Ghat ( Hindi: [gʱaːʈ] ), a term used in the Indian subcontinent , to refer to the series of steps leading down to a body of water or wharf , such as a bathing or cremation place along the banks of a river or pond , the Ghats in Varanasi , Dhobi Ghat or the Aapravasi Ghat .
16-753: Satti Chaura Ghat ( Satī Caurā Ghāţ ) or Massacre Ghat is a famous ghat in Kanpur , the industrial hub of Uttar Pradesh state in north India . It is located on the bank of the River Ganges in Kanpur Cantonment near Jajmau . The ghat is located on the southern bank of River Ganges and marks the northern boundary of Kanpur city. River ghats have been a traditional part of Indian religious life. They have served religious and community gathering purposes. When located on holy rivers like River Ganges , they often have attached temples dedicated to deities of
32-402: A suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings , which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information ( inflectional endings) or lexical information ( derivational /lexical suffixes) . Inflection changes the grammatical properties of
48-570: A person or a business). Aapravasi Ghat or The Immigration Depot is a building complex located in Port Louis on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius , the first British colony to receive indentured, or contracted, labour workforce from India. From 1849 to 1923, half a million Indian indentured labourers passed through the Immigration Depot, to be transported to plantations throughout
64-466: A place years ago some women had committed sati and in commemoration a small temple with stone steps along the bank to facilitate bathing, had been built. The origins of the ghat date to pre-colonial times. It was at this location that the initial momentous events of Indian Rebellion of 1857 , named as Siege of Cawnpore in British colonial records, took place. The ghat was renamed as Massacre Ghat after
80-558: A river-side. The word 'ghat' has also been derived from Dravidian etymons such as Telugu kaṭṭa and gaṭṭu (dam and embankment) derived from kaṭṭu meaning "to tie". These are bathing wharves on a river. The numerous significant ghats along the Ganges are the Varanasi ghats (the city of Varanasi has 88 ghats) and generically the "ghats of the Ganges". Most of these were constructed under
96-417: A word within its syntactic category . Derivational suffixes fall into two categories: class-changing derivation and class-maintaining derivation. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages , suffixes are called affirmatives , as they can alter the form of the words. In Indo-European studies , a distinction is made between suffixes and endings (see Proto-Indo-European root ). A word-final segment that
112-401: Is somewhere between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme is known as a suffixoid or a semi-suffix (e.g., English -like or German -freundlich "friendly"). Inflection changes the grammatical properties of a word within its syntactic category . In several languages, this is realized by an inflectional suffix, also known as desinence . In the example: the suffix -d inflects
128-527: The British Empire . The large-scale migration of the laborers left an indelible mark on the societies of many former British colonies, with Indians constituting a substantial proportion of their national populations . In Mauritius alone, 68 percent of the current total population is of Indian ancestry . The Immigration Depot has thus become an important reference point in the history and cultural identity of Mauritius. Suffix In linguistics ,
144-478: The Hindu pantheon . Sati Chaura Ghat has been an important maritime boarding point for the river route from Kanpur to Allahabad from pre colonial period. In recent years, after the acquisition of the surrounding areas by Cantonment Board and private industrialists, it has receded in its traditional historical importance as the centre of urban life in the old city of Kanpur. Satichaura or embankment of satis had been
160-486: The root -word fade to indicate past participle. Inflectional suffixes do not change the word class of the word after the inflection. Inflectional suffixes in Modern English include: Derivational suffixes can be divided into two categories: class-changing derivation and class-maintaining derivation. In English, they include A suffix will often change the stress or accent pattern of a multi-syllable word, altering
176-723: The Satti Chaura Ghat, later gaining identification as Massacre Ghat. Those who escaped the brutal fate that day were later killed at the Bibighar Massacre . The rebellion was believed to be led by the Peshwa Nana Sahib from which the Ghat was renamed as Nana Rao Ghat. Ghat The origin of the English 'ghat' is Sanskrit : घट्ट , ghaṭṭa and is normally translated as ghaṭ, quay, landing or bathing place, as well as, steps by
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#1732854647009192-658: The Yamuna River. Raj Ghat, in particular, was the cremation site for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and numerous political leaders after him, and the Manikarnika Ghat at Varanasi on the Ganges . "Ghat" and "Ghata" is also a suffix used in several place names across the subcontinent . This is an incomplete list: The word is also used in some places outside the Indian subcontinent. For example, in George Town, Penang , Malaysia ,
208-560: The label "Ghaut" is used to identify the extensions of those streets which formerly ended in ghats before the reclamation of the quayside (e.g., Church St Ghaut, in Malay Gat Lebuh Gereja , is the name of the extension of Church St beyond where the street used to descend to the water via a ghat). Both in Penang and Singapore , there are areas named Dhoby Ghaut ( dhobi meaning "launderer" or "laundry", depending on whether it refers to
224-808: The patronage of various Maratha rulers such as Ahilyabai Holkar (Queen of the Malwa Kingdom from 1767 to 1795) in the 18th century. In Madhya Pradesh in central India , there are further significant ghats along the Narmada River . People who live on the steps are also called ghats. Ghats such as these are useful for both mundane purposes (such as cleaning) and religious rites (i.e. ritual bathing or ablutions); there are also specific " shmashana " or "cremation" ghats where bodies are cremated waterside, allowing ashes to be washed away by rivers. Notable examples include Nigambodh Ghat and Raj Ghat in Delhi , situated on
240-402: The phoneme pattern of the root word even if the root's morphology does not change. An example is the difference between "photograph" and "photography". In this case, the "-y" ending governs the stress pattern, causing the primary stress to shift from the first syllable ("pho-") to the antepenultimate ("-to-"). The unaccented syllables have their ordinary vowel sound changed to a schwa. This can be
256-534: The rebellion. It is now under the charge of the Kanpur Cantonment Board. It is still in use as a bathing and ritual ghat for local population. This Ghat has become historically important since the Indian Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. On 27 June 1857, Kanpur (then spelled as Cawnpore) saw one of the grimmest stories of Indian history of independence. Around 300 British men, women and children were murdered at
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