Kudan, Rajasthan
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Kudan कूदन Koodan,कूदण |
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 Kudan
Kudan
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| Coordinates: 27°45′N 75°10′E / 27.75°N 75.16°ECoordinates: 27°45′N 75°10′E / 27.75°N 75.16°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | Rajasthan |
| District | Sikar |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 3,929 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| • Spoken(Colloquial) | Shekhawati |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 332031 |
| Telephone code | 91-1572 |
| ISO 3166 code | RJ-IN |
| Vehicle registration | RJ-23 |
| Nearest city | Sikar |
| Avg. summer temperature | 35–40 °C (95–104 °F) |
| Avg. winter temperature | 15–18 °C (59–64 °F) |
Kudan is a village in Sikar district in Rajasthan, India. It is relatively a well-developed village which is connected by roads and with all forms of modern communication facilities. The majority population of the village belongs to Jat community with Sunda and Maharia representing largest and second largest gotras respectively in terms of numbers. Moreover, other castes are Harijans and Nayaks(Dalits), Rajputs(Shekhawat), Brahmins, Khati(Jangir), Sunar(Soni (caste)), Daroga, Nai (caste). There is also a marginal population of Muslims as well. The village came into prominence during British Raj for its role in freedom movement and abolition of Jagirs.
Kunwar Bagh Singh son of Rao Samrath Singh of Torawati, Patan (1748–1754) was thakur of Koodan under Sikar thikana and his brother Kunwar Guman Singh of Magloona village.
Before independence the conditions of the farmers were worst. The farmers of the Shekhawati region were exploited and oppressed by the Jagirdars during British Raj. They were deprived of fundamental rights. They were given inhuman treatment when the Jagirdars did not get cesses known as “lag” (tax) or “begar” (unpaid work) in time, they were given hard punishments and their crop used to be destroyed. Every thing that the farmers had, never treated as his own. In Jagir areas all cultivators were really landless. There was no tenancy law and one could be thrown away from the land one cultivated at the pleasure of Jagirdar, his "malik" (owner). In most of the Jagirs a Jagirdar would in the first instance be taking fifty percent of the produce. This would be taken by actual division of the produce on the thrashing floor or by appraisal of the standing crop (kunta). Then over and above the share of the produce the farmers had to pay numerous "lags" or cesses. There were 37 kinds of ‘lags” prevalent in the Shekhawati area. Together with the share of the produce known as "Hasil" (share) these cesses meant that the farmers had to part with more than eighty percent of their produce. The findings of the Sukhdeonarain Committee in the years 1940-42 bear this out. If a farmer had to marry his daughter he had to pay "Chavri Lag" (marriage tax), if he held a dinner then a "Kansa Lag"; if members of the family separated then "Dhunwa Lag" (house tax) and so on. If the Jagirdar had a guest then fodder for his mount had to be supplied. Then there was "begar" that is forced labour, for tilling the personal lands of the Jagirdar. The homestead in which the farmers lived in the habitation had to be vacated in case he ceased cultivating the land. He could not alienate the plot to anyone.
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