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Uttar

Uttar means north in Hindi and many other Indian languages.


A. K. Patel

Dr. A. K. Patel was one of pioneer to start Pilvai College under management of Uttar-Purva Gujarat Uchcha Kelvani Mandal (society promoting education in local area) in 1960 along with Ramchandra Amin, Chagan Bha Patel, Gangaram Raval and Motibhai Chaudhary.

Abdul Rashid Khan

Khan has participated in many national and regional conferences like Sadarang Conference, Godrej Conference, Lucknow Mahotsav, Dover Lance Conference, ITC Sangeet Sammelan, Prayag Sangeet Samiti Sangeet Sammelan all over India and has been felicited by Critics, fellow artists and many reputed recognized institutions like Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy, (1981), Banaras Hindu University (1993), Eastern Zone cultural center and Press club Kolkata.

Allahabad Airport

Union Minister of Civil Aviation Ajit Singh has requested Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to transfer 50 acres of identified land in Allahabad to Airports Authority of India (AAI) to develop a new Civil Enclave to handle civil airport operations in the City.

Badgaon

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

Bagha Jatin

Niralamba gave Jatin complementary information about, and links to, the units set up by him in Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.

Baragaon

Baragaon, Jhansi, a town in the Jhansi district, Uttar Pradesh, India

Baragaon, Barabanki, a village in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India

Barauna

Barauna Kalan, a town in Auraiya district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

Bazigar language

Speakers are scattered across the country, but the principal block of speakers are south of Chandigarh in adjoining areas of the states of Panjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh.

Bhartendu Academy of Dramatic Arts

BNA was founded on 2 July 1975 under the auspices of Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy (Government of Uttar Pradesh) and by the sheer effort of the Veteran Theatre Personality Padma Shri Raj Bisaria.

Bhaskaracharya Tripathi

He has received many awards, including the Nirjhariṇī Award by the Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Academy for his work Mṛtkūṭam kāvyaśatam, the Paṃ jagannātha Award by the Delhi Sanskrit Academy, the Cārūdeva śāstrī award for his work Saṃskṛta jīvanam, Madhya Pradesh Sanskrit Academy's Bhoj Award for Bāla rāmāyaṇam and the Vachaspati Award by the K. K. Birla Foundation for Sāketa saurabham.

Bishen

The Bisen Suryavanshi Rajputs found in the Gangetic plains of India in the province of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar

Buxar district

Substantial proportion of trade activities are with well connected towns and cities in Uttar Pradesh such as Varanasi, Ballia and Ghazipur.

Chandan Mitra

In 1984 he was awarded a Radical Islam and the Nuclear Bom degree at Oxford University, where he was a member of Magdalen College, for the thesis "Political mobilisation and the nationalism movement in India – a study of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, 1936-1942" written under supervision of the noted Indian historian Dr Tapan Raychaudhuri.

Chaudhary Narain Singh

His son Sanjay Singh Chauhan is member of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and a member of Parliament representing Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh state in the 15th Lok Sabha

Devaria

Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, a town in Uttar Pradesh, India also called Devaria

Deoria district, a district of Uttar Pradesh, India also called Devaria

Dildarnagar Fatehpur Bazar

The city of Dildarnagar is located in the border of uttar pradesh India, in the eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, along the left is bank of the karamnasa river.Its neighbouring cities are Varanasi, Jaunpur, Buxar in Bihar, Ballia, Mau, Chandauli and Azamgarh.

Faizabad Airport

Union Civil aviation minister Ajit Singh is seeking permission from Uttar Pradesh government to hand over the airport to AAI so that scheduled carrier planes could be operable at Faizabad airport.

Gangwar

This clan served as soldiers and sardars in the army of Shiva Ji and other Maratha Sardars and had taken part in the Maratha missions of Rohilkhand to crush the Rohilla Pathans before and after the 3rd war of Panipat This clan was the part of Maratha mission 1771 AD and later settled around the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh hence the surname seems of Maratha origin.

