a town of Hindustan, giving name to one of the districts subject to the jurisdiction of the lieutenant-governor of the N.W. provinces. The district is bounded on the N. by the Jaghire or feudal possession of Jujhur, and the British district of Delhi, on the E. by the River Jumna, on the S. by the native state of Bhurtpore, and on the W. by the territory of Tijarra. It lies between N. Lat. 27.40. to 28.30., E. Long. 76.21. to 77.35., and contains an area of 1989 sq. miles. The population, according to the census of 1853, amounts to 662,486, of whom 460,774 are Hindus, and 201,712 Mohammedans. The greater part of the district of Goorgaon passed to the British by the treaty of Serje Anjengum, dated 30th December 1803, by which Doulut Rao Scindia ceded to the East India Company his territories northward of those of the rajas of Jeypore and Joudpore, and of the Ranas of Gohud. Part of it, containing about 180 square miles, was held in Jaghire by the Kashmirian adventurer, Zebal Nissa, more generally known under the name of the Beegum Sumroo, and lapsed to the British on her death in 1836. Another portion of about 200 square miles, termed the Jaghire of Ferozepore, from its principal place, was held with Loharoo, by Shamsuddien Khan, who took it by descent from Ahmad Buksh Khan, to whom it had been granted by the British government early in the present century, on account of services rendered against the Mahrattas. Shamsuddien Khan having, with the view of defeating certain contemplated measures, which would have affected his Jaghire, caused the murder of Mr William Fraser, the British political agent at Delhi, he was hanged at that city in October 1835, and his Jaghire forfeited. Loharoo was, by the British government, bestowed on the offender's half-brothers, but the territory of Ferozepore was incorporated with the district of Goorgaon. The town of Goorgaon is in N. Lat. 28. 28., E. Long. 77. 5.