Ramgarh Town, Alwar
This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. |
Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Ramgarh Town 2
Head-quarters of a tahsil &t the same name in the State of Alwar, Rajputana, situated in 27 35' N. and 76 49' E., about 13 miles east of Alwar city. Population (1901), 5,179. The town possesses a post office, a vernacular school, and a hospital with accommodation for 6 in-patients. A municipal committee attends to the sanitation and lighting of the place, the average income, chiefly derived from octroi, and expenditure being about Rs. 1,900 yearly. The original settlers are said to have been Chamars, and the place was called Bhojpur after their leader, Bhoja. A Naruka Rajput, Padam Singh, received the village in jagir from Jaipur about 1746, made it piosperous, and built a fort ; but his son, Sarup Singh, came into collision with Pratap Singh, the first chief of Alwar, and was cruelly murdered, the town and tahsil passing into the possession of Alwar in 1777. Ramgarh is one of the central tahsts of the State, and is situated m MEW AT. It is made up of the head-quarters town and 119 villages ; and of the total population of 54,043, nearly 60 per cent are Musalmans.
