Hanumangarh district

Hanumangarh District is a district of Rajasthan state of western India. The town of Hanumangarh is the district headquarters.

The district is located in the extreme north of Rajasthan. It has an area of 12,645 km², a population of 1,517,390 (2001 census), and a population density of 120 persons/km². It is bounded on the north by Punjab state, on the east by Haryana state, on the south by Churu District of Rajasthan, and on the west by Ganganagar District of Rajasthan. The major work of the district is farming; major crops include rice, bajra, cotton, sonamukhi, wheat, and vegetables.

This is the 31st district of Rajasthan. It was made as district on 12th July, 1994 from Sri Ganganagar district. Earlier it was one of the Tahsils of Sri Ganganagar district.

The district contains the archeological site of Kalibangan, (a town of the Indus Valley Civilisation), and Pallu.

Language

Bagri [ Lakhan Gusain 2000. Bagri. Munich: Lincom Europa (Languages of the World/Materials, 384)] , a dialect of Rajasthani language, is spoken by majority of population. Besides, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu are also in use in this district. The linguistic survery of Bagri was carried our by a team of scholars of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1993 under the supervision of professor Lakhan Gusain, (who himself is from Hanumangarh district and now professor at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC) and it was a major development for linguistic work on Bagri. A lot of research work (given in references) is done on Bagri in recent times.Now, Bagri has a reference grammar, dictionary, primers, and other reference material. The prominent poet on Bagri was Chander Singh "Birkali" who wrote "Loon" and "Badli" poems in the early-twentienth century.Some samples of Bagri are:

* क्यूकर है ?
* नास में आन्गळी ना ले
* सलिमों देखण चालसी के ?
* तेरै बळत के है ?
* तन्नै कुचरणीं ही लेणीं है के ?
* टींगर जे तेरै फिन्च्यां मैं लट्ठ प्या दियो नी तो मोरिया ही बोलसी.
* इन्नै आ तनै सलिमों दिखाऊं
* गोळालाठी लगाणी पड़सी तेरै
* क्यामी राफ चोड़ी करै है रे?
* धापली मोती सामैं अंग्रेजी कोनी बोल सकै नी.
* बातां गा पीसा लागै.
* सत्संग मैं घाघरियो ना झड़का

Tehsils

Hanumangarh District has seven tehsils: Hanumangarh, Sangaria, Pilibanga, Rawatsar, Nohar, Bhadra,andTibbi.

Prominent Persons

* Manoj Kumar: (born July 24, 1937, at Abbottabad) is an Indian actor and director in the Bollywood film industry, Mumbai (Bombay).
* Tara Sharma: (born 1945 at village Daniyasar)is an Indian actor and director in the Bollywood film industry, Mumbai(Bombay).
* Chander Singh "Birkali"(1910-1980): Famous first modern poet of [Rajasthani language] from village Birkali). His works are "Loon" (Summer wind) and "Badli" (Tiny clouds).
* Luxmi Kumari Chundawat(1911-): famous writer of Rajasthani language. Her works are "keh re Chakwaa Baat", and "Mumal".
* Lakhan Gusain (1966) : linguist of Rajasthani language and professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.
* Asha Ram Sihag (1956-): IAS officer, Himachal Pradesh Cader.
* Raj Kumar(1971): A former student of Jawaharlal Nehru University and currently, an IAS officer posted at Mumbai (Bombay).
* Smt. Santosh Kumari : (1952) Staff Nurse in Health Department. Posted in Municipality Hospital Sangaria. Devoted her life towards health of people and fighting against diseases, hunger, water for poor people. Sangaria's proud lady in Health Department.A well known personality among people over there. Strong Person by birth who believes in truth and God. She always remains away from politics and Union. she likes mixing up with poor, bheel, gypsy's and Bishnoi woman and educated them about their health and how to fight against women diseases and poverty.

References

*Gusain, Lakhan. 1994. Reflexives in Bagri. M.Phil. dissertation. New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University
*Gusain, Lakhan. 1999. A Descriptive Grammar of Bagri. Ph.D. dissertation. New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University
*Gusain, Lakhan. 2000a. Limitations of Literacy in Bagri. Nicholas Ostler & Blair Rudes (eds.). Endangered Languages and Literacy. Proceedings of the Fourth FEL Conference. University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 21-24 September, 2000
*Gusain, Lakhan. 2000b. Bagri. Munich: Lincom Europa (Languages of the World/Materials, 384)

External links

*Rajasthani language
*List of winners of Sahitya Akademi Awards for writing in Rajasthani language
*List of Rajasthani poets
* [http://www.bastigiri.org/crs Centre for Rajasthani Studies]
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90927 Ethnologue Report for Rajasthani]
* [http://www.bastigiri.org/lakhan/rajbiblio.html Rajasthani Bibliography]
* [http://www.jatland.com/home/Rajasthani_Language Online Rajasthani-English Dictionary]
*List of Indian poets#Rajasthani

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