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Khurja

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a town of British India, in the Bulandshahr district of the United Provinces, 27 m. N.W. of Aligarh, near the main 1 Sir H. Yule, The Book of Ser Marco Polo, bk. i. ch. xxxvi. (3rd ed., London, 1903).

line of the East Indian railway. Pop. (1901), 29,277. It is an important centre of trade in grain, indigo, sugar and ghi, and has cotton gins and presses and a manufacture of pottery. Jain traders form a large and wealthy class; and the principal building in the town is a modern Jain temple, a fine domed structure richly carved and ornamented in gold and colours.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Khurja'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​k/khurja.html. 1910.
 
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