Known initially as Chaupala, Moradabad was a bastion of the Katehria Rajputs who had constructed a mud-brick fort with a view of the Ganges. Except for a few monuments honouring…
Located in the northern portion of Salsette Island before Vasai Creek, Mira-Bhayandar is a city and municipal corporation in the Thane district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It shares…
The city of Meerut is located in the western region of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in the district of Meerut. It is an ancient city, and villages from…
The city’s history was first chronicled in writing in the third century BCE by the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta Maurya’s minister Kautilya and Megasthenes, the Greek envoy to the Mauryan empire.…
Members of the dominant Lodhi family of the Delhi Sultanate founded Ludhiana around 1480. Yusaf Khan and Nihand Khan, two of the reigning leaders, were sent by the sultan in…
When Rao Madho Singh, the second son of Rao Ratan of [Bundi], was appointed king by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir in 1631, Kota became a sovereign state. Soon after, Kota…
A significant industrial centre in Haryana is Faridabad. Haryana receives 50% of its income tax revenue from Gurgaon and Faridabad. Tractors, motorcycles, switch gears, refrigerators, shoes, tyres, and clothing are…
Guwahati is situated between the Brahmaputra River and the Shillong plateau’s foothills, with the town of Narengi to the east and the LGB International Airport to the west. The region…
The city of Gorakhpur is located in the Purvanchal area of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, by the Rapti river. Lucknow, the state capital, is located 270 kilometres to…
One of West Bengal’s largest industrial centres, Durgapur, was intended to be an integrated industrial town. It is situated alongside the Raniganj coalfields and the Damodar river. Jawaharlal Nehru, a…
The Mundari tribal people of South undivided Bihar resided in the present district, which was once a part of the Manbhum region. Some information about the seventh century A.D. can…
Dehradun is the capital and the most populated city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The Dehradun Municipal Corporation oversees it as the administrative centre of the district’s name, and…
