Bah is a

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and sub-division in

Agra district Agra () is one of the 75 districts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The district headquarters is the historical city of Agra. Agra district is a part of Agra division. Geography The district lies in the cultural region of Br ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

in India. The township is on the State Highway 62 of Uttar Pradesh. The place is surrounded by three rivers giving it its name.

Geography

This place is situated in

. Three rivers,

Yamuna The Yamuna (; ) is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in India. Originating from the Yamunotri Glacier at a height of about on the southwestern slopes of Bandarpunch peaks of the Low ...

, Chambal and Utangan irrigate its land and separate it from the states

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and Rajasthan. There has been several demands to make the Bah-Bateshwar district.

History

The history of Bah can be dated back to Vedic Era. However, no archaeological findings have been found in the area but, analyzing using historical maps gives an insight of the history of place and various kingdoms or republics that have acquired the place Prior to establishment of first known township the place was primarily a forest in the fertile land of Yamuna plains. The first known townships was established by Maharaja Mahendra Kalyan Singh of Bhadawar naming the place "Bah Kalyanpur". The name "Bah", literally meaning 'to flow' in local language, signifies the character of place. It is surrounded by three rivers: Chambal,

and Utangan. From the very establishment of the township the Mughal Empire was declining so Mughal influence didn't reached the town and the history is much preserved locally for the region. From the very establishment the town has been a free place. Following is a list of kingdoms, janapadas and republics that have resorted control over the area. The list has been compiled on basis of Map analysis of Various States so is prone to errors, but general details are credible but not final: *

Mahabharat The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; , , ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered as Smriti texts in Hinduism, the other being the '' Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kurukshetra War, a war of succes ...

Era: Part of

Surasena The kingdom of Surasena () was an ancient Indian region corresponding to the present-day Braj region in Uttar Pradesh, with Mathura as its capital city. According to the Buddhist text '' Anguttara Nikaya'', Surasena was one of the sixteen Ma ...

Vedic Period The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (–900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the e ...

Kunti Kingdom The Kunti kingdom was the kingdom of Kunti-Bhoja, one of the prominent kings among the Bhoja-Yadavas. Kunti, the mother of Pandavas and the first wife of Kuru king Pandu, was the adopted daughter of Kuntibhoja. Her given name was Pritha and sh ...

* 700 BCE - 322 BCE : Part of

Kingdom. * 345 BCE - 321 BCE : Part of

Magadha Magadha was a region and kingdom in ancient India, based in the eastern Ganges Plain. It was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas during the Second Urbanization period. The region was ruled by several dynasties, which overshadowed, conquered, and ...

Nanda Dynasty The Nanda Empire was a vast empire that governed in Magadha and Gangetic plains with an enormous geographical reach in 4th-century BCE northeastern India, with some accounts suggesting existence as far back as the 5th century BCE. The Nandas ...

* 321 BCE - 180 BCE : Part of

Mauryan Empire The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia with its power base in Magadha. Founded by Chandragupta Maurya around c. 320 BCE, it existed in loose-knit fashion until 185 BCE. The primary sourc ...

* 180 BCE - 124 BCE : Part of

Shunga Empire The Shunga Empire (IAST: ') was a ruling entity centred around Magadha and controlled most of the northern Indian subcontinent from around 187 to 75 BCE. The dynasty was established by Pushyamitra, after taking the throne of Magadha from the ...

* 124 BCE - 1st BCE : Part of

Kosala Kosala, sometimes referred to as Uttara Kosala () was one of the Mahajanapadas of ancient India. It emerged as a small state during the Late Vedic period and became (along with Magadha) one of the earliest states to transition from a lineage ...

Principality, under

Deva dynasty Deva Dynasty (c. 12th – 15th centuries) was a Bengali Hindu dynasty which originated in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent; the dynasty ruled over eastern Bengal after the Sena dynasty. The capital of the dynasty was Bikrampur in ...

(Saketa) * 1st BC - 1st CE : unknown, maybe

Datta Dynasty The Datta dynasty is a dynasty of rulers who flourished in the northern India in the areas of Mathura and Ayodhya around the 1st century BCE – 1st century CE.History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura: Ca. 150 BCE – 100 CE, Sonya Rhie ...

* 1st CE - 2nd CE : probably Mitra Dynasty * 127 CE - 265 CE : Kushana Empire * 266 CE - 335 CE : Unknown, probably under Nagas or Ahicchatras or both * 336 CE - 510 CE :

Gupta Empire The Gupta Empire was an Indian empire during the classical period of the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century to mid 6th century CE. At its zenith, the dynasty ruled over an empire that spanned much of the northern Indian ...

, with some periods of discontinuity due to

Hunas Hunas or Huna (Middle Brahmi script: ''Hūṇā'') was the name given by the ancient Indians to a group of Central Asian tribes who, via the Khyber Pass, entered the Indian subcontinent at the end of the 5th or early 6th century. The Hunas occu ...

