Buria is a small town and earlier was a municipal committee now the part of Yamunanagr Nagar nigam situated on the banks of the Western Yamuna Canal approximately from the city of
Jagadhri
Jagadhri is a city and a municipal council in the Yamunanagar district of the Indian state of Haryana. This town lies adjacent to the city of Yamunanagar. The demarcation line between the two is difficult to discern. Jagadhri is around 90
k ...
and 8 km from
Jagadhri railway station.
History
Buri Fort, there is a fort in Buria, with ''Rang Mahal'' (pleasure palace) used by
Hamayun when he came here for hunting in Shivalik forests, whereas some relate this Rang Mahal to
Birbal
Birbal (; born Mahesh Das; 1528 16 February 1586), or Raja Birbal, was a Saraswat Hindu Bhatt Brahmin advisor and main commander (''Mukhya Senapati'') of army in the court of the Mughal emperor, Akbar. He is mostly known in the Indian subconti ...
, court advisor to the Mughal emperor
Akbar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, H ...
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[Yamunanagar History]
Gazatteer of Haryana: Yamunanagar. The presence of Birbal Dwar (Birbal Gate) in the village indicates relation to
Birbal
Birbal (; born Mahesh Das; 1528 16 February 1586), or Raja Birbal, was a Saraswat Hindu Bhatt Brahmin advisor and main commander (''Mukhya Senapati'') of army in the court of the Mughal emperor, Akbar. He is mostly known in the Indian subconti ...
.
During the
British Raj
The British Raj (; from Hindi language, Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent;
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or Direct rule in India,
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, Buria was captured by the Sikhs in 1760, and became the headquarters of a
Jat principality, which before the
Treaty of Amritsar (1809) between the British and
Maharaja Ranjit singh
Ranjit Singh (13 November 1780 – 27 June 1839), popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab or "Lion of Punjab", was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, which ruled the northwest Indian subcontinent in the early half of the 19th century. He ...
had been divided into two chiefships of Buria and Dialgarh. Contention between the widows of the last male holder of Dialgarh led to its subdivision into the estates of Jagadhri and Dialgarh which after few years came under British protection. Jagadhri jagir lapsed in 1829 and came under direct British control. The Rani of Dialgarh was one of the nine chiefs who were retained as independent protected chiefs. She retained her position until her death in 1852, after which jagir of Dialgarh also lapsed and it came under direct British rule. Buria proper was also reduced to the status of an ordinary
jagir
A jagir ( fa, , translit=Jāgir), also spelled as jageer, was a type of feudal land grant in the Indian subcontinent at the foundation of its Jagirdar (Zamindar) system. It developed during the Islamic rule era of the Indian subcontinent, start ...
in 1849.
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Other attractions include the medieval ''"Pataleshwar Mahadev Shiv Mandir"'',][ the ''"Sanatan Dharam Hanuman Mandir"'' and a Gurudwara (Sikh temple) in remembrance of the ninth Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur.
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Buria CCS HAU Regional Research Station
Buria CCS HAU Regional Research Station, with of orchard, is a Regional Research Station of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University
Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University is a public funded agricultural university located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is the biggest agricultural university in Asia. The university has of land (around at mai ...
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This research station is meant for the Horticultural Research in the region. Presently the work is based on the germplasms of mango, litchi, pear, peach plum, sapota, guava, apple and lemon. The research station is equipped with one weather observatory which provide daily weather data for the research purposes. Also the inter-cropping experiments were going on based on the newly planted orchard where the space available is utilized to develop technology for increasing the profits at the farmer's end.
Demographics
India census
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See also
* Adi Badri
* Amadalpur
* Chhachhrauli
* Chaneti Buddhist Stupa
* Kapal Mochan
* Sugh Ancient Mound
References
Cities and towns in Yamunanagar district
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