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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Gangoh
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| settlement_type = Town
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| pushpin_map = India Uttar Pradesh
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
| coordinates = {{coord|29.781|N|77.263|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Saharanpur district|Saharanpur]]
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| governing_body = municipality
| chairmen_muncipality = Noman Masood ([congress])
| unit_pref = Metric
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| elevation_m = 292
| population_total = 59279
| population_as_of = 2011
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| demographics_type1 = [[Language]]
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Hindi language|Hindi]]<ref name="langoff">{{cite web|title=52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India |url=http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf|website=nclm.nic.in|publisher=[[Ministry of Minority Affairs]]|accessdate=6 October 2019|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525141614/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf|archivedate=25 May 2017}}</ref>
| demographics1_title2 = Additional official
| demographics1_info2 = [[Urdu]]<ref name="langoff"/>
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 247 341
| registration_plate = UP-11
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'''Gangoh''' is a town and a [[municipal board]] in [[Saharanpur district]] in the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]].

==History==
[[File:Dargah Shriff of Hazrat Mamu Aalla Baksh & Mata Lado Rani.jpg|thumb|The Dargah Sharif of the great Sufi saints Mamu Allah Bakhsh and Mata Lado Rani]]
According to the 1911 British publication ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'':

{{quote|text=''The town [Gangoh] consists of an old and new quarter, the former founded by a legendary hero. [[Raja Gang]], from whom its name is derived, and the latter by the famous saint [[Shaikh Abdul Kuddus]], who gives his title to the western suburb, where his mausoleum stands, built by [[Humayun]] in 1537 and Molana Rasheed Ahmad Gangohi which was co-founder of madrasa darul-aloom Deuband and participated in war against East India Company under the flag of Haji Imdadullah Muhajir Makki. During [[The Sepoy Rebellion|the Mutiny]] Gangoh was frequently threatened by the rebel [[Gurjar]]s (Gujjars) under the self-styled Raja Fathua; but Mr. H. D. Robertson and Lieutenant Boisragon attacked and utterly defeated them towards the end of June, 1857. There are three old mosques, two of which were built by Akbar and Jahangir, besides a school and a dispensary. The town is liable to be flooded from a large swamp south of the site, but a scheme has been prepared to drain this. The streets are paved and most of them have brickwork drains. Gangoh is administered under Act XX of 1856, the income raised being about Rs. 3,000 a year. It is the cleanest and best kept of all the towns under Act XX in the District.''<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/imperialgazettee12greauoft/imperialgazettee12greauoft_djvu.txt The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. XII.] Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908.</ref>|author=Henry Frowde}}

Gangoh is listed in the [[Ain-i-Akbari]] as a [[pargana]] under Saharanpur [[sarkar (country subdivision)|sarkar]], producing a revenue of 2,029,032 [[dam (Indian coin)|dam]]s for the imperial treasury and supplying a force of 2000 infantry and 300 cavalry. A community of [[Turkoman (ethnonym)|Turkoman]]s is mentioned as living in the town at the time.<ref name="Ain-i-Akbari">{{cite book |last1=Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak |last2=Jarrett |first2=Henry Sullivan (translator) |title=The Ain-i-Akbari |date=1891 |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bengal |location=Calcutta |page=292 |url=https://archive.org/details/ainiakbarivolum00mubgoog |access-date=21 January 2021}}</ref>

==Demographics==
{{As of|2011}} India [[census]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=125512|title= Census of India 2011: Data from the 2011 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|accessdate=27 March 2017|publisher= Census Commission of India}}</ref> Gangoh had a population of 59,279. Males constitute 52.83% of the population and females 47.16%. Gangoh has an average literacy rate of 63.51%, lower than the national average of 74.04%.

== Notable people ==
* [[Abdul Quddus Gangohi]]
* [[Rashid Ahmad Gangohi]]
* [[Pradeep Kumar (politician)|Pradeep Kumar]], Indian politician and Member of Parliament

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V12_145.gif Gangoh in Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909]

{{Saharanpur district}}

[[Category:Cities and towns in Saharanpur district]]

Gangoh - Revision history

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