“Jairamnagar”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

It is a small railway station and village. The station code is JMRG. The station was named Jairamnagar after Rai Bahadur Jairam Valji Chauhan, a noted Kutchi railway contractor on 1 September 1939 by Bengal Nagpur Railway authorities being the only Railway Station in the whole of India to have been named after an individual businessman.^[1]^[2] He at one time used to be sole proprietor of Jairamnagar village land and also used to own mines of dolomite, manganese and limestone.^[3]^[4]^[5]

The village has a huge and deep pond, which was once a limestone quarry belonging to Rai Bahadur Jairam Valji. People of Jairamnagar use its water for their needs. Beside the pond there is a beautiful Shiva temple built in 1922 by Jairam Valji Chauhan.

References

1. ^¹Commercial & general directory of C. P. & Berar - Page 116|quote=This is the only Railway Station in the whole of India to have been named after an individual businessman, having marble name hoards on the station platform.
2. ^¹[https://books.google.com/books?ei=8DoGUrS0AcbyrQfdwIHACw&id=RFg1AQAAIAAJ&dq=paraghat+was+named+jairamnagar&q=1939+re-named#search_anchor It was originally known as Paraghat and was re-named Jairamnagar by Mr. A. Duncan, Agent & General Manager, B.N. Railway...on 1 September 1939]
3. ^{{cite book|title=The Times of India directory and year book including who's who , Volume 28|year=1941|page=1087|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RakSAAAAIAAJ&q=Jairamnagar+Jairam+Valjee&dq=Jairamnagar+Jairam+Valjee&hl=en&sa=X&ei=t0BsT_PrLs6IrAe9tLCKAg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA}}
4. ^Diary of Golden Days at Jharia : A Memoir & History of Gurjar Kashtriya Samaj of Kutch in Coalfields of Jharia - written by Natwarlal Devram Jethwa of Calcutta & Sinugra. (1998). Life sketch of Rai Bahadur Jairam Valji Chauhan. Page: 24.
5. ^Location of Jairam Valji Colony