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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 678 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:British See also:India, in See also:Karnal See also:district of the See also:Punjab, 53 M. N. of See also:Delhi by See also:rail. Pop. (1901), 26,914. The town is of See also:great antiquity, dating back to the great See also:war of the Mahabharata between the Pandavas and Kaurava brethren, when it formed one of the tracts demanded by Yudisthira from Duryodhana as the See also:price of See also:peace. In See also:modern times, the plains of Panipat thrice formed the See also:scene of decisive battles which sealed the See also:fate of upper India—in 1526, when See also:Baber completely defeated the imperial forces; in 1556, when his See also:grandson, See also:Akbar, on the same battlefield, conquered Himu, the See also:Hindu See also:general of the Afghan Adil Shah, thus a second See also:time establishing the See also:Mogul See also:power; and finally, on the 7th of See also:January 1761, when Ahmad Shah See also:Durani shattered the Mahratta confederacy. The neighbourhood is a favourite manoeuvring ground for British camps of instruction. The modern town stands near the old See also:bank of the See also:Jumna, on high ground composed of the debris of earlier buildings. It is a centre of See also:trade, and has manufactures of See also:cotton See also:cloth, See also:metal-See also:ware and See also:glass. There are factories for ginning and pressing cotton.

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