Question

Why it is not relevant to explore Relation between Ghiyasuddin n Gangadhar Nehru in nation interest ?

Answer 1

Maybe!!

Nehru family basically belonged to Kashmir. Jawaharlal Nehru  in his autobiography "Meri Kahani" has written that  Farrukhsiyar( He was the Mughal emperor between 1713 and 1719) himself has brought his family to Delhi in late 1716 and settled there. In those days there use to be a Nahar(canal) in Chandni Chowk and because of the Nahar his family became to be known as Nehru.

Before the revolt of 1857, Jawaharlal Nehru's grandfather Gangadhar Nehru was a Kotwalof Delhi in the reign of Bahadur Shah Zafar. But when historians explored they found that city's Kotwal was a important position like today's police commissioner and such important positions were only offered to Muslims and essentially to their own Muslim offspring.  A Hindu to be appointed to such an important position was not at all likely. Mughal records also show that such an important position was not given to any Hindu in the reign of Bahadur Shah Zafar. After enough investigation it was found that two Nayab(deputy) Kotwal were Hindu. Their names were Bhau Singh and  Kashinath and they were posted in Lahore Gate, Delhi. But no record of a person named Gangadhar were found. The historians have confirmed that Ghiyasuddin Ghazi was the name of city Kotwal in that time.

In the mutiny because of the awful carnage many families along with his family were completely ruined and all the documents and letters related to his family were destroyed. In this way after losing everything they fled to Agra and they started a new life there.