Bareilly

Bareilly is a city in Uttar Pradesh in India. Home to some 1 million people, Bareilly ranks seventh-largest metropolis in Uttar Pradesh. It is a crowded, hectic city where pedestrians compete with cars and rickshaws on what are quite narrow and congested streets.

Understand


Bareilly lies in the upper Ganges plain, roughly 70 km north of the river and within sight of the outer foothills of the Central Himalaya. It is an important railway and transportation hub, about half-way between Delhi and Lucknow, well connected to most of the major cities in India by rail, and the western part of Nepal by road.

According to tradition the city was founded in 1537 by two brothers, Bans Deo and Barel Deo. They built a fort and named it Jagatpur, after their father, at that time the governor of the region. The term is still used to refer to a neighborhood which is now part of the old city. A small town developed around the fort. During the Moghul period Mirzai Mashid and Jama Mashid were built along with a new fort. After Aurangzeb's death in 1707, Afgan clans, known as Rohillas, consolidated their positions in the area and then after the region became known as Rohilkhand. In 1774 the region fell into the hands of the nawab of Awad.

Later the area was ceded to the East India Company and Bareilly became the headquarters of the district. Administrative buildings were built in the southern suburb of the town and in 1811 Bareilly Cantonment was established. During the mutiny of sepoys in 1857 Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla formed his own government in Rohilkhand. One year later the rebellion failed and the town was recaptured by the British Army. During the British Rule railways were constructed to link the city to Delhi and Lucknow. Before World War II, various factories were established in Bareilly and the city's economic growth continued at a high rate after independence.

Get in
Bareilly City is equidistant from the state capital Lucknow & National Capital Delhi.

By train
Six railway stations serve the city. The main station is lying on the Delhi-Kolkata line. It's a huge and busy station with regular trains from other major cities of the country.
 * Ala Hazrat Express (14312) leaves Bhuj at 12:25PM and reach Bareilly at 8:30PM next day.
 * Triveni Express (Queen of Sonbhadra) from Shaktinagar/Singrauli to Bareily via Chopan, Mirzapur, Allahabad Jn., Lucknow

By bus
Bareilly has regular buses from Agra, Delhi Jaipur Lucknow, Mathura, and Varanasi. is the terminus for the State owned buses.

Hindu temples

 * Famous Temples Santoshi Mata Ka Mandir: Near Madhinath, Bareilly (Old Temples). This is the Rural Area.
 * Shiv Mandir Madhinath Bareilly City Railway Station. (Old Temples). This is the Rural Area.
 * Muni Mandir Nekpur: This is Radha Krishna Mandir. (Old Temples ) OBC almost here. This is the Rural Area.
 * Famous Temples in Nekpur: Near Lalita Devi Mandir Nekpur Bareilly. (Old Temples) OBC almost here. This is the Rural Area.

Go next
Nepal - The -Mahendrenagar border crossing in the extreme west of Nepal, is the one closest to Bareilly (about 115 km.)