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BULANDSHAHR
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BULANDSHAHR , a See also: town 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 town is situated on a height on the right See also:bank of the See also:Kali-Nadi, whence the substitution of the names Unchanagar and Bulandshahr (high town) for its earlier name of Baran, by which it is still sometimes called. The See also:population in 1901 was 18,959. Its See also:present See also:hand-some See also:appearance is due to several successive collectors, notably F. S. Growse, who was active in erecting public buildings, and in encouraging the See also:local gentry to beautify their own houses. In particular, it boasts a See also:fine bathing-See also:ghat, a town-See also:
The See also: climate of the district is liable to extremes, being very See also:cold in the See also:winter and excessively hot in the summer. In 1901 the population was 1,138,101, showing an increase of 20% in the See also:decade. The district is very highly cultivated and thickly populated. There are several See also:indigo factories, and See also:mills for pressing and cleaning See also:cotton, but the former have greatly suffered by the decline in indigo of See also:recent years. The See also:main See also:line of the See also:East See also:Indian railway and the Oudh and See also:Rohilkhand railway See also:cross the district. The See also:chief centre of See also:trade is See also:Khurja. Nothing certain is known of the See also:history of the district before A.D. ,o,8, when Mahmud of See also:Ghazni appeared before Baran and received the submission of the See also:Hindu See also:raja and his followers to See also:Islam. In 1193 the See also:city was captured by Kutb-ud-din. In the 14th See also:century the district was subject to invasions of See also:Rajput and Mongol clans who See also:left permanent settlements in the See also:country. With the See also:firm See also:establishment of the See also:Mogul See also:empire See also:peace was restored, the most permanent effect of this See also:period being the large proportion of Mussulmans among the population, due to the zeal of See also:Aurangzeb. The decline of the Mogul empire gave See also:free See also:play to the turbulent spirit of the See also:Jats and Gujars, many of whose chieftains succeeded in See also:carving out See also:petty principalities for themselves at the expense of their neighbours.During this period, however, Baran had properly no See also: separate history, being a dependency of Koil, whence it continued to be administered under the Mahratta domination. After Koil and the fort of See also:Aligarh had been captured by the British in 1803, Bulandshahr and the surrounding country were at first incorporated in the newly created district of Aligarh (1805). Bulandshahr enjoyed an evil reputation in the See also:Mutiny of 1857, when the Gujar peasantry plundered the towns. The Jats took the See also:side of the See also:government, while the Gujars and Mussulman Rajputs were most actively hostile. See Imperial Gazetteer of India (See also:Oxford, ed. 1908) ; F. S. Growse, Bulandshahr (See also:Benares, 1884).Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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