Kaimganj Town
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.
Kaimganj Town
Head-quarters of the tahsil of the same name in Farrukhabad District, United Provinces, situated in 27 degree 30' N. and 79 degree 21' E., on the Cawnpore-Achhnera Railway, and also at the ter- minus of a metalled road from Farrukhabad city. Population (1901), 10,369. It was founded in 17 13 by Muhammad Khan, first Nawab of Farrukhabad, who named it after his son, Kaim Khan. It is the centre of a group of villages inhabited by a colony of Pathans who settled here early in the seventeenth century. The best known of these villages is Mau Rashldabad, now a great tobacco field, about a mile north of Kaimganj. The Pathans of this neighbourhood are still noted for the number of men they supply to the native army. In 1857 the tahsil was ineffectually besieged for a time by a band of fugitive insurgents from Kalpi. The town consists chiefly of a wide metalled bazar, about a mile long, from which branch many narrow unmetalled lanes. It contains a tahsil, munsiji, and dispensary. Kaimganj is administered under Act XX of 1856, with an income of about Rs. 2,000. There is a considerable trade in tobacco, which is largely grown in the neigh- bourhood. The old manufacture of swords and matchlocks has dwindled down to a trade in ordinary knives and betel-nut cutters. The town school has 193 pupils, and three primary schools 63.
