Bareilly

Bareilly, or BARELI, the chief city of a district in Rohilkhand, North-west Provinces of India, pleasantly situated in a well-wooded country on the Ranganga, 152 miles E. of Delhi. The city, civil station, and cantonments lie on an open plain, and show irregular outline and mean architecture, the private houses being mostly built of mud. Cotton, grain, and sugar are the staples of commerce; furniture and upholstery the manufactures. It is the seat of a college attended by more than 300 students. Bareilly was a centre of disaffection during the Mutiny, but was taken in May 1858. Pop. (1881) 109,844; (1891) 121,039.—The district has an area of 1595 sq. m., contains (1891) 1,040,461 inhabitants, and is bounded on the N. by Tarai, and on the E. by Nepal. (Rey Bareilly, or Rai Bareli, is a different town, district, and division in Oudh, near Lucknow).