Najibabad
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cached 2001h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Sahanpur
- Region
- Uttar Pradesh
- Country
- India
- Population
- 84,006
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Najibabad
- Settlement.nickname
- Najibnagar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- A Mosque and a shrine, Najibabad, 1814-15.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A mosque and a shrine in its courtyard
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Uttar Pradesh#India3
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Uttar Pradesh
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bijnor
- Settlement.founder
- Najib-ud-Daulah
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_rank
- 271
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 315
- Settlement.population_total
- 88,535
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Bijnor district
- Area
- 5.06
- Elevation
- 295
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Dialing code
- 1341
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- Commons category
- Najibabad
- postal code
- 246763
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- 1458
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Climate
- People's representative
- Forts and monuments
- Industries
- Demographics
- Religion
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Najibabad is a town in the Bijnor district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, located near the city of Bijnor. It is a major industrial centre and has national transport links via rail and roadways such as NH 119 and NH 74.
==History== Nawab Najib-ud-Daula, also known as Najib Khan Yousafzai, was a noted Rohilla Muslim warrior and serviceman of both the Mughal Empire and the Durrani Empire in 18th century Rohilkhand. In 1751, he founded the town of Najibabad in Bijnor district, India, after he received the title, "Najib-ud-Daula" from Mughal Emperor Alalmgir III. From 1757 to 1770 he was also the governor of Saharanpur, ruling over Dehradun. Many architectural relics of the period of Rohilla he oversaw remain in Najibabad, which he founded at the height of his career as a Mughal minister. He had succeeded Safdarjung as Grand Wazir of the Mughal Empire and was a devoted serviceman of the Mughal Emperor Alamgir II.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Najibabad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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