Tewatia, Tewathia, Tebatiya, Tevatia, Tiwathia or Teotia is clan or gotra found in Jats of Haryana, Rajasthan, Western Uttar Pradesh and Delhi in India. Population of Tevatia Jats is mainly concentrated in Faridabad, Bulandshahr, Bharatpur,[meerut] Mathura, Ghaziabad, Aligarh districts. There are some villages of Tevatias in Bijnor, Moradabad, Nainital districts also. Some Tewatia are found in Delhi also (Saidulajab Village).
Tevatia jats believe that they have migrated from a village named Tevti/Teoti. There is one village of this name in Bharatpur. There is also a village of this name near Ujjain. The River Tapti is considered to be named after this gotra. The country of Tibet is also believed to be named after this gotra.
Of similar names in other countries, there is one tribe named Teuton in Europe and Germany. Britannica mentions Teutons as an ancient Germanic tribe who originally dwelt in Jutland and Scandinavia. According to Bhim Singh Dahiya, Teuton and Teotia are the same and the only difference is due to the languages in which these are written. Tevatia jats are believed to have come to India in 8th century B.C. during Pre-Mauryan period from Iran. The word Tevatia has no meaning in Hindi or Sanskrit languages. In Persian Tevatia word is found which means Goddess of fire. Their village, Januthal, in Bharatpur (Rajasthan), is more than 2400 years old. About 900 years back some Tewatia Jats crossed Yamuna river and founded present Bhatona village in Gulawthi (Bulandshahr) UP. Along with them went some Dagar and Rawat Jats also from Palwal. Palwal and Batana again are Persian names. Ec-Batana used to be the ancient capital of Iran during Pre-Mauryan time. Palwal is named after Pallavassur, the Pallavs of Indian history and Pahlavi's of Iran. Princely state of Ballabgarh was founded by Raja Balram Singh alias Ballu. Later Raja Nahar Singh took part in 1857 revolution. Singh controlled Delhi for a few months and was later hanged at Chandni Chowk Delhi as a martyre. Also Some Tevatia migrated from Bhatona to Partapur-245304 village near Pilkhuwa.
Another interesting village is in the middle of Delhi – "Said-ul- Ajaib", near Qutab Minar, Mehrauli. It is said that this was settled by four Tevatia migrants who came in from Bharatpur / Kondal Village near hathin, Palwal in 1850s or around 1815 and took refuge in a cave inhabited by a Muslim Sayyed (Saint) who performed "Ajeeb" (quaint) acts. This cave was in the current location of the Paryavaran Complex, hence the name Said-ul Ajaib. Today, this place is on the Delhi tourist map for the "Garden of Five Senses". This is also soon to be connected by the Delhi Metro.
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| Coordinates | 28°36′50″N77°12′32″N |
|---|---|
| Name | Ravi Shankar |
| Img alt | An old man sits on a platform and holds a long-necked lute while looking to the side. |
| Background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Birth name | Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury |
| Born | April 07, 1920 Varanasi, United Provinces, Indian Empire |
| Instrument | sitar |
| Genre | Hindustani classical music |
| Occupation | composer, musician |
| Years active | 1939–present |
| Url | RaviShankar.org |
| Associated acts | Uday Shankar, Allauddin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Lakshmi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin, Chatur Lal, Alla Rakha, George Harrison, Anoushka Shankar |
Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.
Shankar completed his training in 1944. Shankar recomposed the music for the popular song "Sare Jahan Se Achcha" at the age of 25. He began to record music for HMV India and worked as a music director for All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi, from February 1949 to January 1956. Beginning in the mid-1950s he composed the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, which became internationally acclaimed.
Shankar heard about the positive response Khan received and resigned from AIR in 1956 to tour the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. He played for smaller audiences and educated them about Indian music, incorporating ragas from the South Indian Carnatic music in his performances, and recorded his first LP album Three Ragas in London, released in 1956.
Shankar befriended Richard Bock, founder of World Pacific Records, on his first American tour and recorded most of his albums in the 1950s and 1960s for Bock's label. Harrison became interested in Indian classical music, bought a sitar and used it to record the song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". This led to Indian music being used by other musicians and created the raga rock trend. During the visit, a documentary film about Shankar named Raga was shot by Howard Worth, and released in 1971. Shankar's association with Harrison greatly increased Shankar's popularity and Ken Hunt of Allmusic would state that Shankar had become "the most famous Indian musician on the planet" by 1966. The same year, the Beatles won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band which included "Within You Without You" by Harrison, a song that was influenced by Indian classical music.
In October 1970 Shankar became chair of the department of Indian music of the California Institute of the Arts after previously teaching at the City College of New York, the University of California, Los Angeles, and being guest lecturer at other colleges and universities, including the Ali Akbar College of Music. Hans Neuhoff of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart has criticized the usage of the orchestra in this concert as "amateurish".
During the 1970s, Shankar and Harrison worked together again, recording Shankar Family and Friends in 1974 and touring North America to a mixed response after Shankar had toured Europe. The demanding North America tour weakened Shankar, and he suffered a heart attack in Chicago in September 1974, causing him to cancel a portion of the tour. In his absence, Shankar's sister-in-law, singer Lakshmi Shankar, conducted the touring orchestra. Shankar was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for his work on the 1982 movie Gandhi, but lost to John Williams' E.T. He served as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India, from 12 May 1986 to 11 May 1992, after being nominated by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Shankar composed the dance drama Ghanashyam in 1989. Because of the positive response to Shankar's 1996 career compilation In Celebration, Shankar wrote a second autobiography, Raga Mala, with Harrison as editor. In the 2000s, he won a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album for and toured with Anoushka, who released a book about her father, Bapi: Love of My Life, in 2002. Anoushka performed a composition by Shankar for the 2002 Harrison memorial Concert for George and Shankar wrote a third concerto for sitar and orchestra for Anoushka and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Shankar played his last European concert in June 2008. Hans Neuhoff of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart has argued that Shankar's playing style was not widely adopted and that he was surpassed by other sitar players in the performance of melodic passages. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1962, and was named a Fellow of the academy for 1975. Shankar was awarded the three highest national civil honors of India: Padma Bhushan, in 1967, Padma Vibhushan, in 1981, and Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He received the music award of the UNESCO International Music Council in 1975, three Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Shankar is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1997 received the Praemium Imperiale for music from the Japan Art Association.
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