How much do you want to know? I have heaps of documents to quote from. I am not a fool that I will annoy the central government by misleading it, he said. Sharing the knowledge of Sarkar, a source close to him said the seer often narrates the story about the gold which was looted by some freedom fighters, led by Maulvi Liyaqat Ali, from the fort of Allahabad on June 14, 1857. Ali was a relative of the zamindars of Chail Pargana in Allahabad and also close to the talukdars of different estates between Allahabad and Faizabad. He had declared major parts of Allahabad as independent from the British rule during the Mutiny of 1857. He handed over the looted gold to Nana Sahib Dhondu Pant, the adopted son of Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II and chieftain of Bithur, to hide somewhere. When Brigadier General James George Smith Neill started searching for this gold, it was brought to Daundia Khera and buried somewhere on the campus of the fort of Rao Ram Baksh Singh. Looted gold Ali was captured and awarded life imprisonment in 1872. He was sent to Port Blair jail. Rao Ram Baksh Singh was also captured by the British forces and hanged to death. This gold was actually confiscated by the British from small Indian chieftains or collected in the form of lagaan (land tax) from farmers. This was the reason that the rebels during the Mutiny did not mind confiscating it from the fort of Allahabad, the source said. There is another document in the possession of Sarkar that says that Rao Ram Baksh Singh was essentially a trader of gold and silver. He was running his business in Kanpur. His ancestors had also buried huge cache of gold under the palace. The revolutionaries used to trust him and give the looted gold and silver to him in return of cash to carry forward their movement, the source said. We dont know whether the gold is still there or not. But it is a fact that most of these documents were available in the ashram of Shobhan when Viraktanand (presently known as Shobhan Sarkar) took diksha from guru Raghunandan Das. He studied these documents. Obviously, it haunts him in his dreams, the source claimed. Read more at: indiatoday.intoday.in/story/unnao-gold-hunt-asi-up-gold-hunt-shobhan-sarkar-rao-ram-baksh-singh/1/317146.html
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:36:42 +0000
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