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town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Agra See also:division of the See also:United Provinces. The town is situated on the See also:Grand See also:Trunk road. Pop. (1901) 8796. The district has an See also:area of 1737 sq. m. The district consists for the most See also:part of an elevated alluvial See also:plateau, dipping down on its eastern slope into the valley of the See also:Ganges. The uplands are irrigated by the Ganges See also:canal. Between the See also:modern See also:bed of the Ganges and its See also:ancient channel lies a See also:belt of fertile See also:land, covered with a See also:rich See also:deposit of silt, and abundantly supplied with natural moisture. A See also:long See also:line of swamps and hollows still marks the former course of the See also:river; and above it rises abruptly the See also:original cliff which now forms the See also:terrace of the upland See also:plain. The See also:Kali Nadi, a small stream flowing in a deep and narrow See also:gorge, passes through the centre of the district, and affords an outlet for the See also:surface drainage. Etah was at an See also:early date the seat of a See also:primitive See also:Aryan See also:civilization, and the surrounding See also:country is mentioned by Hsiian Tsang, the See also:Chinese Buddhist See also:pilgrim of the 7th See also:century A.D., as rich in temples and monasteries. But after the bloody repression of See also:Buddhism before the 8th century, the district seems to have fallen once more into the hands of aboriginaltribes, from whom it was wrested a second See also:time by Rajputs during the course of their See also:great See also:migration eastward.

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rest of upper India it passed under the sway of Mahmud of See also:Ghazni in 1017, and thenceforth followed the fortunes of the See also:Mahommedan See also:empire. At the end of the 18th century it formed part of the territory over which the See also:wazir of Oudh had made himself ruler, and it came into the See also:possession of the British See also:government in 18o1, under the treaty of See also:Lucknow. During the See also:mutiny of 1857 it was the See also:scene of serious disturbances, coupled with the usual anarchic quarrels among the native princes. In 1901 the See also:population was 863,948, showing an increase of 23 % in the See also:decade due to the See also:extension of canal See also:irrigation. It is traversed by a See also:branch of the See also:Rajputana railway from Agra to See also:Cawnpore, with stations at Kasganj and Soron, which are the two largest towns. It has several See also:printing presses, See also:indigo factories, and factories for pressing See also:cotton, and there is a considerable agricultural export See also:trade.

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