Shikarpur Town Bulandshahr,1908
Shikarpur Town Bulandshahr
This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. |
Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Town in the District and tahsil of Buland- shahr, United Provinces, situated in 28 17' N. and 78 i' E., 13 miles south of Bulandshahr. Population (1901), 12,249. The present town owes its existence to Sikandar Lodi, who built a hunting-lodge here at the end of the fifteenth century, near the site of an older town now represented by a mound called the Talpat Nagari or Anyai Khera. North of the site is a remarkable building of red sandstone called the Bara Khamba, or 'twelve pillars,' forming an unfinished tomb begun by Saiyid Fazl-ullah, son-in-law of the emperor Farrukh Siyar, about 1718. The town contains a fine walled sarai built in the seventeenth century, and many substantial brick houses and a few handsome mosques. The American Methodists have a branch mission here. The town is admin- istered under Act XX of 1856, with an income of about Rs. 4,500. The chief manufactures are cotton cloth and shoes, and excellent wood- carving is turned out on a small scale. There are a middle school with 190 pupils, and an aided primary school with 30.
