Chapar Ghata is a fort village in

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in the state of

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. Chapar Ghata is located in Amraudha block of

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Musanagar Musanagar or Moosanagar is a town in Kanpur Dehat district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The town is situated near the bank of river Yamuna, on both sides of the Mughal Road. According to the 2011 census of India, the population of Musa ...

, an ancient town, is about east of it. The nearest railway station is at

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History

Chapar Ghata occupies the site of an old crossing on the

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. There is a fort made during

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, along with a bridge on the

Mughal Road Mughal Road is the road between Bufliaz, a town in the Poonch district, to the Shopian district, in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The 84-kilometre roadhttp://www.greaterkashmir.com/full_story.asp?Date=6_12_2008&ItemID=3 ...

(NH 2A) over the Sengar River. Since old Mughal Road passes through the village, there is a

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in its vicinity, and also at Rajpur and Khalaspur. In the early 20th Century, Chapar Ghata was subject of litigation by nearby villagers who wanted to transport their cattle through the village's forests; the courts ruled that no

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, or 'straggling right' existed allowing the neighboring farmers to drive their cattle through Chapar Ghata.

Demographics

As of the 2001 India census, Chapar Ghata had a population of 2,790. Males constituted 52.5% of the population, and females 42.5%. As of the 2011 India census, the village has a population of 3,112; 1,662 are males (53.4% of the population) while 1,450 are females (46.6 %). Overall average literacy is 62.93%, which is lower than the state average.

References

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