Khurja, a town of British India, lying 50 miles S. of Meerut and 50 SE. of Delhi, is the chief commercial centre in the district of Bulandshahr. There is a large export of raw cotton to Cawnpore and Calcutta. Pop. (1891) 26,349, chiefly Pathans and Baniyas. The latter have banking establishments all over India. They are Jains in religion, and own a fine modern temple.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 422
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