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Multi-periodSite Name: Warnu Dada TempleCountry: India
NOTE: This site is 61.234 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Adesar Nearest Village: Warnu
Latitude: 23.563684N Longitude: 70.982487E
Condition:
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Varvnu Dada Is a saint and an ancestor of the Rabari nomad tribe that dwells between the Sind desert (now in Pakistan) and Kutch and far-off south.
Ancestral worship is common all over the East and saints upgraded to a position of a deity as time pass.
I visited Varnu Dada temple near Adesar on the western banks of the Little Rann of Kutch.
The temple looks like many other temples in Kutch, but this temple is connected to 19th century, outside of the temple there is a grave of a British officer: Captain James MacMurdo,
He was the first Brithish political resident in Kutch and played important role in bringing Kutch under British patronage.
Visiting the area he overnight-ed in the temple premises and died of cholera.
The locals I talked to told me that he been loved by the local folks as he helped them and spoke their language so they built a small mausoleum and buried his ashes .
Macmurdo first entered Kutch in the guise of Ramanandi Sadhu. He sat performing penance and chanting Ramanam in front of Madhavra’s Temple at Anjar. Here he became popularly known as Bhuriya Bawa.
In 1816 Macmurdo was sent on a policital mission to Kutch to dissuade its rulers from giving shelter to the pirates who infested North Western frontier of the Bombay Territories. In 1817 he was promoted to a Captaincy and was appointed resident to the court of the ruler of Kutch. When Col East took possession of Anjar Macmurdo was appointed as the first British polictial resident in Kutch. In Anjar residency he contructed a bungalow on the model of his house in Dumfries.
Macmurdo grew very fond of Kutch. He got Kutchi kamagari wall paintings in the indigenous style, done on four walls of his audience hall in Anjar. Respecting the local culture, the main theme of these frescos represents Rama and Ramayan. He was a devoted admirer of Ramayan.
Macmurdo’s deserted bungalow at Anjar is now utilised as the Deputy Collector’s office, wherein wall paintings reflect the living life style of Macmurdo. People of Anjar still believe that the ghost of Macmurdo daily goes for the Darshan of Aarti at Madhavray’s temple.
Macmurdo was born on 30-11-1785 in Dumfrieshire in Scotland. After a chequered career as a true patriot, he died at the young age of 35 in the service of his country on 28th April 1820 at Warnu a desolate place near Adesar in Wagad on the border of little Rann of Kutch.
There is an inscription on a marble tablet that says:(see photos)
IN MEMORIAM
CAPTAIN JAMES MAC MURDO
FIRST BRITISH POLITICAL RESIDENT IN CUTCH DIED OF CHOLERA AT WARNU ON 28 APRIL 1820
On the tomb I found some Hindu worship artifacts as Linga and an interesting statue.
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