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{{Use Indian English|date=December 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Bulandshahr
| other_name =
| settlement_type = City
| image_skyline = Bulandshahr Skyline 02.jpg
| image_alt =
| image_caption = Bulandshahr skyline
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
| coordinates = {{coord|28.4|N|77.85|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Bulandshahr district|Bulandshahr]]
| established_title = 
| established_date =
| founder = King [[Ahibaran]]
| named_for =
| government_type =
| governing_body =
| unit_pref = Metric
| area_footnotes =
| area_rank =
| area_total_km2 = 64
| elevation_footnotes =
| elevation_m = 195
| population_total = 235310<ref name="CoI 2011" />
| population_as_of = 2011
| population_rank =
| population_density_km2 = 788
| population_demonym =
| population_footnotes =
| demographics_type1 = [[Language]]
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Hindi language|Hindi]]<ref name="langoff">{{cite web|title=52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India|url=http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf|website=nclm.nic.in|publisher=[[Ministry of Minority Affairs]]|access-date=21 December 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525141614/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf|archive-date=25 May 2017}}</ref>
| demographics1_title2 = Additional official
| demographics1_info2 = [[Urdu]]<ref name="langoff"/>
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 203001
| area_code_type = Telephone code
| area_code = 91 (5732)
| registration_plate = UP-13
| blank1_name_sec1 = [[Human sex ratio|Sex ratio]]
| blank1_info_sec1 = 1.892 [[male|♂]]/[[female|♀]]
| website = {{URL|bulandshahar.nic.in}}
| footnotes =
}}

'''Bulandshahr''' is a city and a [[municipal board]] in [[Bulandshahr district]] in the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]], India.<ref name="BulProfile">{{cite web |title=District-Profile {{!}} District Bulandshahr, Government of Uttar Pradesh {{!}} India |url=https://bulandshahar.nic.in/district-profile/ |access-date=17 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119145846/https://bulandshahar.nic.in/district-profile/ |archive-date=17 April 2021}}</ref> It is the administrative headquarters of Bulandshahr District. According to the Government of India, the district Bulandshahr is one of the Minority Concentrated Districts of India on the basis of the 2011 census data on population, socio-economic indicators and basic amenities indicators.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://minorityaffairs.gov.in/sites/default/files/MCDs_category.pdf |title=List of Minority Concentration Districts (Category 'A' & 'B') |publisher=minorityaffairs.gov.in |access-date=25 February 2019}}</ref> The distance between Bulandshahr and [[New Delhi]] is 68 km.<ref name=Map/>

==Etymology==
An early history of Bulandshahr and its origin of name is given by British [[District magistrate|District magistrate and collector]] for the [[Indian Civil Service]], [[Frederic Salmon Growse]], in a paper titled "Bulandshahr Antiquities" published in the ''Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal'' in 1879.<ref name=Growse1879>{{cite journal |last=Growse|first=F. S.|title=Bulandshahr Antiquities |journal=Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal |date=1879 |pages=270–276 |url=https://archive.org/details/journalofasiatic48asia/page/270/mode/2up?q=growse}}</ref> Bulandshahr was founded as 'Baran' by the king [[Ahibaran]].<ref name=Provinces>{{Cite book|last=Provinces (India)|first=North-Western|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJ0IAAAAQAAJ&q=Ahibaran+Baran+bulandshahr&pg=PA78|title=Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-Western Provinces of India: Meerut division. v.2:pt.1. Saháranpur District. v.2:pt.2. Aligarh District. v.3:pt.1. Bulandshahr District. v.3:pt.2. Meerut (Mirath) District. v.3:pt.3. Muzaffarnagar District|date=1875|publisher=Printed at the North-western Provinces' Government Press|pages=78|language=en}}</ref>

Since it was perched on a highland it came to be known as "high city",<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ig9uAAAAMAAJ&q=bulandshahr+high+land+persian|title=Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Bulandshahr|date=1980|publisher=Government of Uttar Pradesh|language=en}}</ref> ({{lang-fa|بلند شهر}}), which translates as Bulandshahr in [[Persian language]] during the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] era.

