Bostan Khan
![]() | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Bostan Khan (died 1825), was a warrior of the Tareen (or Tarin) tribe settled in the Haripur, Hazara region of what was to later become the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), who was executed for rebellion by the Sikh administrators of the region at that time.[1]
Early life
Sardar Bostan Khan was the nephew of the clan's chief of that time, Sardar Muhammad Khan.[2] After the Sardar of Tareens was captured for rebelling against the Sikh Khalsa government of Lahore, in year 1824-25, he was arrested.
Struggle and death
After Sardar Muhammad Khan Tareen's capture his nephew, Sardar Bostan Khan, resumed the freedom struggle and went into rebellion against the Sikh Khalsa administrators.[3] A small Sikh fort in Sirikot in Gandgarh district was attacked and taken by the rebels under Bostan Khan. At this time, the Sikh general Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa returned to his jagir Hazara in order to quell this rebellion with the help of a French General Duarte commanding a sizable force of fresh reinforcements from Peshawar.[4] By now, the Sikhs had made up their minds and Hari Singh paid Rupees 50,000 as a tribute to the Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore, to get the custody of Sardar Muhammad Khan Tareen, and had him poisoned to death.[5] At the same time, he had Bostan Khan and some other rebels like Jalal Khan Dilazak, two principal Maliks of the Mashwanis one of them, Qasim Shah Mashwani, Sheikha Jadoon, and Sher Khan Swati blown by cannons at Haripur.[6][7] After this event, the anti-Sikh movement in Hazara region ended only to emerge in form of ineffective skirmishes in Ovrush, Tanawal, Pakhli, Konsh and Balakot.[8]
Later events
Late Sardar Muhammad Khan Tareen had a son, Sardar Ghulam Khan, who for a time from 1826 to 1848 became chief of Tareen in this region but later during the Second Anglo-Sikh War, he was arrested by the British and taken to Allahabad jail, and later hanged there.[9] As a result of the rebellion of the Tareen/Tarins of lower Hazara, they suffered heavy punitive damages under orders of Major James Abbott (Indian Army officer) and were deprived of many of their estates which were confiscated and many of their chieftains and headmen exiled and executed.[10] [11][verification needed]
References
- ^ Hazara District Gazetteer 1883-84 , Lahore, 1884, p.26
- ^ Gazetteer, p.26
- ^ Hazara Gazetteer
- ^ Gazetteer, p.26
- ^ Gazetteer p 26
- ^ "Tareekh e Sarfaroshan e Sarhad"
- ^ "Hazara Gazetteer,1883 and 1907"
- ^ "Tareekh e Sarfaroshan e Sarhad"
- ^ [dubious ]As he did not have any offspring, a new chief Sardar Karam Khan[dubious ][verification needed] was elected from a collateral branch and this family remained in the chiefdom until April 1889, when the Tareen/Tarin chiefdom in Hazara was formally abolished by the Government of British India
- ^ Correspondence between[verification needed] Sir Henry Lawrence at Lahore and Lord Dalhousie at Calcutta and Simla, March to May 1849, Punjab Records Office, Lahore, Acc No F/OBR/1849-50/201-209
- ^ Largely through the intercession of Colonel Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (later FM Lord Napier of Magdala); see H Lee Brothers in the Raj: The Lives of John and Henry Lawrence, Karachi: OUP, 2003, 257
- All accuracy disputes
- Articles with disputed statements from January 2020
- All pages needing factual verification
- Justapedia articles needing factual verification from January 2020
- Articles with invalid date parameter in template
- Justapedia articles needing reorganization from May 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from May 2012
- All articles lacking reliable references
- Articles with multiple maintenance issues
- Pashtun people
- People from Haripur District
- 1825 deaths
- Year of birth unknown