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MATHURA A GAZETTEER,
edited and compiled by, D.L. DRAKE-BROCKMAN [1911]
DIRECTORY
FARAH, Tahsil MUTTRA
Farah lies not far from the right bank of the Jumna in 27° 19'N. and 77° 45' E., sixteen miles south of Muttra, on the metalled road to Agra. The town contains a police station, post-office, a small inspection house belonging to the district board, and an encamping-ground for troops. When it was the headquarters of a pargana, it also contained a tahsili school, but at the present time there is only a primary school for boys. Markets are held on Mondays and Fridays. The town was founded by Hamida Begam, the mother of Akbar. About 1555 A.D., during the exile of Humayun, it was the scene of a battle between Sikandar Shah, a nephew of Sher Shah, and Ibrahim Shah, in which the latter was defeated. After the sack of Ol in 1737 A.D., Suraj Mal removed the tahsil to Farah; and it is since this time that the town has been of importance. Eighty-four villages in the pargana of Farah, including the town, were detached from Agra and added to Muttra in 1879.
Farah has been administered under the provisions of Aet XX of 1856 since 1866. The income under the house assessment averages some Rs. 760 yearly and is expended in the usual way on the maintenance of extra police, a small conservancy staff and works of improvement in the town. The population in 1881 was returned at 3,642 persons, and this fell to 2,569 in 1891. At the last enumeration in 1901 the inhabitants num bered 2,795 of whom 1,302 were women. Classified according to religions there were 1,641 Hindus, 1,150 Musalmans and 4 others.
The town site is the property of the Government. There is a station called Farah close to the town on the Agra-Dehli Chord section of the Great Indian Peninsula railway; and the Village Sanitation Act (U. P. Act II of 1892) is in force.