Firozabad distrcit General information
Firozabad district is one of the western districts of Uttar Pradesh state in India. Firozabad town is the district headquarters. Firozabad district is a part of Agra division. Its total population is 836,808.
History
The ancient name of this town was Chandwar nager. The name of Firozabad was given in the regime of Akbar by Firoz Shah Mansab Dar in 1566. They say that Raja Todarmal was passing through this town, pilgrimage to Gaya [disambiguation needed]. He was looted by robbers. At his request, Akbar sent his Mansab Dar Firoz Shah here. He landed near or about Datauji, Rasoolpur, Mohammadpur Gajmalpur, Sukhmalpur Nizamabad, Prempur Raipura. The tomb of Firoz Shah and ruins of Katra Pathanan are the evidences of this fact.
Mr. Peter, who was the businessman, related to East India Company visited on 9 August 1632 and found the town in good condition. It is written in the gazetteer of Agra and Mathura in 1596 Firozabad was upgraded in a Pargana . Firozabad was bestowed to Nabab Sadulla as jagir, in the regime of Shahjahan. Jahangir ruled since 1605 to 1627. Etawah, Budaun, Mainpuri, Firozabad were under first class mansabdar of emperor Farrukhsiar.
Bajirao peshwa looted Firozabad and Etmadpur in 1737 in the regime of Mohammad Shah. Jats of Mahawan attacked Faujdar Hakim Kajim at Firozabad and killed him in 9 May 1739. Jats ruled Firozabad for 30 years.
Gajuddin, Hidayat Vaksh son of Alamgir second his nephew and Mirza baba the son in law, came to Firozabad .Mirza Nabab Khan stayed here till 1782. In the end of 18th century Firozabad was ruled by Himmat Bahadur Gusain with cooperation of Marathas.
The French Army Chief of Marathas D. Wayan, established an ordnance factory in November 1794. Mr. Thomas Traving also mentioned this fact in his book Travels in India.
Marathas appointed his subadar Lakwadads here who made a fort near old tehsil, knows at present garie.
General Lek and General Vellajally attacked Firozabad in 1802. In the beginning of British regime Firozabad was in Etawah district. But after sometime it was attached to Aligarh district. When Sadabad was created a new district in 1832, Firozabad was attached to it. Later on 1833 Firozabad was finally attached to Agra. In 1847 the business of lakh was flourishing at Firozabad.
1857, freedom–fighting, Chauhans of Mainpuri, Jamidar of Chandwar, with local Malahs, look active parts in it. Famous Urdu poet Munir Shikohabadi too was sentenced to Kala pani by East India Company government.
People of this city took part in "Khilafat Movement","Quit India Movement" and "Dandi March" and went to the jail during national movements.
In 1929 Mahatma Gandhi, in 1935 Semant Gandhi in 1937 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and in 1940 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose visited Firozabad.
Firozabad district was established on February 2, 1989 by an executive order passed by the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Location
* The District is connected by rail and bus to major cities. The nearest Airport is Agra.
* Longitude is 78 degree of east and latitude is 27 degree of north. The height is above mean sea level 164.467 meter .
The boundaries of district touch Etawah district in north and Mainpuri and Etawah in east. The Yamuna river makes its southern boundary. The area of district is about 0.8% of total area of U.P. and population is 1.1% of total population of U.P. Approximately 73.6% population is living in rural area. It has severe winter and summer seasons. Mostly district is plane and its slope is from north west to south.
Temple
There were many jain temples in firozabad.There was a world famous jain temple which is known as chadamilal jain temple, shri shuparshnath jain mandir in gher khokal (Mahaveer Chowk) and chandprabhu jain mandir in khidki. These two temples of gherkhokal and khidki is approx 250-300 years old. The old name of chandwar will be taken from the idol of chandprabhu which made in the time of prithviraj chauhan.Mohd. Gauri attacked 19 times in chandwar a holy jain place, situated 6 km from Firozabad. On every 2 October there was a fair held in chandwar.
Transport
In view of transportation Firozabad is very rich because National Highway 2 which links Delhi & Kolkata passes from here & it is connected on the railway track between Delhi and Kolkata which is very busy railway root.