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• Agra
  ==Agra / [[:hi:आगरा|आगरा]]== [[File:Tajmahal.jpg|Tajmahal, Agra|thumb|250px]]
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• Mathura A Gazetteer-6
  ...of 14 miles from Mahaban by the unmetalled road which leads from Baldeo to Agra. Near the village is situated a curious hill known as the Bhim Tila; and th ...argely increased of late years for in 1881 it amounted to 3,579 souls. The Agra canal passes close to the site, and is bridged at the point where the road
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• Mathura During Mughal Regimes
  ...to repulse the invaders fail, the beleaguered infidels at last quitted the fort and tried to cross the broad river which flowed in its rear. When some 50,0 ...soner to Delhi and thrown into the fortress of Salim-garh, adjacent to Red Fort. He, too, was subsequently removed to Gwalior and there murdered.
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• Mathura A Gazetteer-21
  ...to the Public Works department; and about half a mile from the town on the Agra side is a large and commodious bungalow belonging to the Musalman family of ...h by the district of Aligarh, on the east by that of Etah, on the south by Agra, and on the west by tahsil Mahaban of the Muttra district; and has an avera
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• Mathura A Gazetteer-8
  ...zamindars, and three quarters of the whole revenue of Rs. 5,120 go to the Agra College. A weekly market is held in the village on Tuesdays; and there is a ...the tahsil of thex same name. The principal feature of the town is a large fort-like sarai covering an area of 12 acres, with battlemented walls and bastio
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• Mathura A District Memoir Chapter-2
  ...to repulse the invaders fail, the beleaguered infidels at last quitted the fort and tried to cross the broad river which flowed in its rear. When some 50,0 ...omentous battle of Samogarh, <ref>Samogarh&nbsp;is village, one March form Agra, since named, in honour of the event, Fatihabad &lsquo;the place of victory
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• Mathura A Gazetteer-7
  ...ndars were also forfeited because they took part in the assault on Nohjhil fort. The population has increased from 4,427 persons in 1881 to 4,880 persons i ...ahman, of Jaipur; of Chiman Lal, of Muttra, 1778; of Jadu Ram, Khattri, of Agra, 1768; of Chunna, Halwai, of Bharatpur, 1808; and of Puran Chand, Pachauri,
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• History Of Mathura
  ...unt about Mathura and its surroundings like this: "Between [[Delhi]] and [[Agra]], a distance of fifty or sixty leagues, there are no fine towns such as tr ...French traveller named Tavernier, covering his first journey from Delhi to Agra in 1659, calls Mathura as the Shah ki Sarai and gives the name Mathura to t
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• Mathura A Gazetteer-5
  ...iteral translation of the name "Mahaban." The identification of Kulchaud's fort with Mahaban and that of Maharutu-l-Hind with Muttra depends on the authori ...r, a battle was fought. Victory declared for Sikandar who became master of Agra and Dehli. Ibrahim fled to Sambhal. <ref>E.H.I.,V.,pp.243-244</ref> Not man
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• Mathura A District Memoir Chapter-1
  The modern district of Mathura is one of the five which together make up the Agra Division of the North West Provinces. It has an area of 1,453 square miles, ...was first included in British territory, part of it was administered from Agra and part from Sadabad. This arrangement continued till 1832, when the city
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• Mathura A Gazetteer-16
  ...of chaudhri and still own shares in Mahaban known as thok chaudhriyan. The fort was recovered by the Muhammadans in the reign of Ala-ud-din by Sufi Yahya o ...Barauli and Nera, and from Baldeo to Kanjauli in Sadabad where the Aligarh-Agra metelled road is met. Besides the railway bridge at Muttra which ensures co
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• Mathura A District Memoir Chapter-6
  ...cted the notice of the traveller Bernier, who writes :—" Between Delhi and Agra, a distance of fifty or sixty leagues, there are no fine towns ; the whole ...sera to Agra, 6." One stage must have been omitted at the end.</ref> from Agra on the road to Delhi. It is one of the most sumptuous edifices in all India
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• Mathura A District Memoir Chapter-10
  ...igious aggrandizement, and probably dates from the time when the old Hindu fort was occupied by a Muhammadan garrison and the Hindus expelled beyond its im ...dhari, and still own two shares in Maha-ban, called Thok Chaudhariyan. The fort was recovered by the Muhammadans in the reign of Ala-ud-din, by Sufi Yahya
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• Mathura A District Memoir Chapter-5
  museum at Agra.</ref> ...to enclose Buddhist shrines and monuments. The whole were made over to the Agra museum, where the railings were roughly put together in such a way as to in
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• Mathura A District Memoir Chapter-13
  ...e pargana, is crossed by ferries at Shah-pur, Khairal, and Majhoi. The new Agra Canal passes through the villages of Hathana, Kharot, Hasanpur Nagara, Kosi ...h traveller sees little from it but mud walls and the backs of houses. The Agra Canal runs nearly parallel to it still further back, with one bridge on the
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• Mathura A Gazetteer-2
  ...a Jalesar, but excluding 84 villages afterwards transferred to Muttra from Agra; and Mr. Alexander, who furnished the returns, estimated that cultivation h ...edented figure of 310,834 acres pr 51.28 per cent. The introduction of the Agra canal has of course had the effect of entirely altering the relative positi
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• Mathura A District Memoir Chapter-11
  ...neighbouring coun ty, both on the Mathura and the Bharatpur side, with the fort of Dig and the heights of Nand-ganw and Barsana in the distance. ...aja Balavant Sinh, who was placed on the throne after the reduction of the fort of Bharat-pur by Lord Combermere in 1826. The British army figures conspicu
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• Mathura A Gazetteer-3
  ...nd 84 villages of pargana Farah were received in 1878 in compensation from Agra. As, however, Jalesar has ceased bodily to form a portion of the district, ...ra, however, the sites are generally perched on hillocks. They have thus a fort-like appearance. They were constructed in this form, as has already been no
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• Mathura A District Memoir Chapter-4
  ...ssion on behalf of the Paris Museum of Natural History, and passed through Agra and Mathura on his way to the Himalayas in the cold weather of 1829-30. “ ...ention of Batesar<br>"Lieu celebre et bien bati sur le Djemna, 28 milles d'Agra. Une multitude de peuple s'y<br> rassemble pour se laver dans ce fleuve et
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• Mathura A District Memoir Chapter-9
  ...economical contrivance, suggested by Mr. Inglis, Executive Engineer on the Agra Canal, in lieu of the costly and tedious process of insert ing a new lintel ...ey would have had may be gathered from a view of the temple in the Gwaliar fort; which, though some 600 years earlier in date, is in general arrangement th
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