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) of

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. A Sub Divisional Magistrate, also called Sub Divisional Officer, or pargana-adhikari (literally pargana-officer) is the head official. Under the three-tier

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Institution system, Nawabganj comes under Bareilly Zila (

) Panchayat ( ZP) and is a headquarters of

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s. There are 1007 gram panchayats in Bareilly district and 52,002 Gram Panchayats in the Uttar Pradesh state.

History

Nawabganj was originally called Bijauria. The present name refers to a market built here under

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in the late 1700s. The market quickly came to prosper, benefitting from its advantageous position on the road from

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pargana in Bareilly tehsil). Around the turn of the 20th century, Nawabganj was described as a compactly built town, with markets held four times a week and generating significant trade in local produce. A large fair was held on the festival day of Dasahra. The population in 1901 was 4,199, consisting of 2,352

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Demographics and geography

In 1865, the population of Nawabganj town was 4,418 and population of Nawabganj pargana was 1,22,264. Population growth between 1891 and 1901 was only 2.2% because of severe droughts in 1860-61 and 1869-70. ::The town of Hafizganj already existed when Nawabganj was founded.

Hafiz Rahmat Khan Hafiz Rahmat Khan (1723 – April 1774) was the Regent of Rohilkhand in North India, from 1749 to 1774. He was a Pashtun by background, ruling over Rohillas. Hafiz Rahmat Khan had served honorably throughout the reign of three Mughal Emperor ...

founded Hafizganj in order to offer merchants a resting place on the road from Bareilly to Pilibhit. New ''ganjes'' or ''quasbas'' were established to lure foreign trade and credit towards the

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territories.

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Vol 7 1908, gives statistics of area and population of Nawabganj Tehsil as follows: ;Nawabganj Experimental Sugar Factory The area was known for ingenious production of gur and

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. Earliest known reference of this in

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is found in The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturers journal dated 18 January 1919. The report titled "The Improvement of the Indigenous Methods of Gur and Sugar making in the United Provinces" was published in 1916 in Imperial Agricultural Research Institute Bulletin 82, 1916 by William Edward Hulme, Sugar Engineer Expert to Government of India and R. P. Sanghi, Sugar Chemist, Nawabganj Experimental Factory. Reference to the paper (IOR/V/27/515/31 1916) can be found in

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. Nawabganj Experimental Factory was erected in 1914–15. The site chosen was a government farm. As a sugar engineer, William Hulme was assigned to study the indigenous methods of sugar manufacture with a view to determining the best methods of extracting and concentrating the juice for the manufacture of ''gur'' and white sugar respectively, both on the scale within the means of individuals or small groups of cultivators, and on a scale suited to the resources of capitalists now engaged in the industry in India. ;Rivers Pungheli The Pungeilee rises in a jheel near Mouzah Bhugnera in Pergunnah Jehanabad, traverses Jehanabad and Nawabgunj, and joins the Apsurha at Moondeea. It is fed by springs in its bed which is of clay and sand. The stara pierced through in sinking wells of the bridge on the pillibheet road were alternately clay and sand down to 20 feet below the surface, when boulders were first met with. Kandu The Kandoo is a small stream which rises near Aspore in Pergunnah Nawabgunj, and falls into the east Bygool and Bhursur in Crore. It is crossed by the Pillibheet road by an old masonry bridge near Sithra in Nawabgunj. The banks are steep, and there is very little irrigation from it. Begul River Canals The Bygool Canals take their origin from the Roodpore and Bhanpore earthen dams, and the Chooreyli and Giram masonry dams. After leaving the

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, they run through Jehanabad, Ritcha, and Nawabgunj Pergunnahs. They consist of a group of small water-courses known as the Burha feeder, and the Sisona, Bhanpore, Nukutpore, Suseynia, Chooreylee, Girem, and Ougunpore Rujbuhas. None of them are more that about 10′ in width, and their velocity is 3′ per second. They can irrigate about 30,000 acres per year.

Politics

* Present Member of Parliament (MP) in Lok sabha : Mr.

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, Bhartiya Janta party, holding the charge of State Minister of Finance Ministry, in Government of India * Present Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) : Dr. Mukta Prasad Arya Gangwar Mr. Kesar Singh Gangwar, who made fun of the masks belonging to Bhartiya Janta Party died of Corona virus. He was the MLA. * Present Chairperson of Nagar Palika : Mrs. Shehla Tahir, Samajwadi party

Education

* University- B.r. genius international school * Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University (Bareilly) * Graduation College- *Adarsh Mahavidyalaya Hardua Nawabganj * Gangasheel Mahavidyalaya, Faijullapur, Nawanganj * Lal Bahadur Shastri Group Of Education institutions Hardua Kifaytulla Nawabganj, Bareilly * Inter College- * Bhagwati inter college * Spice Sr. Secondary School *Jay Prakash Narayan (JPN) Inter College * Shri Krishna Inter College * Jesus and Mary Inter College * Government Girls Inter College * R P GANGWAR INTER COLLEGE * Spice Children Academy * Standard Moral Junior High School * Jesus and Mary Institute of Distance Learning * Mission Public School * St. Thomas * St. Paul * Lalta Prasad SVM Inter college Nawabganj Bareilly * Khushi technical training centre Ghass Mandi Nawabganj

Tourism

Nearby points of interest include: * Bijauria Railway Station (3.1 km) * Kainchi pul (near Bijauria Railway Station) * Laal pul (near Bijauria Railway Station) * Kamani Bridge (Purana Pul) * Jama Masjid (River bank of Panghaili) * Bareilly (32 km) *

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(142 km) * Pilibhit (21 km) * World-famous

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(178 km) *

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(120 km) * Sitarganj (56 km) * Haridwar (311 km) * Nanakmatta, Nanaksagar (65 km) * Mahendera Nagar (Nepal) (87 km) *

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(55 km) * Sethal (12 km) * Hafiz Ganj (9.1 km) * Barkhan (8.2 km) * Oswal Sugar Mill Aurangabaad (5.1 km) *purana pull *Grem Dam ( 2 km ) *Shiv polyhouse grem (3 km) *Ahemdabad (Village of Keshar Singh MLA) *VIP college like Bhagwati inter college, Krishna instr college, Jpn college, Ggic, St. Thomas, mission public school...

References

External links

Government of Uttar Pradesh

Bareilly official website (NIC)
{{Historical regions of Rohilkhand Cities and towns in Bareilly district