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SHAHJAHANPUR

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 770 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHAHJAHANPUR , a See also:

city and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, In the See also:Bareilly See also:division of the See also:United Provinces. The city is on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Deoha or Garra, 507 ft. above the See also:sea-level, with a station on the Oudh and See also:Rohilkhand railway, 768 m. N.W. of See also:Calcutta, and a military See also:cantonment. Pop. zt (1901) 75,128. It was founded in 1647 during the reign of Shah Jahan, whose name it bears, by See also:Nawab Bahadur See also:Khan, a See also:Pathan. His See also:mosque is the only See also:building of antiquarian See also:interest. There is a manufacture of See also:sugar, but no See also:great See also:trade. The DISTRICT OF SHAHIAHANPUR has an See also:area of 1727 sq. m. It consists of a See also:long and narrow See also:tract See also:running up from the See also:Ganges towards the Himalayas, and is for the most See also:part level and without any hills. The See also:principal See also:rivers are the See also:Gumti, Khanaut, Garai and Ramganga. To the See also:north-See also:east the See also:country resembles the See also:tarai in the preponderance of See also:waste and See also:forest over cultivated See also:land, in the sparseness of See also:population and in See also:general unhealthiness.

Between the Gumti and the Khanaut the country varies from a rather See also:

wild and unhealthy See also:northern region to a densely inhabited tract in the See also:south, with a productive See also:soil cultivated with sugar-See also:cane and other remunerative crops. The See also:section between the Deoha and Garai comprises much marshy land; but south of the Garai, and between it and the Ramganga, the soil is mostly of a sandy nature. From the Ramganga to the Ganges in the south is a continuous See also:low country of marshy patches, alternating with a hard clayey soil that requires much See also:irrigation in parts. Shahjahanpur contains a number of jhils or lakes, which afford irrigation for the See also:spring crops. The See also:climate is very similar to that of most parts of Oudh and Rohilkhand, but moister than that of the See also:Doab. The See also:annual rainfall averages about 37 in. In 1901 the population was 921,535. The principal crops are See also:wheat, See also:rice, See also:pulse, millets, sugar-cane and See also:poppy. The district suffered very severely from the See also:famine of 1877-1879. It is traversed by the See also:Lucknow-Bareilly section of the Oudh and Rohilkhand railway, with a See also:branch northwards from Shahjahanpur city. At See also:Rosa is a large sugar refinery and See also:rum distillery. Shahjahanpur was ceded to the See also:English by the nawab of Oudh in 18oi.

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Mutiny of 1857 it became the See also:scene of open See also:rebellion. The Europeans were attacked when in See also:church; three were shot down, but the See also:remainder, aided by a See also:hundred faithful sepoys, escaped. The force under See also:Lord See also:Clyde put a stop to the anarchy in See also:April 1858, and shortly afterwards See also:peace and authority were restored.

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