a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, situated upon the western bank of the Calcerundy. It has been from ancient times a place of considerable consequence, and is mentioned amongst the early conquests of Mahmoud of Ghizni, in the year 1018. In 1399 it was taken and destroyed by Tamerlane. It was afterwards rebuilt, and when this part of the province came into the possession of the British, it was fixed upon as the capital of one of the districts into which the British possessions in the Doab of the Ganges and Jumna were subdivided. In 1809 it was made one of the principal military stations under the Bengal presidency; it is thirty-two miles N.E. from Delhi. Long. 77° 33'. E. Lat. 29° 1'. N.