OverView of Chhoti Ballabh

Village chhoti ballabh is situated at western border of Iglas tehsil about 7 kilometes away from Town Gonda Of district Aligarh!This an  important village of Lagasma area and Thakurela Gotriya jaat consider it a village of thakurela jaats.The known story of this village is as under--

  There was a high heap of remainants of a unkown fort, where this village chhoti is situated.There were signs of a  trench around this "Teela" in the earlier days of its establishment.Besides this there is a hisstorical barron land of around 20 Bighas(four acres) in the 300 mtr northern side of this village  called "Naraina".It has some  signs of a disappeared old 'Nagar' because there ia a old wall at some depth which goes up to village chhoti.Another significant thing which was noticed in earlier days was that some glittering small stones and lot of old pattern terricota pots were also found through out this barron land which is a sign of a old and historical place.

Village Chhoti-Ballabh comprises two small villages namely Chhoti and   Ballabh. Thereis big pond in between these two villages Called Devalay and remainants of temple are still existing near this pond.Besides this there is a place called MATA in the north-Eastern side of the village Chhoti where devottes from different places used to come for worship even for sacrificing the goats as a part of there worship. One more significant place called SATI is also there on the north western corner of village Chhoti.There was one MATH called SATI which is recently have been ploughed by farmers. From the above signs it seems that this village would have been a famous place thousands years ago.

The history of present peasants of these villages is only around two hundreds years old.In the present history of this village Jaats of two Gotras,  thakurela and Sinsinwars have established their families in this village.Initialy two hundred yerars ago two families of thakurela gotra jaats one Kauras and other Lukhatihas came from darabar (Gonda) village and setteled in Ballabh village.After some time Alagarji named sinsinwar jaat who was married in darbar village in the Kaura's family of thakurela gotra jaats also came and setteled in village Ballabh but he had some conflict with jaat  of lukhatiha family .As the Jaat of Lukhatiha family considered himself  dominating which was not acceptable to Alagarji sinsinwar jaat who him self was a high ranked retired official of Bharatpur state army and also a gainer in laws of thakurela gotra jaat and consequently Alagarji shifted alone to fort type heap of Chhoti. Thats why it is considered that  existence of present chhoti Ballam village is due to Alagarji Sinsinwar who came to this place from village Nahrauli of Disst Bharatpur (Raj).Even now a days village Chhoti -Ballabh is well known by the names of Sinsinwar Faujdars.The population of sinsinwars is eqal to the Thalkurelas of this village at present.Thakurelas of village Chhoti had been setteled in Chhoti village after Alagarji sinsinwar setteled down there.Afterwards Kallu pachahera,Chetram Agra chaudhary, in Chhoti village, and Sawal singh Atri, Viri singh pachehara, Maan singh Khuantail..All Jaats setteled in village Ballabh. Similarly other cast peoples like Jatav from Talesara and Darbar,Khatik ,Dheevar and Naai from other places came and settled in these villages.Earlier there was one family of a muslim community aslo but now no muslim family is existing in these villages.The main occupation of thi village is farming.