== History ==
===Early history===
Growse's discoveries in the 1880s showed that Baran was inhabited by Buddhists between 400 and 600AD.<ref name="Nevill1922">{{cite book |last1=Nevill |first1=H. R. |title=District Gazetteers Of The United Provinces Of Agra And Oudh Bulandshar Vol-V |date=1922 |publisher=Government Branch Press |location=Lucknow |pages=204–208|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1369/page/n217/mode/2up?q=Growseganj+}}</ref>

The kingdom of Baran came to an end probably during the 12th century. In 1192 CE when [[Muhammad of Ghor|Muhammad Ghauri]] conquered parts of India, his general [[Qutb-ud-din Aibak|Qutubuddin Aibak]] surrounded Fort Baran and conquered it and the Raja Chandrasen Dodiya was killed and Aibak took control of the Baran kingdom.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

The ancient ruins found at places in Bhatora Veerpur, Ghalibpur, etc. are indicative of the antiquity of Bulandshahr. There are several other important places in the District from where statues belonging to the medieval age and objects of ancient temples have been found. Even today, several of these historical and ancient objects such as coins, inscriptions etc. are preserved in the [[State Museum Lucknow]].{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

===British rule===
[[Raja Lachhman Singh]] (1826-1896), who served the government from 1847 and wrote a ''Statistical Memoir of the Bulandshahr District'', moved to Bulandshahr following retirement.<ref name="Buckland">{{cite book |last1=Buckland |first1=C. E. |title=Dictionary of Indian Biography |year=1971 |publisher=Ardent Media |page=60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8AKI2nqPBQC&pg=PA60 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=GrowsePreface>{{Cite book|last=Growse|first=Frederic Salmon|url=http://archive.org/details/bulandshahrorsk00growgoog|title=Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural|date=1884|publisher=Medical Hall Press|location=Benares|pages=10|language=English}}</ref>

The [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] is generally associated with the surrounding areas such [[Meerut]], [[Delhi]] and [[Aligarh]].<ref name="Tewari1966">{{cite journal |last1=Tewari |first1=J. P. |title=The revolt of 1857 in Bulandshahr District |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1966 |volume=28 |pages=365–376 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44140455?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3A1fd0f515f829d6f33a0249ff7ea10782&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents |issn=2249-1937|url-access=subscription}}</ref> On 20 May 1857, the 9th regiment of Bulandshahr looted the treasury at Bulandshahr. [[Alfred Comyn Lyall|Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall]] was subsequently appointed assistant magistrate of Bulandshahr, and [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts|Lord Roberts]] was also present in the district.<ref name="Tewari1966"/><ref name="Mukherjee1958">{{cite journal |last1=Mukherjee |first1=Paresh Nath |title=Bulandshahr in 1857 rising |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1958 |volume=21 |pages=496–500 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44145246?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3Ae5815c2bea38455a0676119388ca31b3&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents |issn=2249-1937|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Nawab Walidad Khan and the 1857 Struggle in the Bulandshahr district |journal=The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India |date=1978 |pages=140–158 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/peasant-and-the-raj/nawab-walidad-khan-and-the-1857-struggle-in-the-bulandshahr-district/2F8D5DB84BACC27BAC95DF787504A08C |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}}</ref>

Hindi scholar, archaeologist and [[district magistrate and collector]] of Bulandshahr from 1876 to 1884, Frederic Growse, resided at Collector's House, Bulandshahr.<ref name=today/> In 1884 he published ''Bulandshahr; or, Sketches of an Indian district; social, historical and architectural''.<ref name=JRAS1893>{{cite book|title=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PKrsuYUrWg0C|year=1893|publisher=Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland|pages=650–652}}</ref>

