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1740 establishments in India
History of Varanasi
Princely states of Uttar Pradesh
States and territories established in 1740

Architecture

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Azamgarh

Azamgarh is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Ballia district

Ballia district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Banaras Hindu University (BHU) (IAST: kāśī hindū viśvavidyālaya IPA: /kaːʃiː hɪnd̪uː ʋɪʃwəʋid̪jaːləj/) is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916. The university incorporated the Central Hindu College, founded by Indian Home Rule-leaguer and Theosophist, Annie Besant in 1898.

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Bhadohi district

Bhadohi district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.

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Bhojpuri language

Bhojpuri (IPA:; Devanagari:, Kaithi) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bhojpur-Purvanchal region of India and the Terai region of Nepal and.

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Bhumihar

Bhumihar, also locally called Bhuinhar and Babhan, is a Hindu caste mainly found in Bihar (including the Mithila region), the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, and Nepal.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Chakia, Uttar Pradesh

Chakia (sometimes written as Chakiya) is a small town (nagar panchayat) and the sub-divisional headquarters of Chakia Tehsil in the District of Chandauli of Varanasi Division in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Chandauli

Chandauli is a town and a nagar panchayat in Chandauli district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Chandauli district

Chandauli district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Chandauli town is the district headquarters.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Chunar

Chunar is a city located in Mirzapur district of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Dynasty

A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,Oxford English Dictionary, "dynasty, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Gangapur, Varanasi

Gangapur is a town and a nagar panchayat in Varanasi district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Ganges

The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Ghazipur district

Ghazipur district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.

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Gorakhpur district

Gorakhpur district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Gyanpur

Gyanpur is a town and a nagar panchayat in Bhadohi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian independence movement

The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.

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Ishwari Prasad Narayan Singh

His Highness Maharaja Bahadur Sri Sir Ishwari Prasad Narayan Singh, GCSI (1822 – 13 June 1889) was the Maharaja of Benares.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Jagir

A jagir (جاگیر|translit.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Jaunpur district

Jaunpur district is a district in the Varanasi Division of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh

Jaunpur is a city and a municipal board in Jaunpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century.

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List of emperors of the Mughal Empire

The emperors of the Mughal Empire, styled the Emperors of Hindustan, who were all members of the Timurid dynasty (House of Babur), ruled over the empire from its inception in 1526 to its dissolution in 1857.

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Maharaja Aditya Narayan Singh

Maharaja Aditya Narayan Singh (17 November 1874 – 4 April 1939) was the Maharaja of Benares (1931–1939). Benares Estate and Maharaja Aditya Narayan Singh are history of Varanasi.

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Maharaja Balwant Singh of Benares

Balwant Singh Sahib Bahadur, also known as Maharaja Balwant Singh (1711–1770), was the ruler of Benares State in northern India.

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Maharaja Chait Singh

Rafa'at wa Awal-i-Martabat Maharaja Shri Chet Singh Sahib Bahadur (died 29 March 1810), commonly known as Raja Chet Singh, a Bhumihar Brahmin king from the Narayan dynasty, was 3 rd ruler of Kingdom of Benaras in northern India.

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Maharaja Mahip Narayan Singh

Maharaja Mahip Narayan Singh Saheb Bahadur succeeded the throne of Benares on 14 September 1781. Benares Estate and Maharaja Mahip Narayan Singh are history of Varanasi.

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Maharaja Prabhu Narayan Singh

Prabhu Narayan Singh (26 November 1855 – 4 August 1931) was ruler of the Benares State (Royal House of Benares), an Indian princely state, from 1889 to 1931. Benares Estate and Maharaja Prabhu Narayan Singh are history of Varanasi.

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Maharaja Udit Narayan Singh

Maharaja Udit Narayan Singh was the eldest surviving son of Maharaj Mahip Narayan Singh, Udit Narayan Singh Sahib Bahadur (1770 – 4 April 1835, r. 12 September 1795 – 4 April 1835) became the new king of Benares. Benares Estate and Maharaja Udit Narayan Singh are history of Varanasi.

