Upper Doab

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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]

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Geography

The Upper doab contains the districts of Haridwar, Saharanpur, Muzzafarnagar, Shamli,Meerut,Bagpat,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]

Agriculture

The Upper Doab region The Upper Doab region, and Western Uttar Pradesh as a whole were among the only places in India to benefit a lot from the Green Revolution in the 1960s [5] The main crop grown in the Upper Doab is sugarcane [6] the sale mechanisms of crops are different from the rest of India as opposed to the mandi system, the produce is brought directly by mills [7]

In recent Years among the problems faced by the industry is the shrinkage of farm sizes due to high population and division of farm land, allotment of land to non agricultural use [8]

Demography

The majority of the population of the region is Hindu with Muslims being a sizeable minority especially in Saharanpur [9]

The primary dominant castes in the region are the Jats and Gurjars [10] [11] 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" [12] the Rajputs are present in Eastern parts of Hapur and Bulandshahr where the Bargurjar clan is prominent , regions adjacent to the Braj region , where some of them were Zamindars second to the Gurjars [13] and rose in revolt in along with the Gurjars in 1857 [14]

Language

The languages spoken here are Urdu, Hindi and Gujari. The Khadiboli dialect is prominent here. [15]

Economy

The economy of the Upper Doab has largely been agrian in nature, [16] but in recent years service sector jobs have boomed in Noida, [17] Ghaziabad is the largest industrial city in Uttar Pradesh [18] employing around Five hundred forty thousand workers, [19] real estate has also been a lucrative business in the region.

References

  1. ↑ Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2023, November 3). Upper Doab. Encyclopedia Britannica.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ Chand, M., Puri, V. K. (1983). Regional Planning in India. India: Allied Publishers. p.14
  4. ↑ Mukerji, Anath Bandhu, "Cultural Geography of the Jats of the Upper Doab, India." (1960). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. p.37
  5. ↑ Pathak, H, Panda (Ed.), B.B (Ed.) & Nayak, A.(Ed.).(2019). Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India:Experiences and Expectations. Indian Council of Agricultural Research National Rice Research Institute. p. v
  6. ↑ Parashar, B. K. (2020, September 18). Why western UP farmers are silent on Centre’s new farm bills. Hindustan Times.
  7. ↑ ibid, Hindustan Times Sept 18, 2020
  8. ↑ Singh, R. P., & Islam, Z. (2010). Land use planning in Western Uttar Pradesh: Issues and challenges. Recent Research in Science and Technology, 2(9), 11–17.
  9. ↑ Ghose, D. (2022, January 30). UP polls: Consolidation of Muslim, Hindu votes in focus in Saharanpur. Hindustan Times.
  10. ↑ "The unambiguous assertion that the rural landscape in western UP is solely dominated by either Jats or Gujars. Jats and Gujars own most of the land and other castes are either landless or very marginal landholding castes" quoted in Sahay, G. R. (2015). Dominance of Jats is unabated: Caste and dominance in the villages of western Uttar Pradesh. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 49(2), 216-249.
  11. ↑ Kumar, S. (2022). Popular Democracy and the Politics of Caste: Rise of the Other Backward Classes in India. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
  12. ↑ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (1865). India: Bishop's College Press. p.403
  13. ↑ Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-Western Provinces of India]: 3.:Meerut division part 2. (1876).: North-Western Provinces Government. p.140
  14. ↑ Tewari, J. P. (1966). THE REVOLT OF 1857 IN BULANDSHAHR DISTRICT. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 28, 365–376.
  15. ↑ (Trivedi, 1981)
  16. ↑ (Bandhu, 1960. p.186)
  17. ↑ Vaibhav, V., Das, V. K., & Vaibhav, V. (2021, March 30). The old Bimaru states have new boom towns. But only in pockets. ThePrint.
  18. ↑ Jha, A. (2024, October 28). Maintenance of Ghaziabad's industrial clusters to go into hands of UPSIDA with the most factories in the stateJha, A. (2020, October 4). 27,000 factories in Ghaziabad are operating with 80% workforce, say officials . The Times of India. The Times of India.
  19. ↑ Ravinder. (2024, August 24). Industrial area of ghaziabad. Ghaziabad Portal.
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