Sikandarabad Town, 1908

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Sikandarabad Town

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.

Head-quarters of the tahsil of the same name in Bulandshahr District, United Provinces, situated in 28 28' N. and 77 42' E., on the grand trunk road, 4 miles from Sikandarahad station on the East Indian Railway. Population (1901), 18,290, of whom 10,599 were Hindus and 6,814 Musalmans. The town was built by Sikandar LodI in 1498, and was the head-quarters of a pargana or mahal under Akbar. In the eighteenth century it was held for a time by Najib-ud-daula. Saadat Khan, Nawab of Oudh, attacked and defeated a Maratha force here in 1736. The Jat army of Bharatpur encamped at Sikandarabad in 1763, but fled across the Jumna on the death of Suraj Mai and defeat of Jawahir Singh. Under Maratha rule the town was the head-quarters of a brigade under Perron ; and after the fall of Aligarh, Colonel James Skinner held it. During the Mutiny of 1857, the neighbouring Gujars, Rajputs, and Muhammadans attacked and plundered Sikandarabad ; but Colonel Greathed's column relieved the town on September 27, 1857. There are several tombs and mosques of some antiquity. Besides the tahsil and police station there is a dispensary ; and the American Methodists, the Church Missionary Society, and the Zanana Bible and Medical Mission have branches here. Sikandarabad has been a municipality since 1872. During the ten years ending 1901 the income and expenditure averaged Rs. 15,000. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 23,000, chiefly derived from octroi (Rs, 17,000) ; and the expenditure was Rs. 21,000. There is not much trade ; but fine cloth or muslin is manufactured and exported to Delhi, and a cotton-gin has been recently opened, which employed 105 hands in 1903. The town contains a flourishing Anglo- vernacular school with more than 200 pupils, a tahsil school with 120, and five primary schools with 240 pupils.