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unusual facts about Badgaon, Saharanpur


Badgaon

Badgaon, Saharanpur, a village in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India.


Amar Singh Thapa

He also engaged in defending the western fronts of Nahan, Chamba, Almora, Kangra, Saharanpur, Dehradun against his British counterpart, General David Ochterlony.

Badgaon

Badgaon Bandh, a village in Mavli tehsil of Udaipur district, Rajasthan, India.

Banda Singh Bahadur

Banda Singh sent Sikhs to the Uttar Pradesh and Sikhs took over Saharanpur, Jalalabad and other areas near by bringing relief to the repressed population.

Bhabhisa

Kandhla is nearest town which is connecting to State Highway Delhi to Saharanpur.

Bishwa Ijtema

Muhammad Ilyas revived the Tabligh movement in 1927 at Saharanpur of Uttar Pradesh, India and at the same time organized regional congregation or Ijtema.

Chamoli district

In the beginning British ruler kept this area under Dehradun and Saharanpur.

History of Dehradun

In between, until Najib-ul-Daula, the governor of Saharanpur, who later founded city of Najibabad, invaded the city with his army of Rohillas in 1757, and ruled here, leading to its wide spread development, though after his death in 1770, it was successively annexed by surrounding tribes of Rajputs, Gujjars, Sikhs and Gurkhas who ruled the region in quick succession, and lead to its steady downfall.

Finally in 1803, it was annexed by the Gurkhas, who made the king of Garhwal, Pradyuman Shah, flee to Saharanpur, leaving the region to be ruled by an iron fist by the Gurkha king 'BAL BHADRA THAPA'.

Indian Half-Bred

The Half-Bred is now produced all over India especially at the army remount depot at Saharanpur and army stud at Babugarh.

Jograj Singh Gurjar

Saharanpur used to known as Gujjargarh till 19th century.It was under the possession of khubed Gurjars.It has its capital as Jhabreda and later Landhaura.

John Forbes Royle

For nearly ten years he held the post of superintendent of the East India Company's botanic garden in the Himalayas at Saharanpur.

Nagarjun

His first permanent job of a full-time teacher, took him to Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), though he didn't stay there for long as his urge to delve deeper into Buddhist scriptures, took him to the Buddhist monastery at Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, where in 1935, he became a Buddhist monk, as needed to enter the monastery and study the scriptures, just as his mentor, Rahul Sankrityayan had done earlier, and hence took upon the name "Nagarjun".


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