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Muzaffarnagar city and district in Saharanpur Division is known for a number of reasons. Thana Bhawan once a part of Muzaffarnagar and now lying in Shamli district is the ancestral village of the Urdu humorist Shaukat Thanvi. Amir Alam former M.P. and Uttar Pradesh minister, chairman of Bharat groups of colleges is one of the…
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Jahangirabad of Shefta indicates to two entities, Jahangirabad a town in the District of Bulandshahr and Shefta, nom de plume of Mustafa Khan Shefta, a Nawab, who is an integral part of the city and the regions around it. Jahangirabad is named after the Mughal Emperor, Jahangir. He had stayed here for a couple of…
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Sarkar-e-Bansa Abdul Razzaq Banswi alias Syed Sahab, was born in 1630s. He was a born Wali (Mystic, Friend of GOD) during the reign of the emperor Shahjahan. His ancestors, during the reign of Babar, migrated from Badakshan Valley to Delhi via Multan. He followed the Spiritual Chain of Qadriyah in his lifetime. But he also…
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Eidgah Shamsi of Budaun is located about one mile away in the west from the city. This is the same building that was built by Sultan Shamsuddin Iltutmish in 1095 CE during his administration. This has 300 ft long wall and one pulpit is erected to recite the sermon. There is the historical wall to…
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Fort of Budaun was a marvelous fort in ancient time, whose architecture was a fine specimen of Indian Engineering of the bygone era. Historians are not unanimous when the fort was erected. Some of them say that the founder of this castle was Raja Buddha and others are of the opinion that the year of…
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One of the Islamic seminaries I studied is Madrasa Tahfizul Quran, Tehai Madaripur, post Rampur Hari, Block Minapur Muzaffarpur, Bihar. This Islamic educational institution is spreading the light of the revealed Book of Islam and its sciences for more than the last 04 decades. As its name suggests, basically this seat of learning was established…
