Osho's family

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"In my childhood...there were many children in my family. I had ten brothers and sisters myself,

then there were one uncle's children, and another uncle's children." (Osho)


Osho with some relatives in Jabalpur, 1951. L-to-R :
Kundan Lal Samaiya (Kranti's uncle), Kranti Samaiya, Sheela Makhamal Bai Samaiya, Kundan Lal's nephew, (an unknown female neighbour), Arvind Kumar Jain, Osho


Osho with his family at Gadarwara, 1970. L-to-R :
back row standing : Shakuntala Jain (Niklank's wife), Niklank Jain, Shashi Kala Khate (Aklank's wife), Aklank Jain (with their son Aneesh), Vijay Kumar Khate (with their son Ashutosh), Shashi Bala Khate (Vijay's wife)
2nd row  : Saraswati, Osho, Devateerth
3rd row : Shailendra, Nisha, Mohan Khate
front row : Poorva Khate, Maitreya Khate, Pratiksha Khate, Pragya Khate


(Please note that the names in quotation marks are the nicknames Osho used to call them by. Most are common in Hindi, but some are not. See references below.)

Osho's grandparents were
his mother's mother : "Nani" Rani Ma (Shreemati Genda Bai Jain) (1896 - 1971)
his mother's father : "Nana" Raja Saheb (Shree Panna Lal Jain) (1892 - 1938)
his father's mother : "Dadi" Shreemati Saraswati Bai Jain (1893 - 1930)
his father's father : "Dada" or "Baba" Shree Hazari Lal Jain (1888 - 1958)
Osho's parents were
mother : "Bhabhi" Shreemati Saraswati Bai Jain (Nov 23, 1913 - May 17, 1995)
(Incidentally, Osho's mother and her mother-in-law have the same name. When his brother Shailendra took Sannyas, Osho named him Saraswati as well.)
father : "Dadda" Shree Babu Lal Jain (Mar 21, 1908 - Sep 8, 1979)
(They were married when Saraswati was 7 years old.)


Osho's aunts, uncles and cousins were
his father's sisters :
Shreemati Ratni Bai Jain (1914 - 1942)
married Shree Panna Lal Jain (1910 - 1969)
their daughter : Kranti Chirantan Brahmachari (Jul 5, 1933 - Apr 23, 2006)
their son : Arvind Kumar Jain
Shreemati Makhamal Bai Samaiya (1924 - 1956)
married Shree Kundan Lal Samaiya (1920 - 1978)
(they had no children, but took care of Kranti and Arvind after the untimely death of their mother Ratni.)
his father's brothers
"Chanchal" Shree Amrit Lal (Nov 9, 1913 - Nov 12, 1987)
married Shreemati Leelavati Jain (Jun 24, 1921 - Sep 8, 1999)
their daughters : Shushama, Preeti, Kumkum, Sefali
their sons : Paresh, Niseeth Mohan
Shree Shikhar Chand Jain (Nov 22, 1921 - Nov 1, 2005)
married Shreemati Indu Prabha Jain (Jul 3, 1929 - Oct 23, 1999)
their daughters : Anurag Mayi, Alankar Mani
their sons : Prafulla Mohan, Pramod Mohan (May 12, 1953 - Nov 28, 2015)
(Osho's mother had no siblings, so their were no uncles, aunts or cousins from her side of the family.)
Osho's sisters, their husbands and children were
Rasa Kumari
married Shree Jinwar Das Fouzdar (Sep 14, 1928 - Feb 8, 1977)
their daughters : Rakanishi, Alka, Jyoti
their sons : Rohit, Kapil
their grandson : Siddhartha
Snehlata
married Shree Rajendra Kumar Jain (Jul 31, 1939 - Jul 22, 2013)
their sons : Sanjay, Sandeep, Sudeep, Somesh
Neeru
married Shree Kailash Singhai
their daughter : Ritu
their sons : Rishi, Rahul
Nisha Khate
married Shree Harak Chand Jain
their sons : Yogesh, Somesh
Kusum (died from smallpox, 1939 - 1942)
Osho's brothers, their wives and children were
Vijay Kumar Khate (Sep 18, 1937 - Aug 9, 1995)
married Shashi Kala
their daughters : Poorva , Pratiksha Apurv (Feb 28, 1964 - ), Pragya
their sons : Maitreya (Nov 17, 1959 - Mar 8, 2006), Ashutosh
Aklank Kumar Khate (Jul 25, 1941 - Feb 8, 2015)
married Shashi Bala
their son : Aneesh
Niklank Kumar Jain
married Shakuntala
their daughter : Leena
their sons : Paritosh, Siddhartha
Amit Mohan Khate
married Ma Anand Divya
(They had no children)
Shailendra Shekhar
married Priya Shekhar
(They had no children)
Some of Osho's childhood friends were
Shree Shiv Prasad Gagarani
Shree Shyam Lal Soni
Shree Kanchhedi Lal Shukla
Shree Sukharaj Lunawat
Shree Abdul Rahman
Shashi Sharma (she died of typhoid in 1947)

gallery

  • Saraswati

    Saraswati

  • Devateerth

    Devateerth

  • Nisha 1981

    Nisha 1981

  • Shailendra 2014

    Shailendra 2014

  • Aklank

    Aklank

  • "Nani" Rani Ma

    "Nani" Rani Ma


  • sources
    The information on this page is largely based on correspondence with Osho's brothers Niklank and Shailendra and Osho's niece Pratiksha who provided us with first hand details about their family. Further details about Osho's family can be found in Sw Anand Neeten's Osho Source Book.
    references
    Hindi: Family relations