Category talk:Sketches about Kurrah, Mannickpore (1831)

Gazetteer Of Territories Under East India Company Vol 3. page 235

KURRAH, or KARHA, the principal place of the pergunnah of the same name, a town on the right bank of the Gange, on the route from Allahabad to Cawnpore, and 40 miles N.W. of the former. It extends about a mile along the bank, on the more elevated part of which is an old fort, now a heap of ruins, and was so in the time of Tieffenthaler: a century ago. This last author mentions that it had a number of ruined houses, from which, and from the multitude of tombs crowded around it, some conjecture may he formed of its former populousness. Its celebrity and importance, in the opinion of the native population, resulted from the vicinity of the tomb of a famous reputed Mussulman saint, named Kamal Shek, who lies buried at the contiguous town of Kamalpur. The ruin of Kurrah commenced when Akbar, towards the close of the sixteenth century, removed the civil establishment to Allahabad, and was completed by Asof ud Daulah, the nawaub of Oude, who destroyed the finest buildings for the sake of the materials, which he used in raising edifices at Lucknow. The surrounding country, however, could not have been very highly cultivated or peopled three centuries ago, as Baber mentions, that at that time it abounded in wild elephants, and the people of thirty or forty villages were mainly occupied in their capture. The town itself, at the same time, had a fort: the residence of an important Mussulman chief. Distant N.W. from Calcutta by land 535 miles. Lat. 25' 41', long. 81' 28'. Broichmore (talk) 17:10, 16 July 2024 (UTC)