Ajrara is a village situated in the
Kharkhoda
Kharkhoda is a city and municipal committee in Sonipat district in the Indian state of Haryana and is a part of National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi. In Kharkhoda Chhapadeshwar Mahadev Mandir is very popular within the connected villages. At t ...
Mandal of
Meerut District in
Uttar Pradesh,
India. It is located 7.5 kilometres from its Mandal headquarters at Kharkhoda, and 20 kilometres from the district headquarters in
Meerut. The population of Ajrara, according to the 2001
Census of India
The decennial Census of India has been conducted 16 times, as of 2021. While it has been undertaken every 10 years, beginning in 1872 under British Viceroy Lord Mayo, the first complete census was taken in 1881. Post 1949, it has been conducted by ...
, was 11,513, and it is mainly a
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
village, with
Muslim Tyagis forming an important element.
Villages nearby include Badholi (2.2 km), Ataula (2.7 km), Atrara (2.8 km), Jasori (3.2 km), Kharkhari (3.2 km), Kaul (3.2 km), and Mundali (3.7 km)
The
Ajrara style of tabla playing gets its name from the village. It is thought to be an offshoot of the Delhi gharana because its founders, brothers Kallo Khan and Miroo Khan, had spent a considerable amount of time in Delhi learning from some of the great Ustads of the time, before returning to their native Ajrara.
References
Villages in Meerut district
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