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BAREILLY, or BARELI

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 397 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAREILLY, or BARELI , a See also:city and See also:district of See also:British See also:India in the Bareilly or See also:Rohilkhand See also:division of the See also:United Provinces. The city is situated on the Ramganga See also:river, 812 M. N.W. from See also:Calcutta by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) 131,208. The See also:principal buildings are two mosques built in the 17th See also:century; a See also:modern fort over-looking the cantonments; the railway station, which is an important junction on the Oudh and Rohilkhand See also:line; the See also:palace of the See also:nawab of See also:Rampur, and the See also:government See also:college. Bareilly is the headquarters of a See also:brigade in the 7th division of the eastern See also:army. See also:corps. The See also:chief manufactures are See also:furniture and upholstery. Bareilly college is a seat of upper class learning for the surrounding districts. It is conducted by an See also:English See also:staff, and its course includes the subjects for degrees in the Calcutta University. The district of Bareilly has an See also:area of 158o sq. m. It is a level See also:country, watered by many streams, the See also:general slope being towards the See also:south.

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soil is fertile and highly cultivated, groves of See also:noble trees abound, and the villages have a neat, prosperous look. A See also:tract of See also:forest See also:jungle, called the See also:tarai, stretches along the extreme See also:north of the district, and teems with large See also:game, such as tigers, bears, See also:deer, See also:wild pigs, &c. The river Sarda or See also:Gogra forms the eastern boundary of the district and is the principal stream. Next in importance is the Ramganga, which receives as its tributaries most of the See also:hill torrents of the See also:Kumaon mountains. The Deoha is another See also:great drainage artery and receives many See also:minor streams. The Gomati or See also:Gumti also passes through the district. The See also:population in 1901 was 1,090,117. The Mahommedans are chiefly the descendants of See also:Yusafzai Afghans, called the See also:Rohilla Pathans, who settled in the country about the See also:year 1720. The Rohillas were formerly the ruling See also:race of the tract of country called Rohilkhand, and are men of a taller stature, a fairer complexion and a more arrogant See also:air than the general inhabitants of the district. See also:Bishop See also:Heber described them as follows:—" The country is burdened with a See also:crowd of lazy, profligate, self-called sawars (cavaliers), who, though many of them are not See also:worth a See also:rupee, conceive it derogatory to their gentility and See also:Pathan See also:blood to apply themselves to any honest See also:industry, and obtain for the most See also:part a See also:precarious livelihood by sponging on the industrious tradesmen and farmers,397 on whom they See also:levy a sort of See also:blackmail, or as hangers-on to the wealthy and noble families yet remaining in the See also:province. These men have no visible means of See also:maintenance, and no visible occupation except that of lounging up and down with their swords and See also:shields, like the See also:ancient Highlanders, whom in many respects they much resemble." The Rohillas, after fifty years' precarious See also:independence, were subjugated in 1774 by the confederacy of British troops with the nawab of Oudh's army, which formed so serious a See also:charge against See also:Warren See also:Hastings. Their territory was in that year annexed to Oudh.

In 1801 the nawab of Oudh ceded it to the See also:

Company in See also:commutation of the See also:subsidy See also:money. During the See also:Mutiny of 1857 the Rohillas took a very active part against the English, but since then they have been disarmed. Both before and after that year, however, the Bareilly Mahommedans have distinguished themselves by fanatical tumults against the See also:Hindus. The district is irrigated from the Rohilkhand See also:system of government canals. There are no manufactures except for domestic use and little See also:external See also:trade. Several lines of the Oudh and Rohilkhand railway pass through the district.

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