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Upper Doab is a geographical and cultural region in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located between the rivers Ganga and Yamuna it is the northernmost part of the Yamuna Ganga doab[1]
Geography
[edit]The Upper doab contains the districts of Haridwar, Saharanpur, Muzzafarnagar, Shamli,Merutt, Ghaziabad, Hapur, Gautam Budh Nagar, Bulandshahr and Aligarh.
The geography of this region is flat,[2] marred by irrigational canals and with heavy rainfall[3] The total area of the region is 9173 sq miles[4] .
Demography
[edit]The majority of the population of the region is Hindu with Muslims being a sizeable majority especially in Saharanpur[5]
The dominant castes in the region are the Jats[6] and Gurjars[7] These two had carved out the region amongst themselves, the Jat dominated part of the Doab was called "Herat" while the Gurjar dominated area was called "Goojerat"[8]
Language
[edit]The languages spoken here are Urdu, Hindi and Gujari. The Khadiboli dialect is prominent here.[9]
Economy
[edit]The economy of the Upper Doab has largely been agrian in nature,[10] but in recent years service sector jobs have boomed in Noida,[11] Ghaziabad is the largest industrial city in Uttar Pradesh[12] , real estate has also been a lucrative business in the region.
References
[edit]- ^ Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2023, November 3). Upper Doab. Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ^ Trivedi, K. K. (1981). HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF GANGA-YAMUNA DOAB (I3th-17th CENTURIES). Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 42, 303–309. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44141143
- ^ Chand, M., Puri, V. K. (1983). Regional Planning in India. India: Allied Publishers. p.14
- ^ Mukerji, Anath Bandhu, "Cultural Geography of the Jats of the Upper Doab, India." (1960). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. p.37
- ^ Ghose, D. (2022, January 30). UP polls: Consolidation of Muslim, Hindu votes in focus in Saharanpur. Hindustan Times.
- ^ Stokes, E. (1978). Traditional elites in the Great Rebellion of 1857: some aspects of rural revolt in the upper and central Doab. In The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India (pp. 185–204). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Kumar, S. (2022). Popular Democracy and the Politics of Caste: Rise of the Other Backward Classes in India. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
- ^ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (1865). India: Bishop's College Press. p.403
- ^ (Trivedi, 1981)
- ^ (Bandhu, 1960. p.186)
- ^ Vaibhav, V., Das, V. K., & Vaibhav, V. (2021, March 30). The old Bimaru states have new boom towns. But only in pockets. ThePrint.
- ^ Jha, A. (2024, October 28). Maintenance of Ghaziabad's industrial clusters to go into hands of UPSIDA. The Times of India.