Hamirpur

Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh, the administrative headquarters of Hamirpur District, Uttar Pradesh

Hata

Hata, India, a town in Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India

Hindustan Cables

The company has grown to make a broader line of products in locations in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), Naini, Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh) as well as the original plant in Rupnarainpur.

Kapilavastu

However, Sealings bearing the legend Kapilavastu have been found from Piprahwa–a village in district Siddharthnagar of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Kursath

Kursath, Unnao, town in Unnao district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

Kursath, Hardoi, town in Hardoi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

Lakhimpur

Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh, a city and a municipal board in Lakhimpur Kheri district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

Liberhan Commission

Appointed by former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao two weeks after the demolition on 6 December 1992, to ward off criticism against his government for having failed to protect the mosque, the commission in August 2005 finished hearing its last witness Kalyan Singh – who was Uttar Pradesh chief minister at the time of the demolition and was dismissed soon after.

Mangarhi

Amichand Singh's son, Sunil Singh, was nominated by the Anup Pandey (Chairman, Student Lok Dal) for the position of State Secretary of Uttar Pradeh's student union (for the term 2001-2006).

Music of Uttar Pradesh

During the eras of Guptas and Harsh Vardhans, Uttar Pradesh was a major center for musical innovation.

Muslims of Uttar Pradesh

Famous Muslims from Uttar Pradesh include the famous writer and poet Javed Akhtar, actress Shabana Azami, Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Maolana Dr. Kalbe Sadiq Vice President of Muslim Personal Law Board, actor and director Muzaffar Ali, Journalist Saeed Naqvi, Persian Scholar Dr. Naiyer Masud Rizvi, Governor Syed Sibtey Razi, historian Irfan Habib, politician Salman Khursheed and cricketer Mohammad Kaif.

Noorpur

Noorpur, Uttar Pradesh, a city and a municipal board in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pushka

A taluka in the Barabanki district of Northern India, in the Awadh region of the State of Uttar Pradesh

Ram Manohar Lohia

Lohia was born in a village Akbarpur in Ambedkar Nagar district then Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, in India to Hira Lal, a nationalist and Chanda,a teacher.

Sachan

This clan served as mercenaries in the army of Shiva Ji and other Maratha Sardars and had taken part in the Maratha missions of Rohilkhand to crush the Rohilla Pathans before and after the 3rd war of Panipat This clan was the part of Maratha mission 1771 AD and later settled around the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh hence the surname seems of Maratha origin.

Saeeda Faiz

Mrs. Saeeda Faiz acquired her higher education in Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh and obtained a degree of M.A., B.T. after which she worked as a teacher in Government Girls' School, Basti.

Saifi

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

Salman Akhtar

He was born into a Muslim family in Khairabad, Uttar Pradesh to Jan Nisar Akhtar, a Bollywood film songwriter and Urdu poet, and singer Safia Akhtar, a teacher and writer.

Sharada

Sharda River, downstream renaming mainly in Uttar Pradesh of (Maha)Kali River on Nepal's western border with Uttarakhand, India.

Shikarpur

Shikarpur, Bulandshahr, city and municipal board in Uttar Pradesh, India

Shivmangal Singh Suman

Suman worked as the Vice Chancellor of Vikram University (Ujjain) during 1968-78; the Vice-President of Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan, Lucknow; Press & Cultural Attache, Indian Embassy, Kathmandu (Nepal) during 1956-61; and the President, Association of Indian Universities (New Delhi) during 1977-78.

Sunil Kumar Verma

Dr. Sunil Kumar Verma was born in a small village of Uttar Pradesh and did his schooling in Tikri, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Suresh Raina

Raina decided to play cricket in 2000, and moved from his city Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh (near New Delhi) to Lucknow, to attend the specialist government Sports College.

Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute

Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute (earlier known as Government Central Textile Institute), Kanpur is a premier textile institute of North India.

William H. Wiser

It later became India's Block Development Program at Marehra, Etah district, Uttar Pradesh.

Yugal Bihar Saket Dham Mandir

The Yugal Bihar Saket Dham Mandir is a 200-year-old temple in Ayodhya Uttar Pradesh, India near the Sarayu River.


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