Mihijam
| Mihijam | |
|---|---|
| Town | |
  Mihijam   Mihijam Location in Jharkhand, India | |
| Coordinates: 23°52′N 86°52′E / 23.87°N 86.87°ECoordinates: 23°52′N 86°52′E / 23.87°N 86.87°E | |
| Country |
 India |
| State | Jharkhand |
| District | Jamtara |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 40,463 |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 815354 |
| Vehicle registration | JH 10 |
Mihijam is a town and a notified area in Jamtara district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Pin code of Mihijam is 815354.[2]
Demographics
As of 2001 India census,[3] Mihijam had a population of 32,869. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Mihijam has an average literacy rate of 69%, lower than the national average of 74.08%: male literacy is 77%, and female literacy is 61%. In Mihijam, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.
History
In 1922, Mahendranath Gupta lived in Mihijam for nine months.[4]:64
Mihijam is well known for the renowned homeopath, Dr. Pareshnath Banerji, who was so good at healing that people called him Rishi, or saint. It was because so many people from all over the country went to be treated by him that the state turned the small railway station into a major stop for all trains, even mail trains. Dr. Pareshnath Banerji's sons are Dr. Parimal Banerji and Dr. Prasanta Banerji, who started their own medical practices in Kolkata in the 1960s. Today, Drs. Parimal Banerji, his disciple Dr Ruma Bhattacharya, his grandson Dr Paramesh Banerji[5] and Dr Prasanta Banerji's names have spread across the world for making ground-breaking advances in Homeopathy.
Mihijam is well known for the renowned homoeopath, Dr. Pareshnath Banerji who settled there in 1918 and established his “Charitable Dispensary” and started treating patients with free Homoeopathic medicines and charging no fees indiscriminately from all rich and poor, and all caste and creed. As soon as he started treating free patients at Mihijam the news spread like wild fire and within only a few months there came a huge number of patients in that small village from about 20 miles radius where only the poorest people were living.
Santhal Pargana was very much inhabited by most deadly poisonous snakes and the most poor and poverty stricken people were living there at Mihijam in mud-built thatched houses. He invented a medicine named as Lexin for treating snake-bite patients which was saving them from sure deaths and established a laboratory to manufacture it there at Mihijam in the same year. Not only Homoeopathy all patients of snake-bite were also treated completely free as this quality was inherited by him from his uncle Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and father Ishan Chandra.
When his ‘Charitable Dispensary’ attracted a huge crowd and Mihijam being a place for health resort there were already many houses of High Court Judges, big business people, top professors of Calcutta University, solicitors of repute and many other dignitaries of Calcutta. They also started coming to him.
Dr.Pareshnath Banerji established the Mihijam Institute of Homoeopathy at Mihijam in 1920 to teach Homoeopathy scientifically utilizing the huge number of patients for practical training and demonstration as he had also the great experience of treating patients from his college days in 1906.
By his research and observation he developed a method of treating patients by considering the chief cardinal symptoms of the diseases which made his treatment faster enabling him to treat more successfully each patient in one or two minutes which was not possible following the Hahnemann’s classical homoeopathy where at least fifteen to thirty minutes were required for treating a patient. Thereby, he could attend more than five hundred patients per day by then.
By 1923 there were more than seven hundred patients a day already in his Charitable Dispensary at Mihijam treated free of all costs and the variety of patients were mostly of serious diseases which spread his fame widely and his Charitable Dispensary in the remote village of Mihijam became a landmark in the map of India.
His medicine for Snake-Bite was being sold to the doctors all over India and also was exported to Central America, Guatemala, Costarica, British Guiana, Burma, Ceylone, etc. in addition to all over India from this village Mihijam. By 1935 his patient number was exceeding 1000 per day and by that really he laid the foundation of Homoeopathy in India.
For information it is to be mentioned that for over half a century Dr. Pareshnath Banerji carried on this humanitarian services with absolutely free of all costs including free medicines and advices working for about 16 to 18 hours every day which he continued throughout his life till he died in 1971. There is no person in the whole world who could do such a noble work. For these dedicated and philanthropic activities the people all around adored him to a very high esteem and called him as a saint, “Maharshi Pareshnath Banerji” and the road at Mihijam where he lived has been named as “Maharshi P. Banerji Road”. Parimal Banerji eldest son of Dr.Pareshnath joined the Mihijam Institute of Homoeopathy of Dr.Pareshnath to learn Homoeopathy along with his brother Prasanta Banerji. In 1950 Dr.Parimal Banerji and Dr.Prasanta Banerji joined the Charitable Dispensary to be with Dr.Pareshnath Banerji to help him.
Maharshi Pareshnath retired in 1967 due to his geriatric condition with fragile health. Maharshi Pareshnath died in 1971. Dr.Parimal Banerji alone continued the free Charitable Dispensary at Mihijam up to 2010 which he started in 1950 along with attending centres at Calcutta and Asansol. Thereafter he also had to retire due to his aging health being now a senior octogenarian.
Today, Dr. Parimal Banerji, his disciple Dr. Ruma Bhattacharya and Dr. Prasanta Banerji's names have spread across the world for making ground-breaking advances in Homoeopathy. Dr.Parimal Banerji scientifically changed and improved the Classical Homoeopathy of Hahnemann into ‘Dr.Parimal Banerji’s Advanced Homoeopathy’ which is being practiced now by large number of practitioners with a much greater success and dependability. Dr.Parimal Banerji has records of treating about 1.5 million patients from mainly Mihijam centre which is arguably the largest in the world and served about 15.7 million prescriptions from this centre all with free of all charges.
Dr.Parimal Banerji carried out remarkable research activities from his research centre at Mihijam and discovered the ‘Source of Life-Force’ which remained undiscovered in spite of extensive efforts by the scientists all over the world even-after spending billions of Dollars every year for it. Recently his published book ‘Discovery of Source of Life-Force’ has been launched by His Excellency The Governor of West Bengal adding a new feather on the cap of Mihijam.
His activities are gloriously carried out and Mihijam has become the pilgrimage for Homoeopathy.
References
- ↑ "Census of India Search details". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
- ↑ "Mihijam Pin code". citypincode.in. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ↑ Gupta, Dharm Pal (1989). A Short Life of M., The Writer of the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (revised ed.). Chandigarh, India: Sri Ramakrishna Sri Ma Prakashan Trust. OCLC 33327769 (original edition 1977)
- ↑ http://www.drpbanerji.com