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ALIGARH , a See also:

city and See also:district of See also:British See also:India in the See also:Meerut See also:division of the See also:United Provinces. The city, also known as Koil, was a station on the See also:East See also:Indian railway, 876 m. from See also:Calcutta. See also:Sir See also:Sayad Ahmad See also:Khan, K.C.S.I., who died in 1898, founded in 1864 the Aligarh See also:Institute and Scientific Society for the See also:translation into the See also:vernacular of western literature; and afterwards the See also:Mahommedan Anglo-See also:Oriental See also:college, under See also:English professors, with an English school attached. The college meets with strong support from the enlightened portion of the Mussulman community, whose aim is to raise it to the status of a university, with the See also:power of conferring degrees. The See also:population (1901) 70,434, showed an increase of 14% in the See also:decade. There are several See also:flour-See also:mills, See also:cotton-presses and a See also:dairy See also:farm. Aligarh Fort, situated on the See also:Grand See also:Trunk road, consists of a See also:regular See also:polygon, surrounded by a very broad and deep ditch. It became a fortress of See also:great importance under Sindhia in 1759, and was the See also:depot where he drilled and organized his battalions in the See also:European See also:fashion with the aid of De See also:Boigne. It was captured from the See also:Mahrattas under the leadership of See also:Perron, another See also:French officer, by See also:Lord See also:Lake's See also:army, in See also:September 1803, since which See also:time it has been much strengthened andimproved. In the See also:rebellion of 1857 the troops stationed at Aligarh mutinied, but abstained from murdering their See also:officers, who, with the other residents and ladies and See also:children, succeeded in reaching See also:Hathras. The district of Aligarh has an See also:area of 1957 sq. m. It is nearly a level See also:plain, but with a slight See also:elevation in the centre, between the two great See also:rivers the See also:Ganges and See also:Jumna.

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river is the See also:Kali Nadi, which traverses the entire length of the district from See also:north-east to See also:south-See also:west. The district is traversed by several See also:railways and also by the Ganges See also:canal, which is navigable. The See also:chief trading centre is Hathras. In 1901 the population was 1,200,822, showing an increase of 15% in the decade, due to the See also:extension of See also:irrigation. There are several factories for ginning and pressing cotton.

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