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HISTORY OF

BULANDSHAHRWritten By-

Vibhu Mittal

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INTRODUCTION

Bulandshahr is a city and a municipal board in

Bulandshahr district in the state of Uttar Pradesh,

India. It is the administrative headquarters of

Bulandshahr District. According to Government ofIndia, the district Bulendshahr is one of the Minority

Concentrated District in India on the basis of the

2001 census data on population, socio-economic

indicators and basic amenities indicators.

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History

The history of Bulandshahr begins even before 1200 BCE. Thisregion is close to the capital of the Pandavas - Indraprasatha andHastinapur. After the decline of Hastinapur, Ahar, which is situatedin the north-east of Bulandshahr District, became an important placefor the Pandavas. Later the king Parma made a fort in this part of theregion and a king named Ahibaran laid the foundation of a tower

called Baran (sahar). Since it was perched on a highland it came tobe known as "high city", which translates as Bulandshahr in Persianlanguage. King Ahivarn or Ahibaran was a Kshatriya and aSuryavanshi (lineage of the Sun). He was the 21st descendant ofSamrath (Emperor) Mandhata, the ruler of Ayodhya. As perMahalakshmi Vrat Katha, it is under Emperor Mandhata lineage that

at one stage son of King Vallabh, Agrasen was born and at anotherstage son of King Parmaal, Ahivarn was born; both of whom furtherstarted their own clans: Agrawal (or Agarwal) and Varnwal (orBarnwal).

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As per an old treatise on Indian Caste system, 'Jati Bhaskar', it is

understood that Samrath Mandhata had two sons, Gunadhi and

Mohan. King Parmaal was the descendant of King Gunadhi while

King Vallabh was the descendant of King Mohan. In 1192 CE when Muhammad Ghauri conquered parts of India, his

Senapati (Military commander) Qutubbudin surrounded Fort Barn

and, with the help of traitors, was able to kill King Chandrasen Dor

and in the process take control of the Barn kingdom.

After the fall of Barn-sahar, the Baranwal community lost leadershipand direction and in the process scattered to different parts of India,

mostly to the Gangetic plains of India, and started living under the

various family names of Lala, Modi, Goyal, Bakshi, Choudhary,

Patwari, Gupta's, Parsariya, Simriya, Nagar, Arya, Shah.

At present the Barnwal population is around half a million. They are

mostly spread in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal

along with a sprinkled presence in Rajasthan, MP and Maharastra

and the neighboring Kingdom of Nepal. Some of them have spread

globally and settled down in UK and USA.

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