Genealogical History of the Dixit Family

A Genealog­i­cal His­to­ry of the Dix­it Family

By Jagdish Chan­dra Dikshit

(Note: the date of writ­ing is unknown–probably in the ear­ly 1980s)

My great grand father, PUTTILAL DIKSHIT resided at CHAMIYANI vil­lage in dis­trict UNAO in Uttar Pradesh. Our ances­tors had migrat­ed to CHAMIYANI about 5 or 6 gen­er­a­tions before him from dis­trict KANNOJ (Kanyakub­ja) Uttar Pradesh. This was our orig­i­nal home. As such we are KANYAKUBJA Brah­mins who are gen­er­al­ly con­sid­ered as the high­est among Brah­mins in India.

At CHAMIYANI we still own a piece of cul­tivable land which is at present being looked after by my father’s step sis­ter GANGADULARI wife of SARJU PRASAD TIWARI. Pan­dit PUTTILAL was a priest by pro­fes­sion and was held in high esteem by the local population.

My grand father SHIVADARSHAN DIKSHIT was born in CHAMIYANI in 1863 and lived to a ripe old age of 99 years and died at INDORE in 1962 when I was post­ed there as D.I.G. Police. He was also a priest and a San­skrit schol­ar. He was also an astrologer and used to pre­pare horo­scope besides per­form­ing mar­riages and thread cer­e­monies of high class peo­ple. He was a saint­ly man and spent most of his time in study­ing and recit­ing scrip­tures. He had only one meal a day and I had nev­er seen him falling ill except the last few days of his life.

He had mar­ried twice. My father RAMADHAR was the only child from his first wife RAMDEVI. She died when my father was only six years old. He was mar­ried again to SHIVDEVI from whom he had four daugh­ters. The eldest was SARASWATI (D) was mar­ried to SHIVNANDAN SHUKLA (D) a busi­ness­man. The sec­ond VISHNUDULARI was mar­ried to GANGASAGAR TIWARI (D) and is at present resid­ing at Cal­cut­ta. The third SUNDER mar­ried to MAHADEO PRASAD TIWARI a busi­ness­man at Indore, and the fourth GANGADULARI mar­ried to SARJU PRASAD TIWARI resid­ing in CHAMIYANI and look­ing after the farmland.

My father RAMADHAR was born in CHAMIYANI in 1887 and had his pri­ma­ry edu­ca­tion at CHAMIYANI. Lat­er on he shift­ed to NAGPUR and AKOLA (Maha­rash­tra) along with my grand father who used to vis­it these places in his pro­fes­sion­al capac­i­ty. He used to per­form var­i­ous reli­gious cer­e­monies and rit­u­als at the hous­es of fam­i­lies from CHAMIYANI and neigh­bour­ing places. They had set­tled down at these places in con­nec­tion with their busi­ness or service.

My father had his high school and col­lege edu­ca­tion in NAGPUR. He passed his B.Sc. from Col­lege of Sci­ence in NAGPUR in 1908 and worked as a sci­ence teacher in tem­po­rary vacan­cies in var­i­ous schools in the area for some time. Dur­ing this peri­od he also passed his exam­i­na­tion inlaw. He was mar­ried in 1909 to GOMTIBAI (B. 1898 D. 1988) daugh­ter of Pan­dit MAHADEO PRASAD SHUKLA at SAGAR. At the time my mater­nal grand father was post­ed there as D.S.P. in charge of Police Train­ing School.

After his mar­riage my father also worked as a fin­ger­print expert in the C.I.D. Police at NAGPUR for some­time and final­ly set­tled down at AKOLA as a lawyer and an advo­cate. While prac­tic­ing as an advo­cate he stud­ied graphol­o­gy and start­ed prac­tic­ing as a hand­writ­ing and fin­ger print expert. He died at the age of 51 years in 1938 when I had just start­ed my career as a lec­tur­er in Physics, Col­lege of Sci­ence NAGPUR.

We were four broth­ers and four sis­ters viz. — JAGDISH CHANDRA (29–8‑1913), ANANTRAM (1915–1919), MAHESH CHANDRA (1917), KISHORI (1919), INDUMATI (1922), SHYAM KUMARI (1924–1972), VIDYAWATI (1927), and YOGESH !1938). YOGESH was six months old when our father expired.

