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14 unusual facts about Meerut


26th Hussars

The regiment was raised at Meerut in June 1941 from a cadre of personnel taken from the 14th/20th King's Hussars, and was assigned to 2nd Indian Armoured Brigade.

Baba Dharam Dass

Unable to travel back to Pasrur to perform important rituals on the tomb of Baba Dharam Dass, they have created two replicas of his tomb, one in the town of Meerut near Delhi and other in Ludhiana in Indian Punjab.

Corps Léger d'Intervention

While the commandos trained in Jijel, Commandant de Crevècoeur arrived at Meerut, North West India on November 10, 1943 to introduce the CLI to British Special Operations Executive (SOE) Force 136's Colin Hercules Mackenzie.

Gaddi Kutta

The Gaddi is thought to have been developed by the Asur King Mahidant of Meerut by crossing the wild dingo-like hounds (these dingo type dogs are not dholes but are a type of wild mastiff type of pariahs, descended from the massive Hyrcanian dogs), found in the Jamuna Khader region of India, with the Sha-Khyi variety or fighting line of Tibetan Mastiffs for hunting purposes.

Hasan Mahmudi Kamboh

Hasan Mahmudi (or Mahdi) Kamboh was an ancestor of the Kamboh Nawabs od Meerut.

To perpetuate their memory, Husan Mahmudi erected Jama Masjid in 1019 AD, adjacent to where his Kamboh soldiers fell fighting during attack on Meerut.

Henry Whitelock Torrens

After a short service under the Foreign Office, he obtained a writership from the Court of Directors of the East India Company and arrived in India in Nov. 1828 and held various appointments at Meerut.

John McVeagh Lumsden

He was born in Meerut, India, the son of Thomas Lumsden and Hay Burnett, both natives of Scotland, and was educated in Kent, England and Aberdeenshire.

Kildare Dobbs

Born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, he was educated in Ireland and later spent 5 years in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Meerut scissors

Meerut Scissors is a pair of scissors made of recycled metal scrap by the microlevel industrial units run by a community in Meerut, North India.

Selwyn Fremantle

He was appointed Registrar of Co-operative Societies in the United Provinces in 1907, Collector and Magistrate of Allahabad in 1913, Commissioner of Bareilly in 1918, Controller of Passages of the United Provinces in 1919, and Commissioner of Meerut in 1919.

Sir Robert Hamilton, 6th Baronet

He was appointed Magistrate and Collector of Meerut in 1834 and served in this post for three years before moving to be Commissioner of the Agra Division from 1837 to 1841, including during the famine.

Vishnu Ganesh Pingle

A last-ditch attempt was made by Kartar Singh and Pingle to trigger a mutiny in the 12th Cavalry regiment at Meerut.

William Henry Benson

He reached Calcutta on 30 October 1821 and worked in a number of positions including a District Collector and Officiating Judge in Meerut, Bareilly and other parts of northern India.


Asad ibn Hashim

Large number of Asad's descendants can be found in Arab countries, Multan (Pakistan), Allahabad, Delhi, Meerut (India) and among the Muhajir population in Karachi and Hyderabad (Pakistan) which migrated from these Indian cities after partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

Baha-ud-din Zakariya

His descendants are found in Multan, Karor laal esun, Gujrat, Watli Distt.Chakwal, Pir Khara Distt.Jhelum, Bhera, Karuli, Attock (Pourmiana), Lahore, pail, Delhi, Meerut, Allahabad.

Battle of Mudki

Receiving reports of the disorder in the Punjab, he wrote late in 1845, "... it is evident that the Rani and the Chiefs are for their own preservation, endeavouring to raise a storm which, when raised, they will be powerless to direct or allay." He increased the British military force on the borders of the Punjab, stationing a division of 7,000 at Ferozepore, and moving other troops to Ambala and Meerut.

Communalism Combat

Some other papers, such as Meerut-e-Samachari and The Asian Age, saw the ads and reprinted them at no cost.

Daak

In U.P. it is also called donk there are so many villages of Daak like Kadva in Bagpat, Aaghapur in Noida, Behrampur, Andawali, Lawar, Shahpur Batavli in Meerut, Tamur Nagar in Delhi, Radour in saharanpur district.

Dhaulana

It lies on the road which takes off at Masoori and joins the Meerut-Hapur- Bulandsaher State Highway at Gulaothi.Dhoulana is 25 km from District l headquarters of Hapur.

Dor Rajputs

In the time of Mahmud of Ghazni (ruled 997 to 1030 AD) the chief of the Dors was Hardatta of Baran, who founded Meerut and Hapur.

Garhmukteshwar

At pre independence time it was under Meerut district area and Meerut has only two Tehsils one of them was Meerut Sadar Tehsil whereas otherwas Hapur Tehsil.

Mahatma Gandhi once comes to Garhmukteshwar via train after his successful movement to thanxs Landlord of Jhadina and also financer of Meerut 1942 Quit India Movement.

Hindustan Dainik

They are spread across Delhi, Bihar (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya and Bhagalpur), Jharkhand (Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Varanasi, Meerut, Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Moradabad, Aligarh, and Kanpur) and Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Haldwani).

Mainpuri

Some major cities within 300 kilometre range from Mainpuri include Agra, Delhi, Bareilly, Meerut, Firozabad, Shikohabad, Etawah, Gwalior, Kanpur,

Makhanalal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication

It also has campuses in Noida,Meerut Uttar Pradesh (adjoining Delhi) and at Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh supported by a network of 529 study institutes (as on March 31, 2005) throughout India and Nepal.

Muslim Dhobi

The Sheri trace their origin to Old Delhi, while the Agharia are originally from villages near Meerut and Hapur.

Saifi

Mohammad Gulzar Saifi, Indian educator, community organizer and polio survivor in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.

Siyaram Gangwar

During this period, he served people of Gola and Meerut while treating them with the Homeopathic and Ayurvedik medicines.

SRM University

The campus is spread over a green lawn environment(at Modinagar on Delhi-Meerut highway.