Ghazipur

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'''Ghazipur''' is a city in the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]], India. Ghazipur city is the administrative headquarters of the [[Ghazipur district]], one of the four districts that form the [[Varanasi division]] of Uttar Pradesh.
The city of Ghazipur also constitutes one of the seven distinct [[Tahalsidar|tehsils]], or subdivisions, of the Ghazipur district.<ref>"[https://ghazipur.nic.in/tehsil Tehsil | District Ghazipur, Government of Uttar Pradesh | India],"</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ghazipur, a city established during Tughlaqs|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Ghazipur-India|url-status=live}}</ref>

Ghazipur is well known for its [[opium]] factory, established by the [[British East India Company]] in 1820 and still the biggest legal opium factory in the world, producing the drug for the global pharmaceutical industry.<ref name=Paxman>{{cite book|author-link=Jeremy Paxman|first=Jeremy|last=Paxman|title=Empire:What Ruling the World Did to the British|year=2011|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|place=London|chapter=Chapter 3}}</ref> Ghazipur lies close to the Uttar Pradesh-[[Bihar]] border, about {{convert|80|km|abbr=on}} east of [[Varanasi]] and {{convert|50|km|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Sayed Ahmad Khan{{!}}Books|url=http://www.sirsyedtoday.org/books/?cid=33}}</ref>

==History==
As per the verbal and folk history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ghazipur.nic.in/history.htm |title=Ghazipur That is known as Gadhipuri |publisher=Ghazipur.nic.in |access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref> Ghazipur was covered with dense forest during the Vedic era and it was a place for ashrams of saints during that period. The place is related to the [[Ramayana]] period. Maharshi [[Jamadagni]], the father of Maharshi [[Parashurama]], is said to have resided here.<ref name="(India)1982">{{cite book|author=Uttar Pradesh (India)|title=Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Ghazipur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UnAbAAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Government of Uttar Pradesh|pages=15–16}}</ref> The famous [[Gautama Maharishi]] and [[Chyavana]] were given teaching and sermon here in ancient period. [[Lord Buddha]] gave his first sermon in [[Sarnath]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_tktd_up_sarnath.asp |title=Sarnath Buddhist Pilgrimage – Ticketed Monument – Archaeological Survey of India |publisher=Asi.nic.in |access-date=8 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416091701/http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_tktd_up_sarnath.asp |archive-date=16 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> which is not far from here.<ref name="PlacesOfInterest">{{cite web|url=http://ghazipur.nic.in/placeofinterest.htm |title=Places of Interest of District Ghazipur |publisher=Ghazipur.nic.in |access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref> However some sources state that the original name was Gadhipur.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/place/Ghazipur-India</ref>

A 30 ft. high Ashoka Pillar is situated in Latiya, a village 30 km away from the ghazipur city near Zamania Tehsil is a symbol of Mauryan Empire. It was declared a monument of national importance and protected by the archeological survey of India.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_alphalist_uttarpradesh_patna.asp |title=Archived copy |access-date=3 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508064601/http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_alphalist_uttarpradesh_patna.asp |archive-date=8 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the report of tours in that area of 1871–72 [[Sir Alexander Cunningham]] wrote, "The village receives its name from a stone lat, or monolith".<ref>http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/p/019pho000001003u00683000.html</ref>

==First in India==
The first Scientific Society of India was established first in Ghazipur in 1862 by [[Sir Syed Ahmed Khan]] for propagating modern Western knowledge of science, technology and industry. It was a departure from the past in the sense that education made a paradigm shift from traditional humanities and related disciplines to the new field of science and agriculture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sirsyedtoday.org/books/?cid=33 |title=Sir Syed Ahmad Khan | Books |publisher=Sirsyedtoday.org |access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref> Some current institution like Technical Education and Research Institute (TERI),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://teripgc.com/about_us.html |title=Technical Education & Research Institute |publisher=Teripgc.com |access-date=8 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409202046/http://www.teripgc.com/about_us.html |archive-date=9 April 2012}}</ref> part of post-graduate college [[PG College Ghazipur]], in the city, takes their inspiration from that first Society.

