My Ancestors
This information was from an old aunt and village astrologer narrated to me when i was 10 years old.
Seven generation back one Maghu Patnaik came from Khurda (Bhubaneswar belong to this district) to a place known as Anandpur in Keonjhar. He was educated but no land, as in those days only eldest son gets the properties. He served the King as a Manager and at the time of his retirement King offered him any land, and he preferred a piece of 500 acres at the boundary of the state, so that he can escape to Mugal ruled area in case any turmoil, in a village known as Orali
About three generation later, my great grandfather was a younger son, hence had no property. He started practising ayurvedic medicine in and around the village and educated his son in primary education in Bengali, as was the practice in those days. He passed Vernacular Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery from Orissa Medical School in the year 1889. The certificate framed in g;ass measures one and a half feet by two feet or so, printed probably in mission press of Cuttack. The name Koonja Behary Patnaik was written in Harida fruit's ink in a pen in flowing English, signed my Civil Surgeon (a Major of Army Medical Corps).
He served as a medical officer in Keonjha and later at Bonai -another state, became a sanyasi at a later period. My father being the younger one did not get any sustenance from him, since the elder one could pass primary education of course with English.
My father's journey i shall write later.
This information was from an old aunt and village astrologer narrated to me when i was 10 years old.
Seven generation back one Maghu Patnaik came from Khurda (Bhubaneswar belong to this district) to a place known as Anandpur in Keonjhar. He was educated but no land, as in those days only eldest son gets the properties. He served the King as a Manager and at the time of his retirement King offered him any land, and he preferred a piece of 500 acres at the boundary of the state, so that he can escape to Mugal ruled area in case any turmoil, in a village known as Orali
About three generation later, my great grandfather was a younger son, hence had no property. He started practising ayurvedic medicine in and around the village and educated his son in primary education in Bengali, as was the practice in those days. He passed Vernacular Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery from Orissa Medical School in the year 1889. The certificate framed in g;ass measures one and a half feet by two feet or so, printed probably in mission press of Cuttack. The name Koonja Behary Patnaik was written in Harida fruit's ink in a pen in flowing English, signed my Civil Surgeon (a Major of Army Medical Corps).
He served as a medical officer in Keonjha and later at Bonai -another state, became a sanyasi at a later period. My father being the younger one did not get any sustenance from him, since the elder one could pass primary education of course with English.
My father's journey i shall write later.
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