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  Rampur - LoveToKnow 1911
During the Mutiny of 1857 the nawab of Rampur rendered important services to the British, for which he received a grant of land assessed at £¦000 in perpetuity, besides other honours.
The town of Rampur is on the left bank of the river Kosila, 620 ft. above the sea, with a railway station 39 m.
There are two other towns in India called Rampur, one of which, the capital of the state of Bashahr in the Punjab, has given its name to the fine woollen shawls, widely known as Rampur chadars.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Rampur   (319 words)

  
  Rampur - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Rampur is a former princely state of India ruled by a Muslim Nawab.
The Royal family of Rampur (the Nawabs) did not rise in revolt during the War of Independence of 1857 and this enabled it to continue to play a role in the social, political and culture life of South Asia in general and the Muslims of South Asia in particular.
The estate of Rampur was established by Nawab Faizulla Khan on 7th October, 1774 in the presence of British Commander Colonel Champion.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Rampur   (514 words)

  
 Rampur
Rampur is a district located in Uttar Pradesh.
In the medieval age Rampur was under the rulers of Delhi.
The main industries of Rampur are wine making, sugar processing, weaving textiles and manufacturing agricultural implements.
www.mapsofindia.com /maps/uttarpradesh/districts/rampur.htm   (143 words)

  
 rampur2
1748 - 1793 Nawab Faizu'llah 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Mustaid Jang, Nawab of Rampur.
1793 Nawab Muhammad 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Rampur.
1793 - 1794 'Ali Jah, Amir ul-Umara, Nasir ul-Mulk, Mukhlis ud-Daula, Nawab Haji Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bahadur, Mustaid Jang, Nawab of Rampur.
www.4dw.net /royalark/India/rampur2.htm   (1122 words)

  
 Animal genetic resources information / Bulletin d'information sur les ressources génétiques animales / Boletín de ...
Rampur Bushair is an important dual-purpose (meat and wool) sheep in the north temperate Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh state (India).
Rampur Bushair is an important dual-purpose (meat and wool) breed of sheep in the north temperate Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh state (India).
The Rampur Bushair sheep population in Shimla Kinnaur and Spiti regions was 67 161 27 413 and 4 000 respectively.
www.fao.org /docrep/008/a0070t/a0070t09.htm   (2366 words)

  
 Rampur Hound
My first instinct was to think the Rampur must have been created after the Englishmen came to India and brought their Greyhounds with them.
The Rampur was actually threatened by the mixings with Greyhounds that were done.
For some reason the Rampur has fallen into oblivion during the last decades, you rarely see them mentioned in dog books of today, but you will find them in the dog books of yesterday.
home.swipnet.se /starcastle/star/rare/ramp/ramp.html   (309 words)

  
 Residents of Rampur in Shimla celebrate Phag festival
Rampur (Himachal Pradesh), March 15: Ahead of upcoming New Year (Chaitra-Vaishakh) as per Hindu alamanc, residents of Rampur in Shimla District of Himachal Pradesh marked Phag festival here.
And, Rampur, which has also been hosting the centuries old Indo-Tibetan trade fair in November, is today also known for its festivities during this six-day affair.
In order to marry the daughter of Banasur, the local chief of Shonitpur (Sarahan), Pradhuman is said to have come to that place and after the death of Banasur in an encounter with him, he became the chief of Bushar and Kinnaur regions, since Banasur had no son.
www.dailyindia.com /show/125326.php/Residents-of-Rampur-in-Shimla-celebrate-Phag-festival   (390 words)

  
 Rampur, Uttar Pradesh State, Pictures
Rampur, city in northern India, in northern Uttar Pradesh, formerly the capital of the Rohilla native state.
Rampur was once a medieval capital famous for its traditions in the fine arts, especially music.
The Rampur gharana (style or school) of classical music—one of the major gharanas of India—attained a special significance early in the 20th century when a famous musician, Wazir Khan of Rampur, pioneered the use of the bin (a sitarlike musical instrument) for solo concerts.
www.greatestcities.com /Asia/India/Uttar_Pradesh_State/Rampur_city.html   (248 words)

  
 Rampur Campus
The Central Campus is situated at Rampur about 10 K.M. west to district headquarter, Bharatpur and 150 KM west- south of Kathmandu.
Rampur campus has an excellent central library with thousands of text and reference books, journals and other reading materials.
Rampur campus occupies 235 hectares of land with agronomy, horticulture, livestock, and fish farms for teaching, research and production activities.
www.iaasrampur.edu.np /campus.htm   (210 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
The district administration in Rampur had moved the statue of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, allegedly clandestinely, from the Civil Lines area and installed it on the side of the road, sparking a week-long agitation by the BJP.
Congress members in Rampur have initiated a signature campaign against the move to relocate the statue, especially as the pedestal is said to contain his “holy ashes”.
The royal family of Rampur recalled that when the ashes of the Mahatma were being sent across the country, the Nawabs had brought some of it in a special saloon for constructing a samadhi.
www.telegraphindia.com /1050628/asp/nation/story_4921666.asp   (501 words)

