “reappearance” of Amarpati Kheda, an ASI-protected site that had been considered lost for 75 years. It is said to house Dadhichi Ashram and 21 samadhis, including one believed to belong to Prithviraj Chauhan’s guru, Amarpati. Sambhal’s story is not just one of historical recovery but of reinvention. The city, believed to be the place where Kalki, the 10th avatar of Lord Vishnu, will be born, is now a cornerstone of UP’s religious tourism vision. The CM-led dispensation has folded its revival into the Bandhan scheme, planning to integrate these heritage sites into a tourism corridor spanning the Moradabad division. “Officials have accelerated efforts to reclaim and restore lost sites. Sambhal holds a special place because of its religious significance, and we are ensuring its history is not only preserved but also experienced,” said a senior official.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Jyotihttp://103.153.58.85/ind/index.php?title=Sambhal_Town&diff=135166&oldid=prevJyoti: /* History */2025-03-16T20:49:01Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">History</span></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nehru arrived in Sambhal via Lucknow on 8 September 1924, after a group of Hindus and Muslims clashed in the town during Mohurrum, which coincided with an annual fair held in the town. He spent the next three days speaking with Hindus and Muslims at every level — from members of the local administration to shopkeepers to priests and sadhus. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Not much has changed between the Sambhal of 1924 and 2024, according to Nehru’s report. The town was Muslim majority then as it is now. Both Hindu and Muslim communities are on tenterhooks on the eve of every religious commemoration both then and now, afraid that violence would break out. And the Jama Masjid was a bone of contention even then.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The 13-page report is incredibly detailed, setting the context for the clash that took place. Nehru faithfully reproduces the Muslim version of events side-by-side with the Hindu version, presenting them as comparative columns. The details of the incident are supported by demographic and cultural descriptions of Sambhal and its population, including power dynamics between various communities.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It also gives an insight into the way Nehru approached such conflicts and how he investigated them. In the report, Nehru seems extremely aware of not just his own position in Indian society, but also the precariousness of communal balance in an India that was erupting with all manners of identity crises. It was a time before the idea of Independent India was fully formed.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In his letter to Gandhi, accompanying two copies of the report he’d prepared — written from Anand Bhavan in Allahabad on 12 September 1924 — Nehru briefly describes communal tensions in Lucknow, Amethi and Sambhal. Talks were on to “secure an agreement” between the Hindus and Muslims, and he writes that Muslims are prepared to apologise to the Hindus — but that this alone will not satisfy the Hindus.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The facts of the matter were thus: A local mela conflicted with Mohurrum in Sambhal. In 1923, both communities reached an agreement that the mela would not be held during Mohurrum — but the following year, no such arrangements were made.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On the night of 9 August 1924, a Mohurrum procession took place on a large scale. “Some Hindus as usual took part in the procession,” Nehru notes. But tensions heightened on 11 August, which was the last day of Mohurrum. Many Muslims were upset at music being played and drums being beaten during their period of mourning, and Hindu temples were asked not to play music beyond 9 pm. But tensions broke out over this, and both sides clashed, with violence descending for around two hours. By the end of it, 17 Hindus were hurt and two temples were attacked.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“Prima facie the Hindus are the aggrieved party,” Nehru writes early on in the report. “Two of their temples have been desecrated and idols have been broken; a number of them have been badly beaten and still bear the marks of injury. On the other hand, no Mohamadan to our knowledge has sustained any marked injury. It is said however that a few were hurt.”</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nehru did note that the Hindu side was trying to “improve” upon their version of events by “supplying all manner of details to show premeditation and careful preparation for attack” by the Muslims. They were exaggerating instances of cruelty and improper behaviour by Muslims and also trying to implicate “almost every Mohamadan of note in Sambhal,” as well as local Muslim officials. On the other hand, the Muslims said the Hindus tried to provoke them into an attack.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“The general impression of the evidence is that there was a considerable amount of hard lying on both sides.” The impression he gathered was that of a “courtroom and carefully tutored witnesses repeated a well-prepared story. The two accounts differ materially on almost every important point.” </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''' Nehru’s observations '''</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nehru describes Sambhal as perhaps one of the most ancient towns in India — even mentioned in the Puranas. He also writes that “it is said that the next avatar will come from Sambhal.”</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While the district of Moradabad, he writes, is “notorious for Hindu-Muslim troubles,” he makes note of how important the town was to both Hindus and Muslims.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He describes the Jama Masjid as a “fine temple” built by Prithvi Raj, and notes that according to modern lore, it “was subsequently converted into the principal mosque of the city.” One hundred years later, this mosque still seems to be the central faultline in Sambhal.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">All this context precedes his breakdown of the incident in question, neatly presented side-by-side in two columns. The Hindu version is much longer than the Muslim version, crammed with more facts and details — even a “ganja smoker” is described in this. Earlier on in the report, he writes that Hindus were more forthcoming with their version of events than the Muslims — this is despite the fact that he was accompanied on this fact-finding mission by Shaikh Badruzzaman of Barabanki district, who had left Aligarh University to join the non-cooperation movement in 1920.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The report is scathingly honest, and Nehru is clearly concerned by the depth of religious sentiment forcing people to violence.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“The suggestion in the Muslim version that the Hindus themselves must have desecrated their temples and broken their images is pure fancy and not possible to accept without the strongest proofs,” writes Nehru, describing the suggestion as “absurd.” On that night, Hindus were terrified, writes Nehru — “they all locked and bolted their doors and waited anxiously for the morning.”</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Similarly, Nehru dismisses the idea that Muslims premeditated the attack. “But one thing is clear that they were resentful and angry and it may be that they were very ready to accept any real or fancied challenge to them,” he conceded.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At the end of the meticulous report, Nehru makes his final observations — an opinion on Sambhal that seems to have echoed through the annals of time.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“It does not appear that there was any instigation for this attack or desecration of temple from outside. No such suggestion was made to use by any person — Hindu or Muslim,” writes Nehru bluntly in the concluding paragraph of his report. “Outsiders have of course been frequent visitors in Moradabad and have increased communal feelings, but there appears to be no other connection between the Sambhal riot and the outside world. The local people are fully capable of doing it without any help or suggestion.” </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Even in 1924, the region had a reputation. Nehru’s descriptions of Sambhal and Moradabad match the belief that the region is a communally sensitive hotspot.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The incident also gives us a glimpse into what religious tensions were like at the time. This particular riot took place a year before the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (R S S) was founded in 1925. It was four years after the non-cooperation movement began and two years after the Chauri-Chaura incident.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“The district of Moradabad is notorious for Hindu-Muslim troubles,” Nehru writes. “Congress work has not prospered here in spite of repeated efforts.”</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He goes on to mention that a Hindu Sabha had been started in Sambhal around 1919 or 1920 — it was a “local affair” that had little to do with any similar all-India or provincial organisation. But the activities of this Sabha have “considerably irritated the Muslims,” Nehru notes, describing the activities as chiefly including litigation to recover temple properties and negotiating the boundaries of a graveyard.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Casteism, too, was alive and practiced — Nehru observes that the members of the “Chamar” caste were not allowed to use most wells in the town. When someone from the community drew water from a wall, Nehru notes that this upset both higher caste Hindus and Muslims, causing some resentment as it was done during the month of Ramzan.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> The temple was reopened on Dec13 after authorities said they stumbled upon the covered structure during an anti-encroachment drive. The temple housed an idol of Lord Hanuman and a Shivling. It had remained locked since 1978. The temple also has a well nearby which the authorities had planned to reopen. District magistrate Rajender Pensiya said the ancient temple and the well are being excavated.</ins></div></td></tr>
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