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| Country | India |
| State | Rajasthan |
| District(s) | Jhunjhunu |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) |
Taen or Tain or Tanyee(Hindi: टाँई) is a village in the Jhunjhunu district Shekhawati, India.
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15 km to the north of Mandawa town in District Jhunjhunu lies the village of Tain Location Map, a former Estate of 12 villages founded by Thakur Sahib Salem Singhji. Salem Singh was the grandson of the legendary ruler of Jhunjhunu Maharao Sardul Singh. Tain estate has a very turbulent history going back more than 250 years. There have been many upheavals, as evident from the state of its historical monuments. Tain fort suffered major damage in the 1830s by the Shekhawati Brigade; a cavalry regiment under the command of Major Henry Forster. The regiment was formed and raised to specifically target and bring to book the so called ‘Rogue’ rulers, chieftains and Thikanas of Shekhawati who refused to pay allegiance to the Jaipur State and their British overlords. The majority of the Shekhawat rulers were opposed to their cousins, the larger Jaipur State and the British.
In present day, Tain village has a population of around 5,000 and is bounded by the districts of Sikar and Churu. It is primarily divided into three parts, following the age old custom of social hierarchy:
1. Tain Garh: mainly Rajputs.
2. Tain Johad: Jats and other peasant farming communities.
3.Tain Baas: mainly Kayamkhani Qaimkhani population.
There are a fair number of people in the village who are serving or have served in the armed/paramilitary forces. Most of the people are dependent on agriculture, dairy, poultry farming and related activities for their livelihood. Village Tain is well connected to all major district roads (metalled). There is a steady, if not regular supply of electricity to the village. There is a BSNL Telephone Exchange and an electric sub-station in the village. The administration is under the Gram Panchayat which is democratically elected every 4–5 years.
In 1730 Jhunjhunu was seized by Thakur Shardul Singh (ruled 1730–1742) after the death of the ruling Nawab Rohella khan. Sardul Singh was a diwan (minister) in Rohella khan’s court and as such getting the reins of Jhunjhunu was easy. Jhunjhunu lorded by Maharao Sardul Singh was the richest and most popular thikana of the painted region of Shekhawati. After Sardul’s death in 1742, the estate was divided equally amongst his five sons — Zorawar Singh, Kishen Singh, Akhey Singh, Nawal Singh and Keshri Singh. Jhunjhunu thus came to be known as the panch pana — the five estates. Akhey died without leaving an heir. Zorawar inherited Tain, Gangiyasar and Malsisar; Kishen got Khetri and Alsisar; Nawal founded Nawalgarh and Mandawa and Keshri Bissau and Dundlod. The thakurs of every village in the region covered by Panch Pana were all descended from one of these men.
Tain(टाँई), now a village connected to the main road by a metalled road, this was a flourishing town in the early part of the nineteenth century and it was an Estate/Thikana comprising twelve villages. It was founded by Thakur Salem Singh (Grandson of MahaRao Shardul Singh and son of Zorawar Singh) in 1761 and the fort was completed in 1769, a square structure with four corner bastions. This town was one of the several that fell within Shyam Singh of Bissau’s orbit and was notorious for dacoities and banditry. With the result that Shekhawati Brigade commanded by British Major Forster sliced the fort in 1837 whereupon Bissau family took away the great gates for their own fort. The walls were never rebuilt. Only two bastions remained with the gate in a precarious state. Near the fort is a kothi built by Shri Moti Singhji in 1846, which has beautiful frescoes but is in a poor state of repairs.
Two bandits who became folk heroes, known as Bulji-Bhurji, were eventually hunted down in the territory of this village and shot by Bikaner forces around 1930. Equally famous is the ancient monastery of Monk Shri Kesarnathji. As legend has it, there is a tunnel right up to Deedwana through which monks used to pick up salt. There are traces of few jal trees from which as legend has it there used to be rain of sugar granules.
Thakur Jai Singhji of TAIN was martyred in the battle of TUNGA fighting for the Jaipur forces against the Marathas led by Mahaji Scindia. Sirohi village under NEEM-KA-THANA Tehsil of SIKAR district is the location of the second Fort which was a part of the TAIN Estate(Jagir). The enterprising and hardworking Marwari(Baniya)community hailing from this village are today a name to reckon with in the field of Business. TAINWALA group of companies being the most prominent amongst them with interests in pharmaceuticals, real estate, medicine, personal care, fashion etc., spread across various cities in INDIA and abroad.