Muzaffarnagar

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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.

MuzafFarnagar Town

Head-quarters of the District and tahsil of the same name, United Provinces, situated in 29° 28' N. and 77° 41' E., on the main road from Meerut to Roorkee and Hard war, and on the North- Western Railway. The population is increasing rapidly : (1872) 10,793, (1881) 15,080, (1891) 18,166, and (1901) 23,444. In 1901 Hindus numbered 12,847 arid Musalmans 9,519. The town was founded by the son of Muzaffar Khan, Khan-i-Jahan, in the reign of Shah Jahan, about 1633, close to the site of an older town known as Sarwart. It remained a place of little importance, until in 1824 it became the head-quarters of a sub-collectorship of Saharanpur District, and two years later Muzaffarnagar District was formed. It is a closely- built town, crowded with small streets, but is well situated on high land above the Kali Nadf, to which the drainage is carried. Besides" the ordinary offices, there are a towTi hall, high and middle schools, and male and female hospitals. There are no resident officials besides those of the ordinary District staff". The American Presbyterian and Reformed Methodist Missions have branches here. Muzaffarnagar was constituted a municipality in 1872. The income and expenditure during the ten years ending 1901 averaged Rs. 22,000. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 35,000, chiefly derived from octroi (Rs. 21,000) and house tax (Rs. 6,000) ; and the expenditure was Rs. 46,000, A drainage and paving project was completed in 1903 at a cost of more than Rs. 30,000, and the town is now very well drained. The place owes its prosperity largely to the export trade in wheat and sugar, and the only considerable manufacture is that of blankets. Every year in March a horse show is held here. The high school contains 230 pupils, the tahsill school 160, and a girls' school 35.