Hardwar

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Hardwar
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 29.960000°N, 78.160000‎°E
Altitude: 249.7 m (819 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Haridwar
State/Province: Uttarakhand
Country: India
Transport links
Hardwar-Dehra Railway
Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway

Hardwar, (later named Haridwar), is one of the seven holiest places to Hindus and a "Hindu place of pilgrimage, in the Saharanpur district of the United Provinces, on the right bank of the Ganges, 17 m. N.E. of Rurki." It was also the end-on junction between the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway and Hardwar-Dehra Railway.


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