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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 782 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KHURJA , a See also:

town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Bulandshahr See also:district of the See also:United Provinces, 27 M. N.W. of See also:Aligarh, near the See also:main 1 See also:Sir H. See also:Yule, The See also:Book of See also:Ser Marco See also:Polo, bk. i. ch. See also:xxxvi. (3rd ed., See also:London, 1903). See also:line of the See also:East See also:Indian railway. Pop. (1901), 29,277. It is an important centre of See also:trade in See also:grain, See also:indigo, See also:sugar and ghi, and has See also:cotton gins and presses and a manufacture of pottery. Jain traders See also:form a large and wealthy class; and the See also:principal See also:building in the town is a See also:modern Jain See also:temple, a See also:fine domed structure richly carved and ornamented in See also:gold and See also:colours.

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