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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 782 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KHURJA , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

India, in the See also:

BULANDSHAHR

Bulandshahr See also:

DISTRICT

district of the See also:

UNITED

United Provinces, 27 M . N.W. of See also:

ALIGARH

Aligarh, near the See also:

main 1 See also:

SIR

Sir H . See also:

Yule, The See also:

BOOK

Book of See also:

SER

Ser Marco See also:

Polo, bk. i. ch. See also:

XXXVI

xxxvi . (3rd ed., See also:

LONDON

London, 1903) . See also:

LINE

line of the See also:

East See also:

INDIAN

Indian railway . Pop . (1901), 29,277 . It is an important centre of See also:

trade in See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, See also:

INDIGO (earlier indico, from Lat. indicum, the Indian sub-stance or dye; the Sans. name was niti, from nila, dark blue, and this through Arab. al-nil, annil, gives " aniline ")

indigo, See also:

SUGAR

sugar and ghi, and has See also:

cotton gins and presses and a manufacture of pottery . Jain traders See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form a large and wealthy class; and the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

BUILDING

building in the town is a See also:

MODERN

modern Jain See also:

temple, a See also:

FINE

fine domed structure richly carved and ornamented in See also:

gold and See also:

COLOURS, MILITARY

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it contains good information.there is no mention of ceramic industry which provides livelihood to many.this may have developed since the pulication of the entry in the encycopedia.there however is ommision of demography.there are many muslims living in india.people are known by their profession/callingssuch as butchers, tellis.rawals.doms etcetra.there is a class of muslims who call themseves pathans.that isbelonging to afghanistan and are prouud of it.they call themselves by their clans.names such as khalis, ghilzais,tareens. kheshgis etcetra.after partition of india in 1947 many migrated to the new country pakistan---london,us.germanyand elsewhere. there is no authentic information about these people.the writer of theabove lines is ghilzai and would appreciate to know about his origin.

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