Naromurar Ancient Kachahari
Before the advent of Independence in 1947 AD, Bihar was one of the provinces under the rule of British Raj.In 1936 Bihar and Orissa province was declared as separate provinces of Bihar and Orissa under the Government of India Act 1935 passed by the parliament of United Kingdom, before the year of 1912 Bihar and Orissa province was the part of Bengal presidency.For administrative purposes the provinces were divided into several parts having a Zamindar as the head of each, over time they took princely and royal titles such as Maharaja, Nawab, Mirza and many others.Naromurar was one of the 2046 villages of South Bihar under the jurisdiction of Tekari Maharaj.In 1764 after the decisive victory in Battle of buxar by British East India Company fought with combined army of Nawab of Awadh, Nawab of Bengal and Mughal emperor at Buxar, then within the territory of Bengal, a town located on the bank of Ganges river about 130 km west of Patna, an agreement of Permanent settlement Act was signed in 1793 between East India Company and Bengali landlords to fix revenues to be raised from land. Earlier Zamindars in Bengal, Bihar and Odisha had been functionaries who held the right to collect revenue on behalf of the Mughal emperor. By the permanent settlement act of 1793, the zamindars power of keeping the armed forces were taken back and they remained just the tax collectors of the land.
Before the advent of Independence in 1947 AD, Bihar was one of the provinces under the rule of British Raj.In 1936 Bihar and Orissa province was declared as separate provinces of Bihar and Orissa under the Government of India Act 1935 passed by the parliament of United Kingdom, before the year of 1912 Bihar and Orissa province was the part of Bengal presidency.For administrative purposes the provinces were divided into several parts having a Zamindar as the head of each, over time they took princely and royal titles such as Maharaja, Nawab, Mirza and many others.Naromurar was one of the 2046 villages of South Bihar under the jurisdiction of Tekari Maharaj.In 1764 after the decisive victory in Battle of buxar by British East India Company fought with combined army of Nawab of Awadh, Nawab of Bengal and Mughal emperor at Buxar, then within the territory of Bengal, a town located on the bank of Ganges river about 130 km west of Patna, an agreement of Permanent settlement Act was signed in 1793 between East India Company and Bengali landlords to fix revenues to be raised from land. Earlier Zamindars in Bengal, Bihar and Odisha had been functionaries who held the right to collect revenue on behalf of the Mughal emperor. By the permanent settlement act of 1793, the zamindars power of keeping the armed forces were taken back and they remained just the tax collectors of the land.
Ancient Naromurar kachahari
Tikari Maharaj Mitrajeet Singh (1763-1840AD)
The power of zamindars were considerably weakened as they were not allowed to hold any court as it was brought under the supervision of collector appointed by the company. They did not want to take direct control of local administration in villages because of several reasons, they did not want to annoy those people who had traditionally enjoyed power and prestige in the village.In the centre of the village there used to be a big Ficus religiosa tree, under it's shade a delegation having the associates of zamindar used to collect the revenues from the villagers during the zamindari period. The place is still known as kachahari (court), after the independence several temples has been built inside the kachahari campus but that peepal tree can still be found reminding us about the zamindari era.Along with Naromurar there were nine more villages under the jurisdiction of this Kachahari and the villagers from all those villages had to report there in order to pay their taxes.Villages under the jurisdiction of Naromurar Kachahari - Naromurar, Khirbhojana, Kutari, Tullapur, Gorapar, Paingari, Rampur, Masalkhama, Shankarbigha, BasochakThe Court commonly consists of four peo.ple having their designations as - Gomastha - a paid manager of the zamindarPatwari - employed for accounting purposesBarahil - to carry the tax collectedChaukidar - to provide the security