Hathras, a well-built town of India, in the North-west Provinces, 21 miles S. of Aligarh. It is the commercial centre for the Upper Doab, and has a large export trade in sugar, grain, cotton, oil-seeds, and ghit, and imports iron and metal-wares, cloth, &c. The delicate carved work of the town is famous. Pop. (1891) 39,181.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 583
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