MORADABAD  , a

city and district of British India, in the Bareilly division of the United Provinces . The city is on the right bank of the river Ramganga, 655 ft. above sea-level, and has a station on the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway, 868 miles from Calcutta . Pop . (1901), 75,128 . It was founded in 1625 by Rustam Khan, who built the fort which overhangs the river bank, and the fine Jama Masjid or great mosque (1631) . The town forms a large centre of trade in country produce . It has a special industry in ornamental brassware, sometimes plated with lac or tin, which is then engraved . Cotton weaving and printing is also carried on . The DISTRICT of MORADABAD lies east of the Ganges and west of the native state of Rampur . Area, 2285 sq. m . It lies within the great Gangetic plain, and is demarcated into three sub-divisions by the rivers Ramganga and Sot . The eastern tract consists of a submontane country, with an elevation slightly greater than the plain below, and is traversed by numerous streams descending from the Himalayas .

The central portion consists of a level central plain descending at each end into the valleys of the Ramganga and Sot . The western

section has a gentle slope towards the Ganges, with a rapid dip into the lowlands a few miles .from the bank of the great river . In addition to Moradabad the principal towns are Amroha (q.v.), Sambhal (39,715) and Chaudansi (25,711) . For the early history of Moradabad see BAREILLY . It passed into the possession of the British in 1801 . The population in 1901 was 1,191,993, showing an increase of 1.x % in the decade . Mahommedans are more numerous than in any other district of the province, forming more than one-third of the total . The principal crops are wheat, rice, millet, pulse, sugar-cane and cotton . The main line of the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway traverses the district from south to north, with branches towards Aligarh and Rampur . A third branch from Moradabad city towards Delhi crosses the Ganges at Garhmukhteshwar by a bridge of eleven spans of 200 ft. each .