I was mar­ried to KALAWATI (Born 26–9‑1922), the youngest daugh­ter of Pan­dit GANGADIN SHIKLA, the Chief Min­is­ter of SAKTI, a prince­ly state in M.P.

Amongst my broth­ers and sis­ters, ANANTRAM was only four years old when he died at MANDLA (1919). MAHESH is mar­ried to KAUSHAL, daugh­ter of SHYAM SHANKAR TIWARI of BILASPUR and has three sons and one daugh­ter viz. BHARAT, RAHUL, VIVEK, and AARTI. My sis­ter KISHORI is mar­ried to RAMESHWAR TIWARI a Ceram­ic Engi­neer and has three sons and three daugh­ters viz. SHAILENDRA (Engi­neer), RAJENDRA (Bank Offi­cer), DEVENDRA (Bank Offi­cer) and daugh­ters UMA, RAMA, and KSHAMA. My next sis­ter INDUMATI is a doc­tor (Mas­ter of Surgery and Gyne­col­o­gy) and was mar­ried to SOMADATTA MISHRA, a for­est offi­cer who died in 1971. She has a son and a daugh­ter viz. VIJAY, a Lt. Colonel in the army hav­ing a son and a daugh­ter, viz. SUMIT and SURABHI. INDU’S daugh­ter VEENA is mar­ried to ONKAR NATH BAJPAI hav­ing two daugh­ters APARNA (in Amer­i­ca) and Dr. Nidhi.

My sis­ter SHYAMA (1924–1972) was mar­ried to MADA MOHAN DUBE who worked as a Tele­com Offi­cer and had a son and a daugh­ter. The son, CHANDRASHEKHAR, work­ing in Tele­com depart­ment and a daugh­ter, MAMTA, mar­ried to VINOD PANDE an Offi­cer n the State Bank.

My youngest sis­ter VIDYA is mar­ried to Dr. MURLI MANOHAR DUBE of RAIPIR. She is also work­ing as a home­opath. She has four sons viz. ANAND a doc­tor and a psy­chol­o­gist mar­ried to Dr. SHUBHA and a nephrol­o­gist, Dr. ASISH mar­ried to Dr. SANDHYA both M.D.s, and ALOK and MANISH both studying.

YOGESH my youngest broth­er is an offi­cer in the Indi­an Police Ser­vice is mar­ried to SAVITRI. He has one son and a daugh­ter son AMIT is doing M. Phar­ma­col­o­gy and daugh­ter SUDHI doing her M.B.B.S.

I have four sons and one daugh­ter. (i) The eldest MADHUSUDAN (10–7‑1941) is mar­ried to MARNA ERICKSON at CHICAGO U.S.A. in 1972. He has two sons SANJAY (11–6‑1975) and NEIL MADHAV (3–5‑1978). (ii) ASHOK (23–7‑1943) an engi­neer is mar­ried to REKHA daugh­ter of C.P. TRIVEDI at KANPUR in 1972. He has two daugh­ters VARSHA also called JHARNA (13–6‑1974) and NUPUR (1–7‑1979). (iii) ARCHANA (11–4‑1947) is mar­ried to GOVIND PRAKASH (1–7‑1942) a busi­ness­man has two sons. ADITYA (20–1‑1969) and AJAY (11–3‑1972). (iv) RAVINDRA (26–8‑1949) is mar­ried to JYOTI daugh­ter of V.P. MISHRA at INDORE has one sone and one daugh­ter viz. AKSHAYA (20–4‑1977) and PRIYANKA (9–7‑1982). (v) SHASHANK SHEKHAR (2–7‑1951) is mar­ried to SADHNA daugh­ter of Prof. A. AWASTHI at SAGAR. He has one daugh­ter and one one son i.e., DIVYA (18–4‑1980) and VARUN also called DHANANJAY (4–5‑1987).

I start­ed my car­ri­er as a lec­tur­er in Physics; worked for a while as a food and civ­il sup­ply offi­cer dur­ing the World War II and also worked in the lan­guage depart­ment for writ­ing text books of Physics for col­leges on Hin­di and helped Dr. Raghu­vi­ra in com­pil­ing a dic­tio­nary (Eng­lish — Hin­di) of tech­ni­cal terms in Physics. In 1948 I was select­ed in the Indi­an Police Ser­vice. After retire­ment from police I worked as the Vice Chan­cel­lor of Raipur Uni­ver­si­ty and lat­er as a Chair­man of the recruit­ment board of the State Bank of India.

