Bareilly
District headquarters, 1801–1947
بریلیबरेलीबरेली शरीफ
Today Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India. Same place, same name.
Key facts
- Historical name
- Bareilly
- Type
- District headquarters
- Coordinates
- 28.3640° N, 79.4150° E(seed dataset)
- Governance
- Directly administered
- Record confidence
- High confidence
- Identifiers
- Q213026
Directly administered by the Governor-General of India, and therefore part of British India in the statutory sense of the Interpretation Act 1889, s.18.
Location
Pin placed at the coordinates recorded for this place. Colonial-era boundaries are not drawn.
Description
District in the Bareilly or Rohilkhand Division of the United Provinces, and the chief city of Rohilkhand.
Historical notes
Capital of the Rohilla chiefs before 1774; rebel-held under Khan Bahadur Khan from 1857 until retaken in May 1858.
Administrative history
Administrative parenthood changed over time. Each row states the years it is recorded for, and the source it comes from.
| Years | Relation | Unit | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| from 1901 | Part of | United Provinces of Agra and OudhProvince · Directly administeredSnapshot from the 1901 census and the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31). End of the relationship not established; recorded as open rather than inferred. | High confidencesource |
| from 1901 | Part of | BareillyDistrict · Directly administeredSnapshot from the 1901 census and the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31). End of the relationship not established; recorded as open rather than inferred. | High confidencesource |
Recorded names
Every documented spelling and transliteration held for this place. The historical name is canonical; modern names redirect to it.
| Name | Script | Type | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bareilly | Latin | Historical English | — |
| Bareilly City | Latin | Alternative spelling | — |
| Bareily | Latin | Alternative spelling | — |
| Bareli | Latin | Alternative spelling | — |
| Bareli Sharif | Latin | Alternative spelling | — |
| بریلی | Arabic | Indigenous | — |
| बरेली | Devanagari | Indigenous | — |
| बरेली शरीफ | Devanagari | Indigenous | — |
Records and references
- Imperial Gazetteer of India
- Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31), Vol. 7 (7), p. 2
Sources
- Encyclopedia· generalCC BY-SA
Wikipedia: Bareilly, Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0
Retrieved 2026-08-29
- Database· identityCC0
Wikidata (Q213026), Wikimedia Foundation
Wikidata, CC0 1.0
Retrieved 2026-08-29
- Gazetteer· administrativeLicence unverified
Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago — the 1908–31 text is public domain, but DSAL's digital presentation states no licence; link-out only
Retrieved 2026-08-29
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