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8 unusual facts about Fatehpur


Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh

James Miller :He was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

In village Renh, which is 25 km in south-west of Fatehpur town, some articles of archeological interest have been found which are of time 800 B. C. Many articles like coins, bricks, idols etc. of Maurya period, Kusan period & Gupta period have been found throughout the district.

Gautam Rajputs

According to a very widely accepted tradition, the Gautam Rajputs once owned the whole of the present Fatehpur district(Uttar Pradesh), together with much adjoining territory on both sides of the Ganges.

Radhe Shyam Gupta

Gupta successfully contested the 1993, 1996 and 2002 assembly elections and represented Fatehpur Vidhan Sabha constituency of Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh.

Radhe Shyam born to father Late Shitla Prasad Gupta, in a Agrahari Vaishya famiy of Fatehpur, India.

Tekari Raj

(21)Annual subscription for repairs of road between Tekari and Fatehpur - Rs. 16000;

Thomas Holderness

He chose the North-Western Provinces and served from 1873 to 1876 as a district officer in the small towns of Bijnor, Fatehpur, and Muzaffarnagar.

Unnao

The only great river of the district is the Ganga which first touches the district near the village of Purwa Gahir, in pargana Bangarmau and flows south-eastward, separating this district from districts Kanpur and Fatehpur.


Abaqati family

The Nishapuri Sada'at (Sayeds) of Barabanki (adjoining areas of Kintoor, Fatehpur, Jarwal and Lucknow) are Kazmi or Musavi Sayeds; that is they claim descent from the Prophet through his daughter's line and the line of the seventh Imam of the Shi'a Muslims, Musa al-Kazem.

Bahadur Shah I

The Bihari-Bhutanese alliance was defeated during the Battle of Patgram and the Mughals captured Boda, Patgram, eastern Pargana, Karjihat, Kakina and Fatehpur Chakla by the year 1714.

Farrukhsiyar

In the year 1714, Ibrahim Khan the Mughal Faujdar of Ghoraghat and Dhaka once again defeated Yanja Narayan an ally of Druk Rabgye the ruler of Bhutan and consolidated territories for the Mughal Empire in Koch Bihar particularly at Karjihat, Kakina and Fatehpur Chakla.

Fatehpur Thakiala

Fatehpur Thakiala was part of the Mendhar subdivision of Poonch before the partition of Kashmir in 1947.

Fatehpur Thakiala, also known as Nakyal, is one of the three tehsils of the Kotli District in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.

It was renamed Fatehpur Thakiala to honour the late Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi.

Shri Amrit Nath Ashram

Shri Amrit Nath Ashram is an ashram of the Nath Sampradaya of MannaNathi Panth founded by Shri Amritnathji Maharaj in a small town of Fatehpur in region of Shekhawati which comes in Sikar district of Rajasthan, India.


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