Raja Babu Park had been constructed in Bulandshahr in 1837, and a statue of [[Queen Victoria]] was placed there in 1901, when the park was renamed ‘Maharani Victoria Park’.<ref name=2011CensusBulandshahr>[https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/09/0911_PART_A_DCHB_BULANDSHAHR.pdf "Census of India 2011: Bulandshahr village and town directory"]. Series 10, PART XII-A.</ref>
<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" >
File:Garden Gate, Bulandshahr (1880s).png|thumb|Garden Gate, Bulandshahr (1880s)<ref name=today>{{Cite web|title=Indian Architecture of To-day as Exemplified in the New Buildings of Bulandshahr District, Part II · Highlights from the Digital Content Library|url=https://dcl.dash.umn.edu/highlights/items/show/256|access-date=17 April 2021|website=dcl.dash.umn.edu}}</ref>
File:Town Hall Bulandshahr. North Verandah. Photograph by Chunni Lál.png|thumb|Town Hall Bulandshahr. North Verandah (Chunni Lál)<ref name=today/>
File:Collector's House, Bulandshahr.jpg|thumb|Collector's House, Bulandshahr, image from text of 1886.<ref name=today/>
</gallery>

==Post-independence==
Following India's independence, ‘Maharani Victoria Park’ was renamed after Shri Rajeshwar Dayal Saxena (Raja Babu), president of the Civil Bar Association and later president of Municipal Board, Bulandshahar. Later it was renamed again back to 'Raja Babu Park'. In 1969 a statue of ‘Mahatma Gandhi’was established in the park.<ref name=2011CensusBulandshahr/>

==Geography==
The distance between Bulandshahr and [[New Delhi]] is 68 km.<ref name=Map>{{Cite web|title = New Delhi, Delhi to Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh directions, best route map, conditions and traffic info|url = http://www.distancebetweencities.co.in/new-delhi_delhi_and_bulandshahr_uttar-pradesh/route|website = www.distancebetweencities.co.in|access-date = 2 August 2015}}</ref> It lies in the Bulandshahr District on the Agra to Delhi Road, and is surrounded by [[Delhi]], [[Meerut]], [[Moradabad]], [[Badaun]] and [[Aligarh]].<ref name="Tewari1966"/>

==Demographics==
As per provisional data of 2011 census, Bulandshahr urban agglomeration had a population of 235,310, out of which males were 125,549 and females were 111,761. Population in the age groups of 0 to 6 years was 30,886. The total number of literates were 160,203, of which 90,761 were males and 69,442 were females. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population was 78.37%.<ref name="CoI 2011">{{cite web| url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/India2/Table_3_PR_UA_Citiees_1Lakh_and_Above.pdf | title = Urban Agglomerations/Cities having population 1 lakh and above |work= Provisional Population Totals, Census of India 2011 |access-date = 7 July 2012 }}</ref>
{{bar box
|title=Religions in Bulandshahr
|titlebar=#Fcd116
|left1=Religion
|right1=Percent
|float=right
|bars=
{{bar percent|[[Hindus]]|orange|63.63}}
{{bar percent|[[Muslims]]|green|35.53}}
{{bar percent|[[Jainism|Jains]]|pink|0.13}}
{{bar percent|Others†|black|0.72}}
|caption=Distribution of religions<br />
†<small>Includes [[Sikh]]s (0.35%), [[Buddhism|Buddhists]] (<0.04%).</small>
}}

==Administration and politics==
Bulandshahr is one of seven administrative sub-divisions of the [[Bulandshahr district|District of Bulandshahr]].<ref name="BulProfile"/>

==Buildings==
Bulandshahr has four gates; Bunford Club Gate, Fatehganj Gate, Growseganj Gate and Moti Bagh Gate.<ref name=2011CensusBulandshahr/>

==Events==
The town hosts an annual exhibition known as 'numaish'.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0QkNAQAAMAAJ&q=bulandshahr+numaish|title=The Geographer|date=1982|publisher=Aligarh Muslim University Geographical Society.|language=en}}</ref>

