Awayan

Anwayan Village
Village
Anwayan Location in Uttar Pradesh, India Anwayan Anwayan (India)
Coordinates: 26°06′30″N 83°51′35″E
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ballia
Subdistrict	Siar
Population  (2011)
• Total	5,604
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
Pincode	221715
Telephone code	05461

Awayan is a village near Belthra Road Railway Station in Ballia District, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. District Ballia, U.P, India (Formerly in District of Azam Garh UP). The population was 5,604 at the 2011 Indian Census.

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History of Anwayan

It was during the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq in Delhi that our ancestor at Anwayan (Mooris-e-Ala) Sheikh Bahauddin, a descendant of Abu Ayub Ansari, was awarded an estate (Ta'alluqa) consisting of 52 villages by royal decree in the 14th century AD and he settled down there.

It is stated that one Raja Bhimal of Majhauli estate (District Deoria UP) refused to pay the customary annual loyalty/ protection money to the throne which signified a sort of revolt. He was accordingly apprehended and brought to Delhi. On his pardon and release a contingent of royal troops under the command of Sheikh Bahauddin was sent with him to install him back and keep a watch. Sheikh Bahauddin was accompanied by his wife and his younger brother Sheikh Nizamuddin.

While there in Majhauli they often used to cross over to the other side of the river Ghagra for hunting, which was ruled by another Raja Rajbar with his capital at Chohangarh. The Raja kidnapped the daughter of his Diwan (Chief Advisor). Help was sought from Sheikh Bahauddin and, in the ensuing battle, the Raja was defeated and killed and the girl restored to her family. The Raja's estate of 52 villages was also confiscated and awarded to Sheikh Bahauddin, half of which he gave to his younger brother. The descendants of these two brothers are now settled in these villages with the family name of Ansaris.

The Siddiqui's branch of Anwayan originally came from Siddiquis of Harihans Dist. Sewan, Bihar when Sheikh Tabarak Hussain married the only daughter of Sheikh Chiragh Ali of Anwayan and settled down there. She had full or partial share in about eight villages around. Sheikh Tabarak Hussain was a great organizer and administrator. He reorganized the cultivation policy and revenue system, attracted craftsmen, service providers and farm labor to settle on the land to make it a self-contained village. He got the land registered as "Waqw-al-Awlad" which meant joint ownership by the family to protect against bifurcation and individual sale etc. He reserved a portion of the land as "Waqf" for the village Mosque, Eidgah, Grave Yard and also gave away land for the village primary school and for a middle school in the market place. He organized a quick justice system for his tenants and the hall reserved for this purpose is still called "Kutchehri".

He died in 1899 at the age of 63 and his second son Shahid Hussain took over the affairs with formal "Dastar-Bandi" Ceremony in accordance with family traditions. The Family of Anwayan got an early start in western education by sending (Barrister) Mohammad Sami for his bar-at-law to England as early as in 1910. He returned in 1914 (on completion of his studies just before the beginning of the 1st World War) with an English wife. He had hardly settled down in his professional practice in Banaras when he died in 1918. He had three sisters, the eldest was married to Sheikh Shahid Hussain, the next to Sheikh Abid Hussain and the youngest one to Sheikh Nizamuddin of Hari Hans. Barrister Sami's widow along with her children shifted to Anwayan and then went back to England with them. Nothing is known about the family now specially after 1935. This was all a great set back to the family. The family was steered back to western education with the initiative of Sheikh Abid Hussain, when he sent Nasir Hussain Siddiqui to Muslim university of Aligarh in 1934. With the present disposition the family now is dispersed over many continents/countries like Australia, United States of America, Canada, England, Gulf States, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, England etc..

THE ABOVE WRITE UP RELATES ONLY TO SIDDIQUIS OF ANWAYAN WHO TRACE THEIR ANCESTORY TO SHEIKH TABARAK HUSSAIN WHO MIGRATED FROM HARIHANS AND SETTLED DOWN AT ANWAYAN AFTER MARRYING THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF SHEIKH CHIRAGH ALI. The history of ancestors of Sheikh Tabarak Hussain (and including his descendants in Anwayan) has been ably chronicled by Ch. Shaikh Mohd.Zaki Siddiqui Saheb (1874-1946) in his well researched book entitled "TAREEKH - UL- HARIHANS WITH KHANDANI SHIJRA". This work has further been updated by his able son, Mr. Mashkoor Ahmad Siddiqui who currently lives with his son Dr. Jamshed Siddiqui in New Delhi after retiring from the service of Indian Railways.

GM Siddiqui (last paragraph added by Javed Nasir, son of late Mr. Nasir Hussain Siddiqui S/O Late Shaikh Abid Hussain)