Gangoh
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Gangoh is a town and a municipal board in Saharanpur district
in the state of Uttar Pradesh
, India
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, Gangoh had a population of 53,947. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Gangoh has an average literacy rate of 60%, slightly higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 77%, and female literacy is 42%. In Gangoh, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age. The people are predominantly Muslim
s, Gurjars and Jats. There are 52 Villages of Batar clan of Gurjars near Gangoh.
Gangoh has good medical facilities and hospital. If somebody needs little better facility then they can head towards Saharanpur which is the district of Gangoh. There are lot of good private hospitals like Saksham and Tarawati Hospital.
Saharanpur District
Saharanpur district is the northernmost of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state, India. Bordering the states of Haryana and Uttarakhand, and close to the foothills of Shivalik range, it lies in the northern part of the Doab region...
in the state of Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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Geography
Gangoh is located at 29.77°N 77.25°E. It has an average elevation of 292 metres (926 feet).Demographics
India censusCensus
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
, Gangoh had a population of 53,947. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Gangoh has an average literacy rate of 60%, slightly higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 77%, and female literacy is 42%. In Gangoh, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age. The people are predominantly Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
s, Gurjars and Jats. There are 52 Villages of Batar clan of Gurjars near Gangoh.
History
According to the 1911 British publication "The Imperial Gazetteer of India":The town [Gangoh] consists of an old and new quarter, the former founded by a legendary hero. Raja GangRaja GangRaja Gang was a legendary hero in the area now known as Uttar Pradesh, India, and claimed founder of the town of Gangoh, which bears his name....
, from whom its name is derived, and the latter by the famous saint Shaikh Abdul Kuddus, who gives his title to the western suburb, where his mausoleum stands, built by HumayunHumayunNasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530–1540 and again from 1555–1556. Like his father, Babur, he lost his kingdom early, but with Persian aid, he eventually regained an even larger one...
in 1537. During the Mutiny Gangoh was frequently threatened by the rebel Gurjars (Gujjars) under the self-styled Raja FathuaRaja FathuaRaja Fathua was a leader of a group of rebel Gujjars near the Indian town of Gangoh during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Raja Fathua's group was defeated by H. D. Robertson and Lieutenant Boisragon towards the end of June 1857....
; but Mr. H. D. Robertson and Lieutenant Boisragon attacked and utterly defeated them towards the end of June, 1857. There are three old mosques, two of which were built by Akbar and Jahangir, besides a school and a dispensary. The town is liable to be flooded from a large swamp south of the site, but a scheme has been prepared to drain this. The streets are paved and most of them have brickwork drains. Gangoh is administered under Act XX of 1856, the income raised being about Rs. 3,000 a year. It is the cleanest and best kept of all the towns under Act XX in the District.
Facilities
Currently Gangoh has good medical and education facilities. There is one medical college and one engineering college (Shobhit Institute of Engineering and Technology). This college has produced lot of engineers and who have been working with some reputed brands. Gangoh has good public transportation facilities till late night but not so safe to travel late night. This is a very dangerous area in night to travel.Gangoh has good medical facilities and hospital. If somebody needs little better facility then they can head towards Saharanpur which is the district of Gangoh. There are lot of good private hospitals like Saksham and Tarawati Hospital.
