Geographical area in India
TheUpper Doab is a geographical and cultural region in the Indian state ofUttar Pradesh. It is located between the riversGanga andYamuna, in the northernmost part of the Yamuna Gangadoab.[1]
The Upper Doab contains the districts ofHaridwar,Saharanpur,Muzzafarnagar,Shamli,Meerut,Bagpat,Ghaziabad,Hapur,Gautam Budh Nagar,Bulandshahr andAligarh.
The geography of this region is flat,[2] marked by irrigation canals. The region has heavy rainfall[3]The total area of the region is 9173 sq miles.[4]
The Upper Doab region andWestern Uttar Pradesh as a whole benefited significantly from theGreen Revolution in the 1960s[5]The main crop grown in the Upper Doab is sugarcane.[6] Unlike in much of the rest of India, sugarcane is sold direct tosugarcane mills, rather than through the mandi system.[7]
Among the problems faced by the industry is the shrinkage of farm sizes due to growing populations and division of farmland, and conversion of land to non-agricultural use.[8]
The majority of the population of the region isHindu. Muslims are a sizeable minority, especially inSaharanpur[9]
The dominant castes in the region are theJats andGurjars[10][11]The Jat dominated part of the Doab was called "Herat" while the Gurjar dominated area was called "Goojerat".[12] TheRajputs are present in eastern parts ofHapur andBulandshahr, where theBargurjar clan is prominent, and in regions adjacent to theBraj region, where some of them wereZamindars.[13] These Rajputs rose in revolt in along with the Gurjars in theIndian Rebellion of 1857.[14]
The languages spoken in the region areHindi,Urdu andGujari. The Khadiboli dialect is prominent.[15]
The economy of the Upper Doab has largely been agrarian in nature.[16] In recent yearsservice sector jobs have boomed inNoida.[17]Ghaziabad is the largest industrial city inUttar Pradesh,[18] employing around five hundred forty thousand workers.[19] Real estate has also become a lucrative business in the region.
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- ^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
- ^Chand, M., Puri, V. K. (1983). Regional Planning in India. India: Allied Publishers. p.14
- ^Mukerji, Anath Bandhu,"Cultural Geography of the Jats of the Upper Doab, India." (1960). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. p.37
- ^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
- ^Parashar, B. K. (2020, September 18).Why western UP farmers are silent on Centre’s new farm bills. Hindustan Times.
- ^ibid, Hindustan Times Sept 18, 2020
- ^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.
- ^Ghose, D. (2022, January 30). UP polls:Consolidation of Muslim, Hindu votes in focus in Saharanpur. Hindustan Times.
- ^"The unambiguous assertion that therural 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 landlessor 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.
- ^Kumar, S. (2022). Popular Democracy and the Politics of Caste: Rise of the Other Backward Classes in India. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
- ^Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (1865). India: Bishop's College Press. p.403
- ^Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-Western Provinces of India: 3.: Meerut division part 2. (1876).: North-Western Provinces Government. p.140
- ^Tewari, J. P. (1966). THE REVOLT OF 1857 IN BULANDSHAHR DISTRICT. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 28, 365–376.
- ^(Trivedi, 1981)
- ^(Bandhu, 1960. p.186)
- ^Vaibhav, V., Das, V. K., & Vaibhav, V. (2021, March 30).The old Bimaru states have new boom towns. But only in pockets. ThePrint.
- ^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.
- ^Ravinder. (2024, August 24).Industrial area of ghaziabad. Ghaziabad Portal.