==Geography==
Ghazipur is located at {{Coord|25.58|N|83.57|E|}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/36/Ghazipur.html |title=Falling Rain Genomics, Inc – Ghazipur |publisher=Fallingrain.com |access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref> It has an average elevation of 62 metres (203 feet).

Rivers in the district include the [[Ganges]], [[Gomti River|Gomati]], [[Gaangi]], Beson, [[Magai]], [[Bhainsai]], [[Tons River|Tons]] and [[Karmanasa River]].

==Demographics==

{{see also|List of cities in Uttar Pradesh}}

{{As of|2011}} India census,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-date=16 June 2004|title= Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|access-date=1 November 2008|publisher= Census Commission of India}}</ref> Ghazipur city had a population of 231607, out of which males were 121467 and females were 110140 Males constituted 52.445% of the population and females constituted 47.554% of the population. Ghazipur has an average literacy rate of 85.46% (higher than the national average of 74.04%) of which male literacy is 90.61% and female literacy is 79.79%. 11.46% of the population is under 6 years of age and the sex ratio is 904.<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title="Urban Agglomerations/Cities having population 1 lakh and above"|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/India2/Table_3_PR_UA_Citiees_1Lakh_and_Above.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=2011 Census of India|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=2011 Census of India|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref>

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==Places of interest==
Sights in the city include several monuments built by [[Nawab Sheikh Abdullah|Nawab Sheikh Abdulla]], or Abdullah Khan, a governor of Ghazipur during the [[Mughal Empire]] in the eighteenth century, and his son. These include the palace known as Chihal Satun, or "forty pillars", which retains a very impressive gateway although the palace is in ruins, and the large garden with a [[Temple tank|tank]] and a tomb called the Nawab-ki-Chahar-diwari.<ref name="PlacesOfInterest" /><ref name="Hunter">{{cite book |last = Hunter | first = William Wilson | author-link = William Wilson Hunter | year = 1908 | title = The Imperial Gazetteer of India | volume = XII | publisher = Clarendon Press | place = Oxford | pages = 230–231}}</ref> The road that starts at the Nawab-ki-Chahar-diwari tomb and runs past the mosque leads, after 10 km, to a [[matha]] devoted to [[Pavhari Baba]].<ref name="PlacesOfInterest" /> The tank and tomb of Pahar Khan, [[faujdar]] of the city in 1580, and the plain but ancient tombs of the founder, Masud, and his son are also in Ghazipur, as is the tomb of [[Lord Cornwallis]], one of the major figures of Indian and British history.<ref name="Fuhrer">{{cite book |last = Führer | first = Alois Anton | author-link = Anton Alois Führer | year = 1891 | title = Archaeological Survey of India: The Monumental Antiquities and Inscriptions in the North-Western Province and Oudh | volume = XII | publisher = Superintendent, Government Press | place = Allahabad | page = 231}}</ref>
Cornwallis is famous for his role in the [[American Revolutionary War]], and then for [[Cornwallis in India|his time as Governor-General of India]], being said to have laid the true foundation of British rule. He was later Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, there suppressing the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|1798 Rebellion]] and establishing the [[Acts of Union 1800|Act of Union]]. He died in Ghazipur in 1805, soon after his returning to India for his second appointment as Governor-General. His tomb, overlooking the Ganges, is a heavy dome supported on 12 Doric columns above a cenotaph carved by [[John Flaxman]].<ref name="Hunter" /> The remains of an ancient mud fort also overlook the river, while there are [[ghat]]s leading to the Ganges, the oldest of which is the ChitNath Ghat.<ref name="PlacesOfInterest" /><ref name="Fuhrer" />
Close to ChitNath Ghat, [[Pavhari Baba]] ashram<ref>https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/ghazipur/51539279751-ghazipur-news</ref> is a place of interest for [[Swami Vivekananda]] followers. This ashram is further from the original [[Pavhari Baba]] underground [[hermitage (religious retreat)|hermitage]] caves, and is somewhat less explored by tourists. Those are the caves where [[Pavhari Baba]], whom [[Swami Vivekananda]] considered only 2nd to his guru Ramkrishna,<ref>https://www.yousigma.com/biographies/CompleteWorksOfSwamiVivekanandaVolume9.pdf</ref> used to meditate, sometimes, as the folklores go, feeding only on air (hence the name Pavhari Baba).

