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Gorakhpur

District headquarters, 1801–1947

گورکھپورगोरखपुर

Today Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Same place, same name.

Key facts

Historical name
Gorakhpur
Type
District headquarters
Coordinates
26.7611° N, 83.3667° E(seed dataset)
Governance
Directly administered
Record confidence
Medium confidence
Identifiers
Q5584396

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

Divisional and district head-quarters on the Rapti in the eastern United Provinces, a major recruiting and emigration centre.

Historical notes

Chief source of indentured labour emigration from northern India and the site of the Chauri Chaura incident (1922) in its district, which prompted Gandhi to suspend non-cooperation.

Administrative history

Administrative parenthood changed over time. Each row states the years it is recorded for, and the source it comes from.

Administrative units this place is recorded under, by year
YearsRelationUnitConfidence
from 1901Part ofUnited 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.Medium confidencesource
from 1901Part ofGorakhpurDistrict · 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.Medium confidencesource

Recorded names

Every documented spelling and transliteration held for this place. The historical name is canonical; modern names redirect to it.

Name variants recorded for this place
NameScriptTypeYears
GorakhpurLatinHistorical English
Gorakhpur TownLatinAlternative spelling
گورکھپورArabicIndigenous
गोरखपुरDevanagariIndigenous

Records and references

Imperial Gazetteer of India
Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31), Vol. XII (12)

Sources

  1. Encyclopedia· generalCC BY-SA

    Wikipedia: Gorakhpur, Wikimedia Foundation

    Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0

    Retrieved 2026-08-29

  2. Database· identityCC0

    Wikidata (Q5584396), Wikimedia Foundation

    Wikidata, CC0 1.0

    Retrieved 2026-08-29

  3. Gazetteer· administrativeLicence unverified

    Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908–31), DSAL entry: Gorakhpur Town, University of Chicago / Digital South Asia Library

    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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