Place:Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Watchers
  • no watchers


NameHapur
TypeCity or town
Located inGhaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Hapur is a city in, as well as the headquarters of, Hapur district, in Uttar Pradesh, India. Located about east of New Delhi, the city is part of the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR). National Highway 9 passes through the city, connecting it to Delhi.

[edit]

History

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Hapur is said to have been founded in the 10th century.

Hapur is listed in the Ain-i-Akbari as a pargana under Delhi sarkar, producing a revenue of 2,103,589 dams for the imperial treasury and supplying a force of 300 infantry and 4 cavalry.

It was granted by Daulat Scindia to his French general Pierre Cuillier-Perron at the end of the 18th century. Under the British Raj, Hapur was within Meerut District, was surrounded by several fine groves, and carried on considerable trade in sugar, jaggery (gur), grain, cotton, timber, bamboo, and brass and steel utensils.[1] The important cavalry remount depot and farm of Babugarh adjoined the town.[2] Earlier it was within Ghaziabad district but in 2012 it became a separate district. It comes within Meerut commissionaire.

[edit]

Research Tips

This place has no commentary yet. It is only a stub. You can help by editing it and sharing what you know: research tips, history, relationships with other places, etc.


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Hapur. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Hapur%2C_Ghaziabad%2C_Uttar_Pradesh%2C_India"