My mater­nal grand father RAI BAHADUR MAHADEO PRASAD SHUKLA was mar­ried tpo PADMA TIRVEDI had five sons and three daugh­ters as below (all deceased): (i) MATHURA PRASAD SHUKLA was civ­il ser­vant had five sons and three daugh­ters viz. TRILOKI (D), NARAYAN, BALMUKUND (D), SHANKAR, and BALCHANDRA. Daugh­ters SARASWATI, KAMLA, and SUBHADRA. (ii) RAM KRISHNA was a lawyer and had three sons and three daugh­ters, viz. BHRAMADATTA (D), UMESH (D), and RAMAKANT, daugh­ters UMA, TRIVENI, and VIDYA. (iii) My moth­er GOMTI. (iv) SHIVRAM SHUKLA hav­ing three sons viz. SRISHTINATH, KAILASH, RAMNARESH and two daugh­ters. (v) LAXMI mar­ried to BANSIDHAR AWASTHI (D) hav­ing two sons RAMESH (D) and SURESH and one daugh­ter. (vi) SHIVDAS hav­ing one son BHRHMA and one daugh­ter. (vii) VISHWANATH hav­ing four sons — CHANDRAMAULI (D), SASHI BHUSHAN, SATYADEO, BHAWANI and two daugh­ters. (viii) KROSHNA mar­ried to R. TIWARI (D) no issues.

My father in law RIA SAHIB GANGADIN SHULA (D) retired as Chief Min­is­ter SAKTI state. He had mar­ried twice. From his first wife GODAWARI (D) he had one daugh­ter (D). From his sec­ond wife PARWATI he had three sons and four daugh­ters as below: (i) RANI (D) mar­ried to MANOHARLAL TIWARI (D) of JAMSHEDPUR had three sons — MAN MOHAN, JAG MOHAN, and NIRMAL all in pri­vate busi­ness and a daugh­ter RAMA. (ii) GIRJA CHARAN (D) mar­ried to RAJRANI has one son JIVENDRA work­ing as Tex­tile Offi­cer in the Gov­ern­ment of India. JIVENDRA has one daugh­ter and two sons. The daugh­ter RACHNA doing her Ph.D. in Psy­chol­o­gy is mar­ried to ANURAG MISHRA engi­neer and the two sons NEERAJ and SAURABH both study­ing. (iii) LAXMI (D) mar­ried to R.G. BAJPAI (D) who was a civ­il ser­vant and had one son DINESH work­ing as Deputy Col­lec­tor, one daugh­ter RANI mar­ried to S.S. SHUKLA an engi­neer in BHILEI hav­ing two daugh­ters both archi­tects and mar­ried to engi­neers and the daugh­ter KIRAN mar­ried to M.P. MISHRA, a teacher. (vi) CHANDRA BHUSHAN (D) mar­ried to BRAJRANI had two sons and two daugh­ters — (a) the eldest Wing Com­man­der R.K. SHUKLA (RAJJU) mar­ried to GEETA has a daugh­ter APARNA, (b) CHANDRA MOHAN (GUDDOO), a bank offi­cer mar­ried to SURENDER a pro­fes­sor in CHANDIGARGH has two sons ABHISHEK and ABHIJIT. © PRAMILA mar­ried to M.M. SINGH a busi­ness­man, and (d) MANJU mar­ried to MARKANDE at present in Amer­i­ca. (v) SAVITRI mar­ried to N.K. AGNIHOTRI (D) has two sons and one daugh­ter. The eldest is (a) VINAY D.I.G. Police mar­ried to VIJYA LAXMI has two sons VIVEK and VIKRAM both study­ing. VIKRAM lost both his hands in an acci­dent while VIVEK is doing M.B.A. in Amer­i­ca. (b) SHRIKAT Ph.D. a lec­tur­er in botany mar­ried to PUSHPA Ph.D. a lec­tur­er in Geog­ra­phy have a son GAURAO and a daugh­ter RUCHI. © PUSHPA is mar­ried to K.K. TIWARI a trans­port offi­cer has two sons ALOK and ATUL both study­ing, and (vi) KALAWATI (26–9‑1922) is the youngest daugh­ter of my father in law. She was born at HOSHANGABAD and mar­ried at SAKTI in 1938.