Moradabad

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Moradabad pronunciation (help·info) ( Urdu: مراداباد , Hindi: मुरादाबाद ) is a city in Uttar Pradesh state of India. It was established in 1600 by prince Murad, the son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan; as a result the city came to known as Moradabad. It is the administrative headquarters of Moradabad District.

A decorative brass paperweight, left, along with zinc and copper samples.

Moradabad is situated at a distance of 167 km (104 miles) from the national capital, New Delhi, at the bank of River Ram Ganga (a tributary to the great Ganges). The city is famous for its huge export of brass handicrafts to North America Europe and all over the world, and is also thus called "Brass City" or Peetal Nagri (in the local language). It has close to one million citizens of various ethnicities and religions.

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Historically, a city and district of British India, in the Bareilly division of the United Provinces. The city is on the right bank of the river Ramganga, 655 ft. above sea-level, and has a station on the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway, 868 miles from Calcutta. Pop. (1901), 75,128. It was founded in 1625 by Rustam Khan, who built the fort which overhangs the river bank, and the fine Jama Masjid or great mosque (1631). The town forms a large centre of trade in country produce. It has a special industry in ornamental brassware, sometimes plated with lac or tin, which is then engraved. Cotton weaving and printing is also carried on.

The District Of Moradabad lies east of the Ganges and west of the native state of Rampur. Area, 2285 sq. m. It lies within the great Gangetic plain, and is demarcated into three subdivisions by the rivers Ramganga and Sot. The eastern tract consists of a submontane country, with an elevation slightly greater than the plain below, and is traversed by numerous streams descending from the Himalayas. The central portion consists of a level central plain descending at each end into the valleys of the Ramganga and Sot. The western section has a gentle slope towards the Ganges, with a rapid dip into the lowlands a few miles from the bank of the great river. In addition to Moradabad the principal towns are Amroha, Sambhal (39,715) and Chandausi (25,711).

For the early history of Moradabad see Bareilly. It passed into the possession of the British in 1801. The population in 1901 was 1,191,993. Muslims are more numerous than in any other district of the province, forming more than one-third of the total population. The principal crops are wheat, rice, millet, pulse, sugar-cane and cotton. The main line of the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway traverses the district from south to north, with branches towards Aligarh and Rampur. A third branch from Moradabad city towards Delhi crosses the Ganges at Garhmukhteshwar by a bridge of eleven spans of 200 ft. each.

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. Today Moradabad is famous for its handicraft work and it is the one of the largest foreign money generated city of uttar pradesh.

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Lajpat Nagar.	Eidgah.	Eidgah Road.	Eidgah Road.
Eidgah Road.	Moradabad Bus Station.	Station Road.	Moradabad Railway Station.
Sir Sayyad Nagar.	View from bridge.	Jigar Dwar.