This village with mansions is very unique…people’s surnames are like birds and squirrels, know the reason

Bamnauli Village Baghpat: Bamnauli village of Baghpat is such a unique village, where people are identified by havelis. People coming to the village from outside ask for the address of a person’s house by the name of Haveli. There are also 11 historical temples in this village. Another unique thing here is that people have been adding the names of animals and birds before their names since ancient times.

Unique village of mansions
In Bamnauli village, which has a population of about 14,000, located at a distance of 28 kilometers from the district headquarters, the work of building big mansions started 250 years ago and more than 50 mansions were built in the village. For this reason this village is called the village of mansions. More than 24 havelis of the village depict the stories of ancestors. Some people have sold their mansions from villages and gone to live in cities. However, about 30 families still live in the mansions of their ancestors and preserve their history.

Kiln was installed to make bricks
Villagers say that their ancestors had set up kilns in the village to make bricks to build mansions. Even today, the havelis contain bricks made from those kilns, which show the 250-year-old history of the village and the havelis. Raghuveer Singh, Chandan Singh, Girwar Singh, Ramprasad Singh, Totaram, Tulsi Ram, Hargyan Singh, Balmukand Bania, Ramnarayan Singh, Bhopal Singh, Radheshyam, Jyoti Swaroop were the first to build mansions in the village. After this, other people of the village started construction of mansions.

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There are 11 historical temples in the village.
There are 11 historical temples in the village. All these temples have been built around the village. The village’s Nageshwar Temple, Baba Surjan Das Temple, Thakur Dwar Temple, Shiv Temple, Hanuman Temple, Baba Kali Singh Temple, Digambar Jain Temple, Shwetambar Sthanak, Shiv Temple, Guru Ravidas Temple, Valmiki Temple are famous far and wide. Devotees from far away places come to offer prayers in many of these temples.

Such are the names of the people of the village
The full name of village man Viresh is Viresh Bhediya. Viresh told that the custom of naming people after animals and animals is very old. According to him, many people in the village have parrot, bird, squirrel, goat, monkey etc. behind their names. Sompal of the village is called jackal. Not only this, when any letter comes, these surnames are written. Postal worker Bijendra Singh said that the people of the village are known by their surname only. Nicknames are written along with their names on their letters.

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