DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ALIGARH DISTRICT1875 |
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acres Agra Akrabad Aligarh district amongst amount assessed Atrauli average area Badgújar Baniyas Barauli Bhagwant Singh Bijaigarh Brahmans Bulandshahr district castes Cawnpore census of 1872 cent Chandaus Chauhán classes crops cultivated area culturable Daya Rám Dehli ditto Duáb estates Etáwa farmed fasli feet females free of revenue Gahlot Ganges Canal Gangíri Gorai Government Grand Trunk Road Harduaganj Hasangarh Háthras hereditary tenants Hindús house-tax averaging Husain Iglás increase indigo inhabitants irrigation Jádon Jaláli Jalesar Játs Joár Jumna Káli khádir Khair Khán Koil land land-revenue landholders last settlement maháls male Marhatta maunds ment miles from Aligarh Mortgage Morthal Mursán Musalmáns mutiny Muttra Nánu parganah persons population in 1865 portion possession proprietors Raja Rajpúts rental road rupees Sásni Sikandra Rao soil Somna souls square miles statistics tahsil taluka talukadárs Tappal tenants-at-will Thákur Thornton total area total population town in parganah tract transferred village police numbering W. H. Smith whilst zamíndárs
Passatges populars
Pàgina 498 - On the 12th of October Major-General Dickens invested the fort of Kamona ; on the 19th November a breach was effected, and an attempt made to carry the place by storm, but the assailants were driven back with great slaughter, the loss of men and officers exceeding that sustained in many of the pitched battles of the time. 8 The impression however made on the garrison was such that...
Pàgina 437 - Hathras he surrendered and consented to dismantle his own fort of Mursan. Raja Bhagwant Singh died in 1823, leaving a son, Tikam Singh, 1 and the whole of his estates were held under direct management by the Collector for the year 1823-24. All persons who considered themselves to possess rights as being the descendants of those who were the original zamindars previous to the annexation of their respective villages to the parganah, as well as those who only rested their claims on long residence and...
Pàgina 526 - There is no canal irrigation near, and drainage oould easily be effected to the Kali, distant 2-£ miles to the west. There is a tahsili, police-station, post-office, and a school here. The tahsili is on a high-raised site in the centre of the town formerly occupied by a fort. It consists of a group of buildings surrounded by a high wall, and communicates by a metalled road, planted with trees, with the market-place below. The sarai lies in the centre of the town between the two bazars. The school...
Pàgina 495 - Britain, who lately quitted the service of Scindiah, to avoid serving against his country, were I not to recommend him to your Lordship's particular attention. He gallantly undertook to lead Colonel Monson to the gate, and point out the road through the fort, which he effected in a most gallant manner, and Colonel Monson has reported having received infinite benefit from his services.
Pàgina 485 - ... had occasioned much trouble by 1 Ledlie's MUcellany in Aligarb Statistic*, 340. * Tnjul Maisir in Dowion'i Elliot, II., 233.221, 341, 158, 380. their deceits and stratagems ; therefore by the edge of the sword they were despatched to the fire of hell. Three bastions were raised as high as heaven with their heads, and their carcases became the food of beasts of prey. That tract was freed from idols and idol worship, and the foundations of infidelity were destroyed.
Pàgina 517 - The outline of the works at the dine of the capture by the British was a polygon of probably ten sides, having at each 1 Page 488. angle a bastion, with a renny or fausse-braie, well provided with cannon. Outside this line of defence was a ditch, above 100 feet wide, thirty feet deep from the top of the excavation, and having ten feet of water. Across this ditch was no passage, but by a narrow causeway, defended by a traverse, mounted with three 6-ponnders.
Pàgina 427 - Netherlands, and about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century was brought thence to England by protestant refugees. Lewis Roberts, in ' The Treasure of Traffic,' published in 1641, makes the earliest mention extant of the manufacture in England.
Pàgina 438 - Mursán, the descendants of the original zamíndárs who held the villages before they came under the Raja's authority are still forthcoming, and that neither by their own act, nor by the will of the former Government, have they forfeited their right of managing their respective estates as long as they shall pay the revenue demanded from them.
Pàgina 432 - ... have been awful. Daya Ram with a few horse made his escape in the dark that same night, and, though challenged and pursued by a piquet of the 8th dragoons, got off with little damage. The rest of the garrison, in attempting to follow, were driven in and obliged to surrender at discretion.
Pàgina 484 - ... audacity enough to enable him to set at nought a royal Rajput; and that therefore it would be a desirable site for the foundation of a city and fort. Raja Budh Sen, after consulting his astrologer, found that it was an auspicious moment for the purpose, so at once he dug up a little clay from the jhil with his own dagger, and laid the foundation of a city which he named Kol after the jhil. In a few years the fortress and city were finished, and the seat of government was removed from Jalali to...