bard caste
The Baran caste is one of the most ancient castes of India. In the Aditya Hridaya Stotra, Lord Surya is worshiped as being served by the Siddhas and the Charans. In the Puranas and Mahabharata etc. texts and many God eulogies, this caste is mentioned with great respect along with Siddha, Gandharva and Vidyadhar etc. In the middle period of Indian history, this caste has been a political guru for the Kshatriyas, an encourager of valor, a helper in adversity and revered among all castes. The pages of Indian history are filled with the bravery of the four.
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Baru was born about five hundred years ago in the Detha gotra of the Charan caste. He was a contemporary of Mewar King Maharana Hammir. With the inspiration and help of Baru, Maharana Hammir regained the fort of Chittor. Maharana Hammir was pleased and gave him the title of 'Sauda Barath'. Since then this dynasty came to be called Barahath. By focusing on this baru, Maithilisharan Gupta has composed a short poem called Rang Mein Bhang.
Krishna Singh Barath
The 22nd generation descendant of Baru became Thakur Krishna Singh Barath. In the Shahpura state of Mewar region, the jagirs of the ancestors of Sardar Krishna Singh used to run. Krishna Singh Barahath was more respected than the first class Umraons and chieftains of the Shahpura state. Krishna Singh had received a respectable position from all the kings of Rajputana by his intelligence. He was well known in his time as a politician in Rajputana and Central India. The famous historian Kaviraja Shyamaldas was the maternal uncle of Krishna Singh. Kaviraja Shyamaldas was in the state service of Mewar and was very close to and close to Maharana Sajjan Singh. Krishna Singh Barahath had three sons – Kesari Singh, Kishore Singh and Joravar Singh. He had established a library named Krishna Vani Vilas in his Jagir. Krishna Singh was a scholarly man and a Sanskrit priest. That's why he made special arrangements for Sanskrit education for his sons.
Birth and Education of Kesari Singh
Kesari Singh was born on 21 November 1872 in Devpura village of his ancestral manor near Shahpura (Bhilwara) under the then Mewar region. One month after his birth, his mother passed away. Because of this, he was brought up by his grandmother. At the age of eight, he was admitted to the Charan Pathshala in Udaipur for his studies under the guidance of Gopinath Shastri. Gopinath Shastri was a resident of Banaras and a prolific scholar of Sanskrit. He inculcated the rites of Hindu religion, philosophy and spirituality in Kesari Singh, which led to the development of Kesariji's wonderful personality. He continued to study in the Charan Pathsala till the end of AD 1890.
Marriage and Children
In AD 1891, Kesari Singh was married to Manik Kunwar, sister of Kaviraja Devidan, in the Kotadi hideout of Kota state. On May 25, 1893, from the womb of Manik Kunwar, Veer Pratap Singh Barahath, who got his count among the leading revolutionaries of the country, was born.
Influence of father and father's maternal uncle in personality formation
Kesari Singh Barahath was a master of many Indian languages, a great poet of Dingle and a great patriot. In the personality formation of Kesari Singh, the guidance and education of his father Krishna Singh Barath and father's maternal uncle Kaviraja Shyamaldas had a great influence. Kesari Singh was educated in Sanskrit, but apart from Sanskrit and Hindi, he also studied Prakrit, Pali, Bangla, Marathi and Gujarati languages. Kesari Singh also benefited greatly from the books of Krishna Vani Vilas Library established by Kesari Singh's father Krishna Singh. He got used to self-study from this library.
Influence of Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Swami Dayanand Saraswati has contributed a lot in awakening the political consciousness in Rajputana. In his speeches, he used to tell the superiority of Vedic civilization and opposed foreign civilization. After listening to Swamiji's speeches, people started feeling the pride of their culture and their country. Swamiji's disciples contributed greatly in the campaign against the British in Rajputana. Kesari Singh's father, Krishna Singh Barahath, was among the Patta disciples of Swami Dayanandji. Swamiji's thoughts also had a great impact on Kesari Singh. Kesari Singh Barahath received national love from Swami Dayanand Saraswati. Like Kesari Singh, Shyamji Krishna Varma was also a disciple of Swami Dayanand, who sowed the seeds of armed revolution among the Indian youth for the independence of the country.
Influence of Mazzini's Biography
In his youth, Kesari Singh got the opportunity to read the biography of Mazzini, the Father of the Nation of Italy. He was so impressed with this character that he began to consider Mazzini as his political mentor.
In the service of Udaipur Maharana
Kesari Singh joined the state service of Mewar state under the guidance of his father and father's maternal uncle Kaviraja Shyamaldas. Maharana Sajjan Singh, enchanted by Kesari Singh's poetry, gave Kesari Singh many villages in the jagir. After the death of Maharana Sajjan Singh, when Kaviraja Shyamaldas gradually withdrew from the government work, then Maharana Fatah Singh, making Thakur Krishna Singh and his son Kesari Singh as their confidants, started getting all the secret work done through them.
Shyamji Krishna Varma and Kesari Singh
To deal with the disputes arising with the British government, Maharana Fateh Singh needed such a person who was a scholar of the English language, political savvy and diplomacy. Thakur Kesari Singh was entrusted with the task of finding the prime minister of the state. Kesari Singh selected the country's famous freedom fighter Shyamji Krishna Varma for this work. Shyamji Krishna Varma came to Udaipur in September 1893 on the call of Kesari Singh. Shyamji Krishna Varma held a respectable place among the revolutionaries of India. By that time Shyamji Krishna had become famous as an enemy of the British due to his opposition to the British rule. Later on, he did many important works. He played a major role in the shooting of Maharashtra's commissioner Rand and his associate Lt. Ayerst, which led Shyamji Krishna Varma to leave India. Later his disciple Madanlal Dhingra shot India's secretary Curzon Willey. The appointment of Shyamji Krishna Varma had an adverse effect on the relations between the Maharana and the British and Kesari Singh's father Krishna Singh also became a grit in the eyes of the British. Thakur Krishna Singh was fired from the state service of Mewar on the instructions of Political Agent Colonel Miles.
In the service of the King of Kota
Shortly after Krishna Singh left Mewar, Kesari Singh also went to Kota. Br. Dharmavrata has written- 'Vaishakh no. In 1956 (E.1899) the meritoriousness of Kota King Umaid Singh attracted Kesari Singh and he started living in Kota. Hearing the praise of his qualities, Maharao called Kesari Singh to Kota in AD 1900 and appointed him as a respected courtier by giving him 60 rupees monthly.'
Superintendent of Ethnography
In AD 1902, Kesari Singh was appointed as the Superintendent of Ethnography in British India, giving the special task of collecting information regarding various castes and professions etc. Kesari Singh continued to do this work till AD 1907.
-Doctor. Mohanlal Gupta