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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 5, p. 73.

AGRA DISTRICT 73 Land revenue Area in Population, -and ce square miles. 1901. in thousands of rupees. Muttra . 1,445 763,099 17,57 Agra . . . 1,845 1,060,528 19,75 Farrukhabad . . . i,685 925,812 14,31 Mainpuri . . ,675 829,357 14,45 Etawah 1,691 806,798 15,38 Etah . 1,737 863,948 13,76 Total Io,078 5,249,542 95,22 The Districts of Muttra, Agra, and Etawah lie on both sides of the Jumna, and a small portion of Farrukhabad extends east of the Ganges, while Etah and Mainpuri are situated entirely in the Doab. The Division contains 62 towns and 8,043 villages. The largest towns are AGRA (population, I88,022 with cantonments), FARRUKHABAD (67,338 with Fatehgarh and cantonments), MUTTRA (60,042 with cantonments), ETAWAH (42,570), and BRINDABAN (22,717). The chief places of commercial importance are Agra, Farrukhabad, and Mainpuri. Muttra and Brindaban are important centres of Vaishnava religion, being con- nected with the life of Krishna, the eighth incarnation of Vishnu. KANAUJ was the chief town of several great dynasties in Northern India before the Muhammadan invasion. Agra was the capital of the Mughal empire during the sixteenth and part of the seventeenth centuries, and successive emperors have left memorials of their rule in stone and marble which are unrivalled throughout India. Agra District.-District in the Division of the same name in the United Provinces, lying between 26° 45' and 27° 24' N. and 77° 26' and 780 5i' E., with an area of I,845 square miles. It is bounded on the north by Muttra and Etah, and on the east by Mainpuri and Etawah; on the south lie the Native States of Gwalior and Dholpur, and on the west Bharatpur. The District is divided into four distinct tracts by the rivers Jumna, Utangan or Banganga, and Chambal. North-east of the Jumna, which crosses the Phsical aspects. District with a very winding course from north-west to south-east, lie two tahsils with an upland area of productive loam, separated from the river by a network of ravines which are of little use except for grazing. Three smaller streams-the Jhirna (or Karon), Sirsa, and Sengar-cross this tract. The greater part of the District lies south- west of the Jumna and north of its tributary the Utangan. This tract is remarkable for the uniformity of its soil, which is generally a fertile loam, with little clay or sand. The ravines of the two great rivers, and of the Kharl Nadi, which flows into the Utangan, are the chief