. * 510 CE - 605 CE : Various post-Gupta, dominantly

Maukhari Dynasty The Maukhari dynasty (Gupta script: , ''Mau-kha-ri'') was a post-Gupta Empire, Gupta dynasty who controlled the vast plains of Ganges, Ganga-Yamuna for over six generations from their capital at Kannauj, Kanyakubja. They earlier served as vassa ...

, Kannauj Kingdom. * 606 c. CE - c. 650 CE :

Pushyabhuti Dynasty The Pushyabhuti dynasty (IAST: Puṣyabhūti), also known as the Vardhana dynasty, was the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Thanesar in northern India during the 6th and 7th centuries. The dynasty reached its zenith under its last ruler Harshav ...

, King Harsh * 650 c. CE - end of 8th CE :

Varman Dynasty The Varman dynasty (350–650) was the first historical dynasty of the Kamarupa kingdom. It was established by Pushyavarman, a contemporary of Samudragupta. The earlier Varmans were subordinates of the Gupta Empire, but as the power of the Gup ...

* 800 c. CE - 950 c. CE : Mostly by Gurjar-Pratihars * 950 c. CE - 1000 c. CE:

Pala Dynasty The Pāla Empire was the empire ruled by the Pala dynasty, ("protector" in Sanskrit) a medieval Indian dynasty which ruled the kingdom of Gauda. The empire was founded with the election of Gopāla by the chiefs of Gauda in late eighth centu ...

* 1000 c. CE - 1065 c. CE :

Paramara Dynasty The Paramara Dynasty (IAST: Paramāra) was an Indian dynasty that ruled Malwa and surrounding areas in west-central India between 9th and 14th centuries. They belonged to the Parmar (clan), Paramara clan of the Rajputs. The dynasty was establi ...

(mainly

Bhoja Bhoja was the Paramara dynasty, Paramara king of Malwa from 1010 until his death in 1055. He ruled from Dhara (city), Dhara (modern Dhar), and Military career of Bhoja, fought wars with nearly all his neighbours in attempts to extend his king ...

) * 1065 c. CE - 1150 c. CE :

Tomara Dynasty The Tomaras of Delhi (also called Tomar dynasty in modern vernaculars due to schwa deletion) ruled parts of present-day Delhi and Haryana in India during 8th–12th century. Their rule over this region is attested to by multiple inscriptions ...

* 1150 c. CE - 1192 c. CE : Chauhans of Ajmer * 1194 c. CE - 1228 c. CE : Chauhans of Chandrawar. * 1230 c. CE - 1256 c. CE :

Mewati Mewati ( Devanagri: मेवाती; Perso-Arabic: میواتی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Meo people. It has three million speakers in the Mewat Region with most speakers in Nuh district of Haryana. It is al ...

Freebooter rule. * 1257 c. CE - 1805 c. CE : Bhadawar Kingdom (Largely free from

Delhi Sultanate The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a Medieval India, late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for more than three centuries.

suzerainty) * 19th c. CE - 15th August 1947 : Part of Taluqedari of Bhadawar Raj -

British Raj The British Raj ( ; from Hindustani language, Hindustani , 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the colonial rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent, * * lasting from 1858 to 1947. * * It is also called Crown rule ...

and

Company Rule Company rule in India (also known as the Company Raj, from Hindi , ) refers to regions of the Indian subcontinent under the control of the British East India Company (EIC). The EIC, founded in 1600, established its first trading post in India ...

. * 15th of August 1947 - 26th of August 1951 :

Dominion of India The Dominion of India, officially the Union of India, * * was an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations existing between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950. Until its Indian independence movement, independence, India had be ...

* 26th of August 1950 - Present :

Bhārat Gaṇarājya India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by ...

(English : Republic of India) ** State of Union of India:

Demographics

As of 2011 Indian Census, Bah had a total population of 16,211, of which 8,564 were males and 7,647 were females, giving a sex ratio of 893. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 2,173. The total number of literates in Bah was 10,950, which constituted 67.5% of the population with male literacy of 72.4% and female literacy of 61.9%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Bah was 78.0%, of which male literacy rate was 84.4% and female literacy rate was 70.9%. The Scheduled Castes population was 1,645. Bah had 2661 households in 2011.

Language

The main spoken language is

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

, which is also the official language.

Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

is the additional official language..

Administration

In the present time, Bah is a Tehsil place comprising three blocks namely Bah, Jaitpur and Pinahat.

Politics

Bah (Assembly constituency) represents the area. Bah railway station board

Notable people

* Genda Lal Dixit (30 November 1888 – 21 December 1920) was an Indian revolutionary who led the Shivaji Samiti group of freedom fighters against the

. * Ankit Sharma is an athlete who competes in the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

event. He was born on 20 July 1992 in Pinahat block.

References

{{Agra district Cities and towns in Agra district