BAREILL K
146 cavalry. District.
Rohilkhand Military
Bareilly forms the head-quarters of the
The
population of the cantonments as distinguished from
the town population, consists of 10,257, namely, 6339 Hindus, 2272 Muhammadans, 1430 Christians, and 216 ‘others.’ The ordinary
regiment each of European and Native
a
includes
military
force
infantry,
a battery of Royal Artillery, and a regiment of Native cavalry,
the whole under the
command
of a Brigadier-General.
The
place was founded, according to tradition, about the year 1537, Bas Deo and Barel Deo, from the latter of whom it derives its
by name.
The Katheriyas
of Rohilkhand
(see
Bareilly District) had
long been carrying on a desultory warfare with the of Sambhal and Aonla
and the Mughal
Musalman governors
Imperialists found
it
neces-
sary to establish a strong outpost to the east of their previous frontier.
Troops were thus posted at Bareilly and round their encampment a city soon sprang up, whose irregular outline and mean architecture The town long remained still betrays its hasty and temporary origin. a mere military station, the last stronghold of the Mughals on their
extreme north-eastern
frontier.
governor, founded the
new
In 1657, RajaMakrand Rai, the
city of Bareilly, cut
west of the old town, and expelled
From 1660
all
down
Hindu
the forest to the
the Katheriyas from
its
precincts.
1707, the regular succession of Imperial governors at Bareilly continued without a break ; but in the last-named year, on to
the death of the
man
Emperor Aurangzeb, the Hindus threw
off the
Musal-
yoke, and began a series of internecine quarrels with their
own
co-religionists.
Their
dissensions
Muhammad Khan, been
fully related
gave
an
opportunity
for
chief of the Rohilla Pathins,
in
the
whose
the article on Bareilly District.
of
Ali
history
has
rise
For half a
century Bareilly remained the capital of the Rohilla race, until the
conquest of the country by the British forces on behalf of the Nawab Wazir of Oudh. From the Wazirs it passed to the British in 1801,
once the head-quarters of a Division and District. Muhammadan and Hindu population arose in 1816, 1837, and 1842, but our rule was never During that great seriously threatened until the Mutiny of 1857. struggle, Bareilly was the centre of disaffection for the whole of Rohilkhand. The troops rebelled on the 31st of May, and Khan Bahadur Khdn, a descendant of the Rohilla chieftains, was proclaimed governor. Most of the Europeans escaped to Naini Tal. After the fall of Lucknow, the Nawab of Fatehgarh, the Nana Sahib, Firoz Shah,
and became
at
Religious disturbances between the
and other leading
rebels,
took refuge in Bareilly.
On
the 5th of
May
army arrived before the town, and two days later the rebels fled into Oudh, and the English occupied Bareilly. In 1871, the peace of the town was again disturbed by riots, on the occasion of the 1858, the English