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Maratha Confederacy

The Maratha Confederacy, also referred to as the Maratha Empire, was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent.

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Mirzapur

Mirzapur is a city in Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Mirzapur district

Mirzapur district is one of the 75 districts in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Mughal architecture

Mughal architecture is the type of Indo-Islamic architecture developed by the Mughals in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries throughout the ever-changing extent of their empire in the Indian subcontinent.

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Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.

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Muhammad Shah

Mirza Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad Shah (born Roshan Akhtar; 7 August 1702 – 26 April 1748) was the thirteenth Mughal emperor from 1719 to 1748.

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Narayan dynasty

The Narayan dynasty was the ruling family of Benares. Benares Estate and Narayan dynasty are 1948 disestablishments in India and history of Varanasi.

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Nawab

Nawab (Balochi, Pashto: نواب; نواب; নবাব/নওয়াব; नवाब; Punjabi: ਨਵਾਬ; Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab, is a royal title indicating a sovereign ruler, often of a South Asian state, in many ways comparable to the western title of Prince.

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Nawab of Awadh

The Nawab of Awadh or Nawab of Oudh was the title of the rulers of Kingdom of Awadh (anglicised as Oudh) in northern India during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Oudh State

The Oudh State (also Kingdom of Awadh, Kingdom of Oudh, Awadh Subah, Oudh Subah or Awadh State) was a Mughal subah, then an independent kingdom, and lastly a princely state in the Awadh region of North India until its annexation by the British in 1856.

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Parvati

Parvati (पार्वती), also known as Uma (उमा) and Gauri (गौरी), is the Hindu goddess of power, energy, nourishment, harmony, love, beauty, devotion, and motherhood.

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Political integration of India

Before India gained independence in 1947, India (also called the Indian Empire) was divided into two sets of territories, one under direct British rule (British India), and the other consisting of princely states under the suzerainty of the British Crown, with control over their internal affairs remaining in the hands of their hereditary rulers.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Puranas

Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.

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Purenw

Purenw or Pureon is a large village located in Kerakat Tehsil of Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India with total 765 families residing.

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Raja

Raja (from, IAST) is a royal Sanskrit title that was historically used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

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Rajputana

Rājputana, meaning Land of the Rajputs, was a region in the Indian subcontinent that included mainly the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan, as well as parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, and some adjoining areas of Sindh in modern-day southern Pakistan.

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Rama

Rama is a major deity in Hinduism.

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Ramayana

The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.

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Ramcharitmanas

Ramcharitmanas (rāmacaritamānasa), is an epic poem in the Awadhi language, composed by the 16th-century Indian bhakti poet Tulsidas (c. 1511–1623).

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Ramlila

Ramlila (literally 'Rama's lila or play') is any dramatic folk re-enactment of the life of Rama according to the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana or secondary literature based on it such as the Ramcharitmanas.

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Ramnagar Fort

The Ramnagar Fort is a fortification in Ramnagar, Varanasi, India.

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Ramnagar, Varanasi

Ramnagar is a city, just outside Varanasi city and a municipal board in Varanasi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Ravana

Ravana was an ancient mythological king of the island of Lanka, and the chief antagonist in the Hindu epic Ramayana.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Shiva

Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.

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Sonbhadra district

Sonbhadra (also known as Sonebhadra) or Sonanchal is the second largest district by area of Uttar Pradesh after Lakhimpur Kheri.

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State religion

A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.

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The Imperial Gazetteer of India

The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Tulsidas

Rambola Dubey (11 August 1511 – 30 July 1623pp. 23–34.), known as Tulsidas, was a Vaishnava (Ramanandi) Hindu saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama.

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United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 22 March 1902 to 1937; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces (UP), by which the province had been commonly known, and by which name it was also a province of independent India until 1950.

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Urdu

Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.

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Varanasi

Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. Benares Estate and Varanasi are princely states of Uttar Pradesh.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benares_Estate

Also known as Banaras State, Benaras State, Benares State, Maharaja of Kasi.

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Benares Estate, the Glossary

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See also

1740 establishments in India

History of Varanasi

Princely states of Uttar Pradesh

States and territories established in 1740

References