Awagarh

Awagarh Awaraj
Town
Awagarh Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 27°27′26″N 78°29′14″E / 27.45722°N 78.48722°E / 27.45722; 78.48722Coordinates: 27°27′26″N 78°29′14″E / 27.45722°N 78.48722°E / 27.45722; 78.48722
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Etah
Founded by	RAJA BALWANT SINGH
Population (2001)
• Total	10,766
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)

Awagarh is a historic town and a Nagar Panchayat in Etah district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. IT is 80 kilometers away from Agra. Jadon Rajputs had large Thikana. Raja Balwant Singh, a Jadon Rajput built a college named after him as Raja Balwant Singh College at Agra. He donated hundreds of acres of land to the college. He also helped Rabindra Nath Tagore to set up Shantiniketan.

Occupation

The main occupation of Awagarh is based on agriculture. Many nearby villages like gadanpur, mandpura, vasundhara,sehnaua, Veernagar, kuberpur etc. depends on Awagarh for their economy through agricultural products produced in these villages. Apart from agriculture,

Other main occupation is business of commodities.Famous lines of business here includes gold smith, jewelers, cloth merchant, sweets etc.

Cities and towns in Etah district

Etah	Aliganj Amanpur Awagarh Bhargain Bilram Etah Ganj Dundawara Jaithara Jalesar Marehra Mohanpur Nidhauli Kalan Patiyali Qadirganj Raja Ka Rampur Sahawar Sakit Sidhpura

Other districts	Agra Aligarh Allahabad Ambedkar Nagar Amethi Amroha Auraiya Azamgarh Badaun Bagpat Bahraich Ballia Balrampur Banda Barabanki Bareilly Basti Bhimnagar Bijnor Bulandshahr Chandauli Chitrakoot Deoria Etawah Faizabad Farrukhabad Fatehpur Firozabad Gautam Buddha Nagar Ghaziabad Ghazipur Gonda Gorakhpur Hamirpur Hardoi Hathras Jalaun Jaunpur Jhansi Kannauj Kanpur Nagar Kanshi Ram Nagar Khair City Kaushambi Kushinagar Lakhimpur Kheri Lalitpur Lucknow Maharajganj Mahoba Mainpuri Mathura Mau Meerut Mirzapur Moradabad Muzaffarnagar Panchsheel Nagar Pilibhit Prabuddhanagar Pratapgarh Raebareli Ramabai Nagar Rampur Saharanpur Sant Kabir Nagar Sant Ravidas Nagar Shahjahanpur Shravasti Siddharthnagar Sitapur Sonbhadra Sultanpur Unnao Varanasi

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