  
 Hotel Bushehar Regency, Rampur (deluxe hotel) Himachal pradesh, India & HPTDC hotel, Hill station discount hotel ...
Once the capital of the princely State of Bushahar, Rampur presently one of the biggest commercial town of Himachal Pradesh.
The Hotel is located on main NH-22 which is 2 km short of Rampur Bus Stand within the periphery of Cafe Sutlej.
In an interesting colonial and traditional styles, the Padam Palace is one of Rampur's major attractions.
www.ashextourism.com /hotelsresorts/Himachal/hotelBusheharRegency.htm   (306 words)

  
 Peter's Rum Pages - Asia: Rampur Distillery, Rampur / Radico Khaitan Limited
Rampur Distillery was set up in 1943 and has 450 lakh litre annual capacity.
Radico Khaitan's primary unit, Rampur Distillery was established in 1943 and is one of the leading manufacturers of country liquor, Rectified Sprit, Extra Neutral Alcohol and high quality liquor, which are sold locally and exported to various nations across the globe.
In 1992, the Rampur Distillery was selected as Distillery of the Year on the basis of its overall performance.
www.rum.cz /galery/sas/in/rampur   (678 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Rampur, a city in Nepal in the district of Chitwan.
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Rampur (Himachal Pradesh) a town in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Rampur   (87 words)

  
 RAMPUR - Online Information article about RAMPUR
Mutiny of 1857 the nawab of Rampur rendered important services to the British, for which he received a See also:
There are two other towns in India called Rampur, one of which, the See also:
Punjab, has given its name to the fine woollen shawls, widely known as Rampur chadars.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PYR_RAY/RAMPUR.html   (441 words)

  
 Buddha temple to be consecrated in Rampur - www.phayul.com
Buddha temple to be consecrated in Rampur - www.phayul.com
The ceremony, to be attended by the Chief Minister V B Singh would coincide with the 2550th anniversary of the "Maha Parinirvana" of Lord Buddha.
Rampur had historic significance as it is believed that Buddhism spread from here to the whole of the tribal Kinaur and Spiti areas.
www.phayul.com /news/article.aspx?id=14484   (346 words)

  
 Rampur survives - Nepali Times
Rampur’s fertile farms on the banks of the Kali Gandaki used to be on the ancient trade route from Gorakhpur in India to Pokhara and beyond.
The rebels use Rampur as a base from which to expand their activities in Nawalparasi, Syangja and Tanahu and to preserve its isolation they have halted the construction of the Pipal Danda- Gairakot road which the government was building to connect Rampur to Tansen.
The Maoists forced the closure of three high schools and two primary schools in Rampur for two academic years, but after local outrage grew last year they allowed the schools to reopen.
www.nepalitimes.com /issue/263/Nation/798   (545 words)

  
 Rampur gharana classical music school - khyal style   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Sahaswan gharana (affiliated to the Gwalior gharana, and having links with Mian Tansen) is a Indian classical school of music, khyal, settled in Rampur in the second part of the XIXth century.
For a century, Rampur was for musicians a very welcoming place.
The alap is sober and not improvised, it is a presentation of the distinctive features of the raga.
makar-records.com /siteus/rampur.html   (147 words)

  
 Hotel Bushehar Regency, rampur hotels, rampur cities information, rampur places of sight seeing, rampur tours, ...
The Hotel is located on main NH-22 which is 2 km short of Rampur Bus Stand within the periphery of Cafe Sutlej.
Once the capital of the princely State of Bushahar, Rampur presently one of the biggest commercial town of Himachal Pradesh.
In an interesting colonial and traditional styles, the Padam Palace is one of Rampur's major attractions.
www.hotels-in-himachal.com /rampur-hotels.htm   (372 words)

  
 Rampur, Rampur Travel, Rampur India, Rampur Himachal Pradesh, Rampur Tour, Rampur Tours, Rampur City, Rampur Travels, ...
Once the capital of the princely state of Bushehar, Rampur presently one of the biggest commercial town of Himachal Pradesh.
Rampur can be approached from Rohru via Sungri (90km) and from Kulu via Jalori Pass (190km).
In an interesting mix of colonial and traditional styles, the Padam Palace is one of Rampur's major attractions.
travels.talash.com /rampur-travel/index.html   (288 words)

  
 |Himachal Hotels|package tours to shimla|Sangla|Sarahan|Kalpa|Rampur Bushehar|Travel & Tour Packages|
Situated in the Sutlej Valley, on the way to Kinnaur, Sarahan was the ancient capital of Rampur Bushahr, one of the biggest princely states in the Shimla hills.
Hotel Bushehar Regency in Rampur is an offbeat deluxe resort with some of the best Hospitality in the Valley for the discerning traveler.
Day 10 Rampur - Shimla: Leave From Rampur To Shimla by 9:00 am, take your lunch at "The Retreat" near Naldehra and move from there to Chail and finally Board the HRTC VOLVO in the evening 10:15 PM to reach Delhi.
www.himachalhotels.in /Sangla_Ecstasy.htm   (754 words)

