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LALITPUR

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 95 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LALITPUR  , a

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town of
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British India, in
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Jhansi
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district,
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United Provinces . Pop . (19o1) 11,56o . It has a station on the
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Great
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Indian Peninsula railway, and a large trade in oil-seeds, hides and ghi . It contains several beautiful
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Hindu and Jain temples . It was formerly the headquarters of a district of the same name, which was incorporated with that of Jhansi in 1891 . The Bundela chiefs of Lalitpur were among those who most eagerly joined the Mutiny, and it was only after a severe struggle that the district was pacified .

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