Baghpat

Coordinates: 28°57′N 77°13′E / 28.95°N 77.22°E / 28.95; 77.22
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Baghpat
Vyaghraprastha
City
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Vehicle registrationUP-17
Websitebagpat.nic.in

Baghpat, historically known as Vyaghraprastha, is a city in the

administrative headquarters of Bagpat district, which was established in 1997. It is part of the National Capital Region, surrounding New Delhi.[3]

Etymology

The original name of the city was Vyaghraprastha (

Pandavas, so as to avert the war.[5]

During the Mughal Era, the city was named as Baghpat (Hindustani: बाग़पत) by emperors in Delhi, in reference to the city's gardens.[6]

History

Baghpat is listed in the Ain-i-Akbari as a pargana under Delhi sarkar, as producing a revenue of 3,532,368 dams for the imperial treasury and supplying a force of 200 infantry and 20 cavalry.[7]

Geography

Baghpat is located in western Uttar Pradesh, on the east bank of the Yamuna river. It is approximately 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of Delhi and 48 kilometres (30 mi) west of Meerut, on the main Delhi–Saharanpur highway. Baghpat is the headquarters of Baghpat district, which is in the shape of a north–south rectangle. To the north of Baghpat district are Shamli and Muzaffarnagar district, to the east Meerut district, to the south Ghaziabad district, and to the west, across the Yamuna, Delhi, and Sonipat district in Haryana state.[3]

Demographics

As of the

Scheduled Caste population was 2,337. In 2011.[1]

Administration

Bhagpat includes three towns—a

notified area, or city, councils (Baraut, Khekhda and Baghpat)—within the tehsil, as well as 103 villages.[8]

The chairman of Baghpat's

Nagar Palika Parishad is Riazuddin (3rd term).[9] The district magistrate is Jitendra Pratap Singh.[10] and the superintendent of police is Arpit Vijayvargiya.[11]

List of Villages

Education

  • JagMohan Institute of Management and Technology

Notable people

References

  1. ^ a b "Census of India: Baghpat". Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  3. ^ a b "About District". bagpat.nic.in. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  4. ^ "इतिहास". bagpat.nic.in (in Hindi). Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  5. ISBN 978-81-86034-00-2
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  6. ^ Cotton, James Sutherland; Burn, Sir Richard; Meyer, Sir William Stevenson (1908). The Imperial Gazetteer of India: Argaon to Bardwān. Clarendon Press. p. 190.
  7. ^ Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak; H. S. Jarrett (1891). The Ain-i-Akbari. Translated by Henry Sullivan. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 286. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  8. ^ "Baghpat Tehsil – Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh". Indian Census 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  9. ^ "Welcome to Nagar Palika Parishad Baghpat". Baghpat Nagar Palika Parishad. 2017. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  10. ^ "Bagpat District | Land of Sugarcane | India". Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  11. ^ "Who's Who | Bagpat District | India". bagpat.nic.in. Retrieved 8 September 2023.

External links

  • Media related to Bagpat at Wikimedia Commons
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