Neyamatpur
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Neyamatpur नियामतपुर |
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 Neyamatpur
 Neyamatpur
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| Coordinates: 24°56′20″N 84°59′10″E / 24.938821°N 84.986007°ECoordinates: 24°56′20″N 84°59′10″E / 24.938821°N 84.986007°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | Bihar |
| District | Gaya |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Magahi, Hindi |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 804 403 |
| Telephone code | 631 |
Neyamatpur is a village in Gaya district of Bihar, India. The village was a bastion of the Indian National Congress and Kisan Andolan during the British period. "Pandit" Yadunandan Sharma, at the instruction of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati established an ashram here in 1933.
Neyamatpur is derived from the Urdu word (from Persian) niyamat, meaning blessing and the Sanskrit word pur, meaning village. Hence, Neyamatpur translates to the "Blessed Village" or the "Village of Blessings". Not much known is known of the history of the village beyond a hundred years due to the lack of the written record.
After it was established by Yadunandan Sharma, at the instruction of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati in 1933, it saw a large number of freedom fighters visiting. In 1935, Jawaharlal Nehru came to the Ashram and donated a bag of 450 silver coins to the Deen Bandhu Library established by Amarnath Diwan. The library was subsequently renamed after Nehru's wife Kamala to Kamala Pustakalaya. Nothing remains of the library and other original ashram. However, the site of the ashram is still called the Ashram and a new building in a different spot at the site is now referred to as the Ashram. This building has housed a school at various times in the past decades.
Amongst the founders of Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Prof N G Ranga, Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna, Bankim Mukherjee, Acharya Narendra Deva, Yadunandan Sharma, E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Dr ZA Ahmad, Indulal Yajnik were prominent. In July 1936, a meeting of Central Committee of Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha was held at Neyamatpur chaired by Dr Rajendra Prasad, who later became the first President of India. A legislation was passed and the 'Red Flag' was adopted as the flag of Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha. In the meeting, Indulal Yajnik, Prof Ranga, Shardul Singh, Kapishwar, Mohanlal Goutam, K Shakadev Malviya, Sri Ramanda Mishra etc. were present. In 1936 Kisan Satyagraha was conducted at Sahwaspur, Belaganj from Neyamatpur Ashram after 1st Kisan Satyagraha at Vardoli and also at Sanda, Manjhiawan, Reura, Agandha and Bhalua villages of Gaya district in 1937. In 1942, bullets were fired at the Ashram and the library Kamala Pustakalya was damaged by a British Police Officer "Tomeo". The bullet-ridden door survived several decades only to be used as cooking fuel by a villager who inherited the Ashram land. In 1950, Mohan Singh, the Commander General of the Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army) visited the Ashram. "Sarvodaya Neta" Jaiprakash Narayan visited the Ashram in 1958 after he joined the Sarvodaya Movement. Jagjivan Ram, then the Defence Minister of India visited the Ashram and the village in 1973 on the occasion of 40th Anniversary of the Ashram. Pandit Yadunandan Sharma spent later part of his life at the Ashram where he died in 1975 and his body was cremated here and a Smarak built. The Ashram subsequently went into decadence and only its ruins can be seen at the site.
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