== Notable people ==
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*[[Capt. Abbas Ali]]<ref name="TH2014">{{cite news |title=Freedom fighter Abbas Ali to support Arvind Kejriwal |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/freedom-fighter-abbas-ali-to-support-arvind-kejriwal/article5854491.ece |access-date=12 April 2021 |work=The Hindu |date=31 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709063021/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/freedom-fighter-abbas-ali-to-support-arvind-kejriwal/article5854491.ece |archive-date=12 April 2021 |language=en-IN}}</ref>
*[[Amit Bhadana]]<ref name="Bose">{{cite book|last=Bose|first=Ajitabha |title=The Youtube Stars Of India: And their journey to stardom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oH0eEAAAQBAJ|publisher=Ajitabha Publishers|isbn=978-81-949914-3-4|page=39}}</ref>
*[[Kay Baxter (dramatist)|Kay Baxter]]<ref name="ODNBBaxter">{{cite ODNB|last1=Wilson |first1=Derek |title=Baxter [née fforde], Kathleen Mary Carver [Kay] |publisher=OUP |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/72210 |year=2004 }}</ref>
*[[Sonal Chauhan]]<ref name="Chauhan">{{cite web |title=All you want to know about #SonalChauhan |url=https://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/sonal-chauhan.html#biography |website=FilmiBeat |access-date=13 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207031202/https://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/sonal-chauhan.html#biography |archive-date=13 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Banarasi Das]]<ref name="Das">{{cite book |last1=Brass |first1=Paul R. |title=An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1957 to 1967 |publisher=SAGE Publications India |isbn=978-81-321-1715-5 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7bKICwAAQBAJ&pg=PT405|page=405 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Jaiprakash Gaur]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Damodaran|first=Harish|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92F7DwAAQBAJ|title=INDIA'S NEW CAPITALISTS: Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation|date=2018|publisher=Hachette India|isbn=978-93-5195-280-0|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Saloni Gaur]]
*[[Arif Mohammad Khan]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Shri. Arif Mohammed Khan {{!}} Kerala Agricultural University |url=http://www.kau.edu/people/shri-arif-mohammed-khan |website=www.kau.edu |access-date=13 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[Bhuvneshwar Kumar]], fast bowler in the Indian cricket team.
*[[Satish Kumar (boxer)|Satish Kumar]]<ref name="Kumar">{{cite web |title=History-maker Satish Kumar at the nation's service |url=https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/stories/features/detail/indian-boxer-satish-kumar-tokyo-olympics-super-heavyweight-army/ |website=Olympic Channel |access-date=13 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126213035/https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/stories/features/detail/indian-boxer-satish-kumar-tokyo-olympics-super-heavyweight-army/ |archive-date=13 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[Hitesh Kumari]], former minister of UP irrigation department, and MLA from [[Debai (Assembly constituency)|Debai assembly constituency]].

*[[Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava]], scientist expert in bioinformatics, winner of awards including [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]]
*[[Arfa Khanum Sherwani]], Indian journalist
*[[Kushal Pal Singh]], CEO of [[DLF Limited]], India's largest real estate developer.
*[[Neera Yadav]], ex-officer of the [[Indian Administrative Service]].


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==Gallery==
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File:Bulandshahr Railway Station.jpg|Bulandshahr Railway Station
File:Bulandshahr street frontage.png|Bulandshahr street frontages 2012
File:Sunaro wali gali, Bulandshahr.jpg|thumb|Sunaro wali galli
File:Cow, Bulandshahr, India (2012).png|Cow on street
File:Maman road, Bulandshahr .jpg|Maman road, Bulandshahr
File:Bulandshahr vegetable market.jpg|thumb|Bulandshahr vegetable market
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://archive.org/details/bulandshahrorsk00growgoog/page/n24 ''Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural'']. Frederic Salmon Growse, Benares (1884).

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