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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 827 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAJIPUR  , a

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town of
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British
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India, in the
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Muzaffarpur
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district of
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Bengal, on the
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Gandak, just above its confluence with the
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Ganges opposite
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Patna . Pop . (
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root), 21,398 . Hajipur figures conspicuously in the
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history of the struggles between
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Akbar and his rebellious Afghan
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governors of Bengal, being twice besieged and captured by the imperial troops, in 1572 and 1574• Within the limits of the old fort is a small
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stone
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mosque, very
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plain, but of
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peculiar
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architecture, and attributed to Haji Ilyas, its traditional founder (c . 1350) . Its command of
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water
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traffic in three directions makes the town a
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place of considerable commercial importance . Hajipur has a station on the
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main
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line of the Bengal and
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North-western railway .

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