===Ghazipur opium factory===
The opium factory located in the city was established by the British and continues to be a major source of opium production in India. It is known as the Opium Factory Ghazipur or, more formally, the Government [[Opium and Alkaloid Works]]. It is the largest factory of its kind in the country and indeed the world.<ref name="ghosh">{{cite news|work=[[BBC News]]|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7460682.stm|title=Opium financed British rule in India (interview with Amitav Ghosh)|date=23 June 2008|access-date=26 March 2013}}</ref> The factory was initially run by the [[East India Company]] and was used by the British during the [[First Opium War|First]] and [[Second Opium War]]s with China.<ref name="Paxman" /> The factory as such was founded in 1820 though the British had been trading Ghazipur opium before that. Nowadays its output is entirely above board, controlled legally by the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Act and Rules (1985) and administratively by the Indian government [[Ministry of Finance (India)|Ministry of Finance]], overseen by a committee and a [[Indian Civil Accounts Service|Chief Controller]].<ref name="bihartimes">{{cite news|url=http://www.bihartimes.in/articles/amarnath/opium.html |title=A Visit to Gazipur Factory...A sea of surprise |work=[[Bihar Times]] |access-date=26 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130325064212/http://www.bihartimes.in/articles/amarnath/opium.html |archive-date=25 March 2013}}</ref> The factory's output serves the global pharmaceutical industry. Until 1943 the factory only produced raw opium extracts from [[Poppy (flower)|poppies]], but nowadays it also produces many alkaloids, having first begun alkaloid production during World War II to meet military medical needs.<ref name="bihartimes" /> Its annual turnover is in the region of 2 billion rupees (approximately 36 or 37 million US dollars), for a profit of about 80 million rupees (1.5 million dollars).<ref name="bihartimes" /> It has been profitable every year since 1820, but the alkaloid production currently makes a loss, while the opium production makes a profit. The typical annual opium export from the factory to the US, for example, would be about 360 tonnes of opium.<ref name="bihartimes" />
As well as the opium and alkaloid production, the factory also has a significant R&D program, employing up to 50 research chemists.<ref name="bihartimes" /> It also serves the unusual role of being the secure repository for illegal opium seizures in India—and correspondingly, an important office of the [[Narcotics Control Bureau]] of India is located in Ghazipur.<ref name="bihartimes" /> Overall employment in the factory is about 900. Because it is a government industry, the factory is administrated from New Delhi but a general manager oversees operations in Ghazipur.<ref name="bihartimes" />
In keeping with the sensitive nature of its production, the factory is guarded under high security (by the [[Central Industrial Security Force]]), and not easily accessible to the general public.<ref name="bihartimes" /> The factory has its own residential accommodation for its employees, and is situated across the banks of river Ganges from the main city of Ghazipur. It is surrounded by high walls topped with barbed wire. Its products are taken by high security rail to Mumbai or New Delhi for further export.<ref name="bihartimes" />

The factory covers about 43 acres and much of its architecture is in red brick, dating from colonial times. Within the grounds of the factory there is a temple to [[Baba Shyam]] and a [[Mazar (mausoleum)|mazar]], both said to predate the factory.<ref name="bihartimes" /> There is also a solar clock, installed by the British opium agent Hopkins Esor from 1911 to 1913.<ref name="bihartimes" /> [[Rudyard Kipling]], who was familiar with opium both medicinally and recreationally,<ref name=kipling>{{cite web|url=http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_opium1.htm|access-date=26 March 2013|title=In an Opium Factory|first=David|last=Page|date = 5 July 2008|publisher=The New Readers' Guide to the works of Rudyard Kipling|editor=John Radcliffe}}</ref> visited the Ghazipur factory in 1888 and published a description of its workings in ''[[The Pioneer (India)|The Pioneer]]'' on 16 April 1888.<ref name="kipling" /> The text, ''In an Opium Factory'' is freely available from Adelaide University's ebook library.<ref name=adelaide>{{cite web|url=http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/opium/|publisher=eBooks@Adelaide, The University of Adelaide|date=21 October 2012|access-date=26 March 2013|first=Rudyard|last=Kipling|title=In an Opium Factory|editor=Steve Thomas}}</ref>

