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Fort Unchagaon
Fort Unchagaon is a fort 110 km from Delhi in the village of Unchagaon, west of Bulandshahr district Bulandshahr district (also spelled Bulandshahar) is a district in the Meerut region in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), situated between the two rivers Ganga and Yamuna. It is a part of the National Capital Region of India, and Bula ..., India. British authorities in India gifted it to Raja Gursahai Singh as a reward for his loyalty during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and it was later inherited by his grand nephew Surendra Pal Singh at the age of ten-years. Gallery File:The Fort Unchagaon, gate.jpg, Gate File:Cannon, Unchagaon Fort.jpg, Cannon File:The Fort Unchagaon lawns.jpg, Lawns File:The Fort Unchagaon, courtyard.jpg, Courtyard File:The Fort Unchagaon, living room2.jpg, Living room See also * List of forts in Uttar Pradesh References External links * Bulandshahr district Forts in Uttar Pradesh {{India-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unchagaon
Unchagaon is a village in Bulandshahr district Bulandshahr district (also spelled Bulandshahar) is a district in the Meerut region in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), situated between the two rivers Ganga and Yamuna. It is a part of the National Capital Region of India, and Bula ..., Uttar Pradesh, India. See also * Fort Unchagaon References Villages in Bulandshahr district {{Bulandshahr-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulandshahr District
Bulandshahr district (also spelled Bulandshahar) is a district in the Meerut region in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), situated between the two rivers Ganga and Yamuna. It is a part of the National Capital Region of India, and Bulandshahr is the district headquarters. The district is situated between 28.4° south and 28.0° north latitudes and between 77.0° and 78.0° east longitudes. It is bordered by Hapur district to the north, Amroha and Sambhal districts to the east, Aligarh district to the south and Gautam Buddha Nagar district to the west. Demographics According to the 2011 census, Bulandshahr district had a population of 3,499,171, roughly equal to the nation of Lithuania or the US state of Connecticut. This makes it the 85th most populous district of the total 640. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 20.09%. Bulandshahar has a sex ratio of 892 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Raj
The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was himself employed by the British East India company from the age of seventeen until the British government assumed direct rule over India in 1858." * * and lasted from 1858 to 1947. * * The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and areas ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British paramountcy, called the princely states. The region was sometimes called the Indian Empire, though not officially. As ''India'', it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Rebellion Of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, northeast of Delhi. It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east. The rebellion posed a considerable threat to British power in that region, and was contained only with the rebels' defeat in Gwalior on 20 June 1858., , and On 1 November 1858, the British granted amnesty to all rebels not involved in murder, though they did not declare the hostilities to have formally ended until 8 July 1859. Its name is contested, and it is variously described as the Sepoy Mutiny, the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, the Revolt of 1857, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surendra Pal Singh (politician)
Surendra Pal Singh (17 May 1917 – 10 December 2009) was an Indian politician and Union government minister. An agriculturalist, he was educated at Colonel Brown Cambridge School and Cambridge University, from which he took a bachelor's degree. The Fort, Uchagaon In 1927, at the age of 10-years, he inherited The Fort at Unchagaon, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. Political career He was a member of the 3rd Lok Sabha from Bulandshahr (Lok Sabha constituency) in Uttar Pradesh State, India. He was elected to 4th, 5th and 8th Lok Sabha The 8th Lok Sabha ran from 31 December 1984 to 27 November 1989. Politicians were elected in December 1984, taking office by the end of the month. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the bicameral Parliament of India. 9 s ... from Bulandshahr. Death He died in Bulandshahr on 10 December 2009, at the age of 92-years. References 1917 births 2009 deaths People from Bulandshahr district India MPs 1962–1967 India MPs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Forts In Uttar Pradesh
This is a list of forts in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 .... Gallery {{DEFAULTSORT:Forts in Uttar Pradesh U F F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