  
 Gharanas at Indoclassical.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
It was after Inayat Khansaheb settled in Rampur that this gharana emerged into its own.
The gharana came into prominence and grew in fame at the court of the Rampur maharaja, where Inayat Khan started performing as a musician.
Rampur, being highly influenced by the dhrupad tradition, was again in many ways the reason for the ‘dhrupad’ influence in Inayat Khan"s style.
www.indoclassical.com /indo/asp/rampursahaswan.asp   (97 words)

  
 People resent turning Rampur into Azambad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
More on minister's mind than mere relocation of statue-- Deep resentment is brewing in Rampur over attempts of the state Urban Development Minister Mohammad Azam Khan to give an alleged facelift to the erstwhile riyasat of Rohilla Pathans.
Ms Bano, the Begum of Rampur riyasat, said Mr Khan is suffering from complexes, "otherwise there was no need to behave and act in such an abnormal manner.
Delhi Gate, constructed by Nawab Faijullah Khan after he made Rampur the headquarters of Rohilla riyasat in 1775, was demolished on August 26 last year.
www.hvk.org /articles/0605/89.html   (660 words)

  
 The Gharana History - Ustad Rashid Khan
Mehboob Khan is said to have performed khayals in a simple style with an emphasis on tappa-style taans, which can be taken to be an indication of his affiliation to the Gwalior khayal gharana which introduced this kind of taan and also the tappa genre itself.
This was at the time of Nawab Yusuf Ali and the chief court musicians were sursringar maestro Ustad Bahadur Hussain (expired 1870) of the Rababi gharana believed to have originated from the youngest son of Mian Tansen and Ustad Amir Khan of the Beenkar gharana believed to have descended from Tansen's daughter.
It is through the styles of his sons-in-law that contemporary experts have formed their idea of the Rampur Sahaswan style and it is through their pupils and their sons-in-law that the gharana stays aloft today.
www.ustadrashidkhan.com /gharana_hist.htm   (1248 words)

  
 Rampur Hound
Rampur is a hamlet between Bareilly and Delhi.
His Royal Highness Ahmed Ali Khan Bahadur bred these dogs by combining the blood lines of very powerful but ferocious Tazi, brought in by the Afghans, and the English Greyhound that was more obedient but less resistant to the varying climatic conditions.
After the hunt the animals were taken to a pond or water source and given a bath to refresh them.
www.dogsindia.com /rampur_hound.htm   (432 words)

  
 The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum
The small erstwhile state of Rampur, not far from Delhi in Uttar Pradesh, sprang up only late in the 18th century, and the founders of it were Rohilla Pathans who, originating from Afghanistan, landed in India and lived mostly by the sword.
One also knows the connection of the greatest of Urdu poets, Mirza Ghalib, with Rampur, for it is to the Nawabs of this state that he turned for support and patronage after the fall of Bahadur Shah Zafar’s Delhi.
But to go back to Rampur, and to think that all this collecting, and this patronage of the arts and letters, came from men whose lineage showed few traces of culture but who set about on their own, entering the world of fine feelings with zeal, sensitising and acculturating themselves.
www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060716/spectrum/art.htm   (784 words)

  
 Ram and Allah unite in Rampur : rampur, minority report, muslims : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh): The vocal hardliner Muslim tends to be in the headlines, the liberal is often consigned to the margins.
Hi I am a doctor working in the UK.I have worked for 5 years in Rampur before coming to the...
According to a prophecy of Hinduism, 'kalki autar' will be born in an island and that is the Arab territory...
www.ibnlive.com /news/ram-and-allah-unite-in-rampur/6931-3.html   (405 words)

  
 Tibet lake: Rampur on tenterhooks
The Rampur sub-divisional magistrate has no time for his family or relatives ever since he has been put in charge of relief and rescue operations in case the artificial lake in Tibet spills over and floods this small town
He is taking the assistence of local municipal corporators, village heads and non-governmental organisations to put his plans into action.
The Indian Army, Indo-Tibetab Border Police, Home Guards and the state police are also assisting the administration in Rampur.
www.rediff.com /news/2004/aug/14hp1.htm   (313 words)

  
 The Hindu : Other States / Uttar Pradesh News : BJP likens Rampur to Ayodhya
LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh BJP unit on Tuesday criticised the Mulayam Singh Yadav Government in the State for allegedly trying to communalise the situation in Rampur in the wake of the removal of the statue of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya there.
``The situation in Rampur is just like it was in Ayodhya during the Ram temple movement when the SP leader was the Chief Minister,'' State party president, Keshri Nath Tripathi, here said.
Criticising Rampur authorities for arresting senior party leaders - Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Lalji Tandon and others - this morning when they were trying to hold a ``peaceful satyagrah programme'' there, Mr.
www.hindu.com /2005/06/22/stories/2005062213320300.htm   (301 words)

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