[[Amitav Ghosh]]'s novel ''[[Sea of Poppies]]'' deals with the British opium trade in India and much of Ghosh's story is based on his research of the Ghazipur factory. In interview, Ghosh stresses how much of the wealth of the British Empire stemmed from the often unsavoury opium trade, with Ghazipur as one of its centers, but he is also amazed at the scale of the present-day operation.<ref name="ghosh" />

The Ghazipur Opium Factory may have one more claim to fame, for a rather unusual problem it has. It is infested with monkeys, but these are too narcotic-addled to be a real problem and workers drag them out of the way by their tails.<ref name="Paxman" /><ref name="ghosh" /><ref name="photoessay">{{cite book|first=Pablo|last=Bartholomew|title=Photo Essay on Cultivation of Opium in India|chapter=The Opium Trail|publisher=The Indian Economy Overview}}</ref>

==Climate==
{{Weather box
| location = Ghazipur (1981–2010, extremes 1978–2012)
| metric first = yes
| single line = yes
| Jan record high C = 30.6
| Feb record high C = 34.1
| Mar record high C = 40.1
| Apr record high C = 45.1
| May record high C = 46.1
| Jun record high C = 46.4
| Jul record high C = 43.2
| Aug record high C = 37.2
| Sep record high C = 37.6
| Oct record high C = 36.0
| Nov record high C = 34.0
| Dec record high C = 30.8
|year record high C = 46.4
| Jan high C = 21.4
| Feb high C = 25.4
| Mar high C = 31.5
| Apr high C = 37.6
| May high C = 38.7
| Jun high C = 37.0
| Jul high C = 33.0
| Aug high C = 32.3
| Sep high C = 31.9
| Oct high C = 30.9
| Nov high C = 27.6
| Dec high C = 23.4
|year high C = 30.9
| Jan low C = 7.2
| Feb low C = 10.0
| Mar low C = 14.2
| Apr low C = 19.8
| May low C = 23.5
| Jun low C = 25.0
| Jul low C = 24.4
| Aug low C = 24.1
| Sep low C = 23.2
| Oct low C = 19.0
| Nov low C = 13.0
| Dec low C = 8.6
|year low C = 17.7
| Jan record low C = -0.5
| Feb record low C = 3.5
| Mar record low C = 6.2
| Apr record low C = 11.0
| May record low C = 16.0
| Jun record low C = 19.5
| Jul record low C = 20.0
| Aug record low C = 19.0
| Sep record low C = 18.2
| Oct record low C = 10.0
| Nov record low C = 5.7
| Dec record low C = 1.5
|year record low C = -0.5
| rain colour = green
| Jan rain mm = 13.9
| Feb rain mm = 15.7
| Mar rain mm = 7.2
| Apr rain mm = 6.6
| May rain mm = 23.2
| Jun rain mm = 106.7
| Jul rain mm = 306.9
| Aug rain mm = 278.8
| Sep rain mm = 215.9
| Oct rain mm = 27.2
| Nov rain mm = 7.5
| Dec rain mm = 4.4
|year rain mm = 1014.1
| Jan rain days = 1.5
| Feb rain days = 1.3
| Mar rain days = 0.7
| Apr rain days = 0.5
| May rain days = 1.9
| Jun rain days = 6.0
| Jul rain days = 12.7
| Aug rain days = 12.3
| Sep rain days = 8.5
| Oct rain days = 1.9
| Nov rain days = 0.5
| Dec rain days = 0.4
|year rain days = 48.2
|time day = 17:30 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| Jan humidity = 69
| Feb humidity = 60
| Mar humidity = 43
| Apr humidity = 29
| May humidity = 37
| Jun humidity = 54
| Jul humidity = 76
| Aug humidity = 78
| Sep humidity = 78
| Oct humidity = 71
| Nov humidity = 66
| Dec humidity = 68
|year humidity = 61
|source 1 = [[India Meteorological Department]]<ref name=IMDnormals>
{{cite web
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200205040301/http://imdpune.gov.in/library/public/1981-2010%20CLIM%20NORMALS%20%28STATWISE%29.pdf
| archive-date = 5 February 2020
| url = https://imdpune.gov.in/library/public/1981-2010%20CLIM%20NORMALS%20%28STATWISE%29.pdf
| title = Station: Gazipur Climatological Table 1981–2010
| work = Climatological Normals 1981–2010
| publisher = India Meteorological Department
| date = January 2015
| pages = 287–288
| access-date = 6 May 2020}}</ref><ref name=IMDextremes>
{{cite web
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200205042509/http://imdpune.gov.in/library/public/EXTREMES%20OF%20TEMPERATURE%20and%20RAINFALL%20upto%202012.pdf
| archive-date = 5 February 2020
| url = https://imdpune.gov.in/library/public/EXTREMES%20OF%20TEMPERATURE%20and%20RAINFALL%20upto%202012.pdf
| title = Extremes of Temperature & Rainfall for Indian Stations (Up to 2012)
| publisher = India Meteorological Department
| date = December 2016
| page = M215
| access-date = 6 May 2020}}</ref>
}}

