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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 63 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HATHRAS , a See also:

town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Aligarh See also:district of the See also:United Provinces, 29 m. N. of See also:Agra. Pop. (1901), 42,578. At the end of the 18th See also:century it was held by a Jat chieftain, whose ruined fort still stands at the See also:east end of the town, and was annexed by the British in 1803, but insubordination on the See also:part of the See also:chief necessitated the See also:siege of the fort in 1817. Since it came under British See also:rule, Hathras has rapidly risen to commercial importance, and now ranks second to See also:Cawnpore among the trading centres of the See also:Doab. The chief articles of See also:commerce are See also:sugar and See also:grain, there are also factories for ginning and pressing See also:cotton, and a cotton See also:spinning-See also:mill. Hathras is connected by a See also:light railway with See also:Muttra, and by a See also:branch with Hathras junction, on the East Indain See also:main See also:line.

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