a large and populous city of Hindustan, and the capital of a district of the same name, is situated on the left bank of the Joodh, a tributary of the Ramgunga. It is a place of some importance with respect both to commerce and manufactures, and, according to the census taken in 1848, has a population of 92,208. The cantonment for the troops is at the south side of the town, and forms the headquarters for the military division of Rohilcund. Elevation of Bareilly above the sea, 470 feet. Distance from Delhi 152 miles, from Calcutta 788. Lat. 28° 22' Long. 79° 28'.

The district of Bareilly is bounded on the N. by Kumaon; on the E. by Oude and Shahjehanpore; on the S. by Budson, and on the W. by the native state of Rampore and the British district of Moradabad. Its principal rivers are the Gogra, the Western Ramgunga, the Gerrah, and the Goula. The area is 2937 square miles. There are only two cities in the district, viz. Bareilly and Pilleebheet; Aoulah, formerly a larger place than Bareilly, being now in ruins. According to official return, the population amounts to 1,143,657, of which number 883,795 are Hindus, and 259,862 Mahometans and others not Hindu. In summer, notwithstanding the high latitude of Bareilly, the heat is intense; but in winter, water sometimes freezes in the tents. After the devastation of Rohilcund in 1774 by Surajah Dowlah the vizier of Oude, aided by the British troops, the country became a complete waste. Subsequent disturbances called for the renewed interference of the British, and in 1796 the Rohillas were again defeated by the troops under the command of Sir Robert Abercrombie. These events resulted in the transfer of the district of Bareilly to the vizier, by whom in 1802 it was ceded to the East India Company, in commutation of the annual payment agreed to be made to the British government for the maintenance of a subsidiary military force.

The city of Bareilly was in 1816 the seat of a serious outbreak against the British government, which for a time threatened disastrous consequences. It originated in discontent created by certain fiscal arrangements, but was speedily converted by Mahometan fanaticism into a religious quarrel. It was however happily suppressed; but not without a conflict between the government troops and the insurgents, which was followed by the dispersion of the latter.