==Transport==
[[Ghazipur Airport]] is situated in Ghazipur city. The airport is on the Ghazipur-Mau Road. [[Airports Authority of India]] (AAI) is the operator of this Airport.

==Notable people==


* [[Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed]], was [[Attorney General of Bangladesh]]
* [[Abbas Ansari]], shooter, Indian politician
* [[Afzal Ansari]], Indian politician, Member of Parliament 2004–2009, 2019–
* [[Mukhtar Ansari]], Indian politician, 5 times MLA from Mau sadar
* [[Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari]], [[freedom fighter]]
* [[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis|Lord Cornwallis]], colonial administrator of North America, Ireland, and India died here
* [[Abdul Hamid (soldier)|Abdul Hamid]], recipient of [[Param Veer Chakra]], India's highest military award.
* [[Nazir Hussain]], Bollywood actor and father of Bhojpuri cinema
* [[Shrawan Kumar]], mathematics professor at [[University of North Carolina]] at Chapel Hill
* [[Khan Shein Kunwar]], short story writer and businessman
* [[George Marten (cricketer, born 1840)|George Marten]], cricketer
* [[Kalraj Mishra]] Governor of Rajasthan
* [[Mahendra Nath Pandey]], Member of Parliament, Minister for Skills Development
* [[Mangal Pandey]], first hero sepoy, who raised the spark of freedom in India
* [[Sarjoo Pandey]], [[freedom fighter]]
* [[Yunus Parvez]], actor
* [[Dipendra Prasad]], mathematics professor at [[TIFR]] – Mumbai
* [[Gopal Prasad]], mathematics professor at [[University of Michigan]] at Ann Arbor
* [[Furqan Qamar]], professor, former Vice chancellor and advisor to Planning Commission (Education)
* [[Kuber Nath Rai]], writer and literary scholar
* [[Ram Bahadur Rai]], [[Padmashri]] recipient
* [[Shivpujan Rai]], freedom fighter, 1942
* [[Vinod Rai]], [[Padma Bhushan]] recipient
* [[Viveki Rai]], writer
* [[Moonis Raza]], Vice Chancellor Delhi University and Co. Founder & [[Rector (academia)|Rector]] [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]]<ref>http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=158713</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jnu.ac.in/JNUNewsArchives/JNUNewsJuly_Aug_2007/Alumni.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=8 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206203716/http://www.jnu.ac.in/JNUNewsArchives/JNUNewsJuly_Aug_2007/Alumni.htm |archive-date=6 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Rahi Masoom Raza]], author and poet<ref>http://www.abhivyakti-hindi.org/sansmaran/2001/meriyadon.htm</ref>
* [[Sahajanand Saraswati]], ascetic and leader
* [[Ram Badan Singh]], [[Padma Bhushan]] recipient
* [[Manoj Sinha]], [[Lieutenant Governor]] [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu & Kashmir]], Ex Member of Parliament, former State Minister of Communications and Minister of State for Railways in the Union Cabinet, Government of India<ref>https://www.indiatoday.in/manoj-sinha</ref>
* [[Dinesh Lal Yadav]], singer and actor



==See also==
* [[List of educational institutes in Ghazipur]]
* [[National Waterway 1 (India)]]

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