Hapur

Hapur is a city and the administrative headquarters of Hapur district in Uttar Pradesh, India, about 60 km east of New Delhi and part of the Delhi National Capital Region. National Highway 9 passes through the city and links it to Delhi. It is said to have been founded in the tenth century and is listed in the Ain-i-Akbari as a pargana under Delhi sarkar. At the end of the 18th century it was granted by Daulat Scindia to his French general Pierre Cuillier-Perron. Under the British Raj it lay in Meerut district and traded in sugar, jaggery, grain, cotton, timber, bamboo and brass and steel utensils, and local Gurjar zamindars took a large part in the 1857 Rebellion. Hapur became a separate district in 2012, stands at an average elevation of 213 metres and had 262,983 residents in 2011.