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The Imperial Gazetteer of India Bareilly to Berasia

1908

In order to provide a remedy for the heavy loss caused to the Government of India in respect of its gold payments to be made in England and also to relieve foreign trade and finance from the inconvenience due to constant and unforeseen fluctuations in.exchange it was resolved in 1893 to close the mints to the free coinage of silver and thus force up the value of the rupee by restricting the ci [...] Under the various dynasties which preceded the Mughal empire the history of Katehr consists of the common events which make up the annals of that period : constant attempts at independence on the part of the district governors followed by barbarous suppression on the part of the central authority. [...] The place fell with the surounding country into the possession of the Nawab of Oudh after the defeat of the Rohillas by the combined British and Oudh forces in 1774 and passed to the British by cession in r8o 1 when it became the heaquarters of a District and of a provincial court. [...] Bareilly is the head-quarters of the Commisioner of the Division and of the Executive Engineers of the Rohilkhand Canals and Rohilkhand division (Roads and Buildings). [...] The rainfall is heaviest in the upper part of the system which has necessitated a special system of irrigation in Gurdaspur District and in the portion of Amritsar District north of the North-Western Railway on the Kasiir and Sobraon branches.
government politics public policy
Pages
434
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
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Cover
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Imperial Gazetteer of India Volume VII
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Backmatter
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