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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 210 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SARDHANA , a See also:

town of See also:British See also:India, in See also:Meerut See also:district of the See also:United Provinces, 12 M. by See also:rail N.W. of Meerut. Pop. (1901), 12,467. Though now a decayed See also:place, Sardhana is historically famous as the See also:residence of the Begum Samru (d. 1836). This extraordinary woman was a Mussulman married to Reinhardt or Sombre (Samru), the perpetrator of the See also:massacre of British prisoners at See also:Patna in 1763. On his See also:death in 1778 she succeeded to the command of his See also:mercenary troops. Ultimately she was baptized into the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church, and bequeathed an immense See also:fortune to charitable and religious uses. She built in Sardhana a Roman Catholic See also:cathedral, a See also:college for training priests, and a handsome See also:palace.

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