Civil Lines is a Civil Lines commercial street located near the town centre in

Bareilly Bareilly () is a city in Bareilly district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is among the largest metropolises in Western Uttar Pradesh and is the centre of the Bareilly division as well as the historical region of Rohilkhand. The city ...

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. It is located centrally in the city of

. The name Civil Lines comes from the time of the

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 ...

, when the city of

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was organized into separate areas where the British Military and Civilian buildings were located. Areas where civilians lived were demarcated as Civil Lines. Later most of the prominent North Indian cities, including Bareilly, adopted this name for their commercial areas. The civil lines of Bareilly was settled between the old city and the

cantonment A cantonment (, , or ) is a type of military base. In South Asia, a ''cantonment'' refers to a permanent military station (a term from the British Raj). In United States military parlance, a cantonment is, essentially, "a permanent residential ...

in the late nineteenth century; only British officers used to live in the area then. Apart from the cantonment, the police lines and the

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were also located to the south of the civil lines, While the district prison was to its west and the circuit house was situated to its north-east, where several upper class bungalows were built. A few years later, the Company Garden (now Gandhi Udyan) was constructed towards its east. After independence, the civil lines started expanding in the northeast direction, and it was at this time, that a residential colony named Rampur Garden started to settle on this side. Most of the government offices in Bareilly are located in the Civil Lines or Rampur Garden.

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* {{cite book , last1=Lal , first1=Hira , title=City and Urban Fringe: A Case Study of Bareilly , date=1987 , publisher=Concept Publishing Company , isbn=978-81-7022-190-6 , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NQBRrP4HOAkC , access-date=18 February 2020 , language=en Bareilly Neighbourhoods in Bareilly