Bostan Khan

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'''Bostan Khan''' (died 1825), was a warrior of the [[Tareen]] (or Tarin) tribe settled in the [[Haripur District|Haripur]], [[Hazara, Pakistan|Hazara]] region of what was to later become the North-West Frontier Province (now [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]), who was executed for rebellion by the [[Sikh]] administrators of the region at that time.<ref>''Hazara District Gazetteer 1883-84'' , Lahore, 1884, p.26</ref>

==Early life==
Sardar Bostan Khan was the nephew of the clan's chief of that time, [[Sardar]] Muhammad Khan.<ref>''Gazetteer'', p.26</ref> After the Sardar of Tareens was captured for rebelling against the Sikh [[Khalsa]] government of [[Lahore]], in year 1824-25, [[Maharaja]] [[Ranjit Singh]] himself came to arrest him with a big force.<ref>Dr Sher Bahadar Panni ''Tarikh i Hazara''</ref> Ranjit Singh took the chief away in chains to [[Hasan Abdal]] and afterwards to incarceration in the [[Lahore Fort]], in Punjab.

==Struggle and death==
After Sardar Muhammad Khan Tareen's capture his nephew, Sardar Bostan Khan, resumed the freedom struggle and went into rebellion against the Sikh Khalsa administrators.<ref>Hazara Gazetteer</ref> A small Sikh fort in Sirikot in Gandgarh district was attacked and taken by the rebels under Bostan Khan. At this time, the Sikh general Sardar [[Hari Singh Nalwa]] returned to his jagir Hazara inorder to quell this rebellion with the help of a French General Duarte commanding a sizable force of fresh reinforcements from [[Peshawar]].<ref>''Gazetteer'', p.26</ref> By now, the Sikhs had made up their minds and Hari Singh paid Rupees 50,000 as a tribute to the Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore, to get the custody of Sardar Muhammad Khan Tareen, and had him poisoned to death.<ref>''Gazetteer'' p 26</ref> At the same time, he had Bostan Khan and some other rebels like Jalal Khan [[Dilazak]], two principal Maliks of the Mashwanis one of them, Qasim Shah Mashwani, Sheikha [[Jadoon]], and Sher Khan Swati [[Blowing from a gun|blown by cannons]] at [[Haripur, Pakistan|Haripur]].<ref>"Tareekh e Sarfaroshan e Sarhad"</ref><ref>"Hazara Gazetteer,1883 and 1907"</ref> After this event, the anti-Sikh movement in Hazara region ended only to emerge in form of ineffective skirmishes in Ovrush, Tanawal, Pakhli, Konsh and Balakot.<ref>"Tareekh e Sarfaroshan e Sarhad"</ref>

==Later events==
Late Sardar Muhammad Khan Tareen had a son, Sardar Ghulam Khan, who for a time from 1826 to 1848 became chief of Tareen in this region but later during the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]], he was arrested by the British and taken to [[Allahabad]] jail, and later hanged there.<ref>{{dubious|date=January 2020}}As he did not have any offspring, a new chief Sardar Karam Khan {{Dubious|date=January 2020}}{{verification needed|date=January 2020}} was elected from a collateral branch and this family remained in the chiefdom until April 1889, when the Tareen/Tarin chiefdom in Hazara was formally abolished by the Government of [[British India]]</ref> As a result of the rebellion of the Tareen/Tarins of lower Hazara, they suffered heavy punitive damages under orders of Major [[James Abbott (Indian Army officer)]] and were deprived of many of their estates which were confiscated and many of their chieftains and headmen exiled.<ref>Correspondence between {{verification needed|date=January 2020}} Sir [[Henry Montgomery Lawrence|Henry Lawrence]] at Lahore and [[Lord Dalhousie]] at Calcutta and Simla, March to May 1849, Punjab Records Office, Lahore, Acc No F/OBR/1849-50/201-209</ref> And it was not until February 1852, when Sir [[Henry Montgomery Lawrence|Henry Lawrence]] visited Haripur, Hazara, that they were reinstated in their lands and dignities.<ref>Largely through the intercession of Colonel [[Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala]] (later FM Lord Napier of Magdala); see H Lee ''Brothers in the Raj: The Lives of John and Henry Lawrence'', Karachi: OUP, 2003, 257</ref>{{Verification needed|date=January 2020}}

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