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MAINPURI, or MYNPOOREE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 442 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAINPURI, or MYNPOOREE , a See also: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 has a station on a See also:branch of the See also:East See also:Indian railway recently opened from Shikohabad. Pop. (See also:root), 19,000. It consists of two See also:separate portions, Mainpuri proper and Mukhamganj. See also:Holkar plundered and burned See also:part of the town in 1804, but was repulsed by the See also:local See also:militia. Since the British occupation the See also:population has rapidly increased and many improvements have been carried out. The Agra branch of the See also:Grand See also:Trunk road runs through the town, forming a wide See also:street lined on both sides by shops, which constitute the See also:principal See also:bazaar. Mainpuri has a speciality in the See also:production of carved wooden articles inlaidwith See also:brass See also:wire. The See also:American Presbyterian See also:mission manages a high school. The DISTRICT OF MAINPURI lies in the central See also:Doab. See also:Area, 1675 sq. m.

Pop. (1901), 829,357, an increase of 8.8% in the See also:

decade. It consists of an almost unbroken See also:plain, intersected by small See also:rivers, with a few undulating See also:sand ridges. It is wooded throughout with See also:mango groves, and isolated clumps of bdbul trees occasionally relieve the bareness of its saline usar plains. On the See also:south-western boundary the See also:Jumna flows in a deep alluvial See also:bed, sometimes sweeping See also:close to the high See also:banks which overhang its valley, and elsewhere leaving See also:room for a narrow See also:strip of fertile See also:soil between the See also:river and the upland plain. From the See also:low- lying lands thus formed a See also:belt of ravines stretches inland for some 2 m., often covered with See also:jungle, but affording See also:good pasturage for See also:cattle. The district is watered by two branches of the See also:Ganges See also:canal, and is traversed by the See also:main See also:line of the East Indian railway. Mainpuri anciently formed part of the See also:great See also:kingdom of See also:Kanauj, and after the fall of that famous See also:state it was divided into a number of See also:petty principalities, of which Rapri and Bhongaon were the See also:chief. In 1194 Rapri was made the seat of a Moslem See also:governor. Mainpuri See also:fell to the Moguls on See also:Baber's invasion in 1526, and, although temporarily wrested from them by the See also:short-lived Afghan See also:dynasty of Shere Shah, was again occupied by them on the reinstatement of See also:Humayun after the victory of See also:Panipat. Like the See also:rest of the See also:lower Doab, Mainpuri passed, towards the end of the 18th See also:century, into the See also:power of the See also:Mahrattas, and finally became a portion of the See also:province of Oudh. When this part of the See also:country was ceded to the British, in 18ot, Mainpuri town became the headquarters of the extensive district of See also:Etawah, which was in 1856 reduced by the formation of See also:Etah and Mainpuri into separate collectorates.

On the outbreak of the See also:

Mutiny in 1857 the See also:regiment stationed at Mainpuri revolted and attacked the town, which was successfully defended by the few Europeans of the station for a See also:week, until the arrival of the See also:Jhansi mutineers made it necessary to abandon the district.

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