Baraut

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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.

Baraut

Town in the Baghpat tahsil of Meerut District, United Provinces, situated in 29 6' N. and 77 16' E., 27 miles north-west of Meerut city. Population (1901), 7,703. During the Mutiny some of the Jats who owned the town were conspicuous for disloyalty, and their property was confiscated and now forms part of the Sardhana Estate. The town is situated in a network of canal distributaries, and irrigation is forbidden near it for sanitary considerations. The American Presby- terian Mission has a branch here. Baraut was administered as a municipality from 1870 to 1904, the average income and expenditure being about Rs. 6,500. Under its new constitution as a 'notified area,' a tax on circumstances and property has been substituted for octroi. Iron buckets and cauldrons are made here, and there was formerly a large trade in ghi and safflower. In 1904 the town contained a middle school with 120 pupils, and three aided primary schools with 140 pupils.