A owner, a historian and the Ganges – Why India’s visit to Patna to spread ashes in an American family river

“He (Hausar) often told us that his last wish was his ashes immersed in the Ganges-that river which was very close to Swami’s social-agricultural-cultural cause,” his son Michael Hausar, a professor at Duke University, said as Indian Express-a container houzer Roshan and a container told his wife.

While Hausar died in 2019, Rosemary died in 2001. The date of immersion is important – this year is the anniversary of the 75th death of Saraswati on 26 June, a Bihar leader played an important role in a movement in a movement, which eradicated the zamindarry system in India. Patna, meanwhile, holds a special place in the heart of the Hosar family – this is the place where they have spent an important part of their early life.

To mark the occasion, the family’s two generations – Michael, his sister Sheela, wife Elizabeth and niece Rosemary – have come to India. Hoster’s two most prominent students with this group are Historians William R Pinch and Wendy singers.

In Gola Road in Patna – Seven Americans discussed Walter Hosar, Swamy and his great Indian connection in the house of Kailash Chandra Jha, an Indian scholar and close aide of Hausar.

Michael said, “There is something divine about the month of June.” “My father was born and died in June. My mother was also born in June. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati also died in June.”

Jha said, “Americans usually prefer to travel to India in winter, but they (Hausters) used to call on June to be a part of an important opportunity to be a part of an important occasion.”

He said, “Another thing that could bring him here in June is common,” he said in the gest.

It was in 1957 that Walter Hausar came to India for the first time. A scholar is deeply interested in “Kisan Study”, Hosar chose undivided Bihar for his thesis.

In the 1920s and under Saraswati, the biggest gathering of farmers was to raise farmers in Bihar in the 30s. Born as Naurrang Rai in Gazipur, Uttar Pradesh, Saraswati, who established the Shri Sitaram Ashram in Bihta near Patna, established the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPK) in 1929 and launched a peasant movement in 1936 in the establishment of All India Kesan Sabha.

After the first visit in 1957, Hosar, who traveled to India, has been traveled more often, including the journey of Barhia Taal in Lakhisarai, Bihar – in the 1930s, the Barahia Taal landing land movement for tenants rights.

Despite writing his thesis on the peasant movement, Hosar was reluctant to turn it into a book, his family said. This was Kailash Chandra Jha, who was now the president of Sri Sitaram Ashram, who once repeatedly committed a historian who convinced him to do so in 2018, thus a study of an Indian movement: Thus a study of an Indian movement.

In the same year, Husar and Jha translated the autobiography of Saraswati, my life union, English. Co-writer, book, My Life Struggle, by Hosor and Jha is quoted as a seminal work, which helped the American scholar understand and analyze Saraswati’s contribution.

Haasar’s children, Michael and Sheela, recalled their father’s stories of Saraswati’s “extraordinary fight for ordinary men”.

“I remember how we will hold meetings with South East Asian scholars on many Fridays. My father was so immersed in Swami’s principles that every discussion in these meetings will be around his (Saraswati) life and time and permanent influence on the life of common people,” said Michael, who went to the primary school in lease, said. Sheela said, “My father’s legacy has now been transferred to the third generation with my daughter Rosemary Hausar Jose.”

On mentioning his name, Rosemary, which is in the early 20s, smiled and said, “I have grown up to listen to the stories of Swami from my grandparents. Swami is now a part of our life.”

Hasar’s student William R. Pinch and Wendy Cynder, Bhi, have been greatly influenced by the ideological inclination of Hausar, both have focused on their work on Indo-Center for Indo-Center. Professor Pinch of History and Global South Asian Studies at Wesleyan University has written several books on Indian history, including warriors, ascetics and Indian Empire and Indian Empire and farmer and farmers and monks in British India. Similarly, singer is an associate professor in South Asian history and director of International Studies at Ohio’s Gambier’s Canian College, whose body includes books such as independent India and construction: the oral story and politics of history.

Talking about Saraswati’s legacy, Pinch said, “The monks have been the tools of social and political changes. Even Mahatma Gandhi once visited Allahabad to attend the Kumbh Mela and understand the social and religious connect of ascetic and sannyas. The monks will leave their family behind, but still work for the society.”

The influence of Saraswati can be seen how the opposition of farmers in Punjab forced the central government to withdraw the controversial agricultural laws, the singer, who returned to India after 40 years, said. He said, “Swami’s life and work show the vibrancy of democracy in India. Walter was designed for Swami because he led a social change in Bihar – the land of movements,” he said.

Jha, which has played an important role in keeping the legacy of the social reformer alive, spoke about the time when Hossor, the then President of India in the 1950s. The audience was demanded with Rajendra Prasad.

“His first request was dismissed outright. Then he wrote another letter, stating that as a Fulbright Scholar, he wanted to pay his honor to the President. This time, he got 15 minutes. Dr. Rajendra Prasad came to meet him to wear his signature hat.

Dr. Satyajit Singh, a prominent Patna Doctor and a trustee from the Bihata Ashram, said: “We are overwhelmed in the Hosar family coming to Patna, which is to pay an unusual tribute to pay an unusual tribute to the anniversary of Swami’s 75th death.