Hathras

Hathras is a city and a municipal board in Hathras Block Hathras Tehsil in Hathras District in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of the Hathras district.

The Hathras district,known as Mahamaya Nagar, was created in 1997 by incorporating parts of the Aligarh, Mathura and Agra districts. It was given the alternative name Hathras district shortly after.

Hathras lies within the Brij region, associated with the epic Mahabharata and Hindu mythology. The principal spoken language is Hindi, whose dialect Brijbhasha is spoken in this region.HATHRAS, a town of British India, in the Aligarh district of the United Provinces, 29 m. N. of Agra. Pop. (1901), 42,578. At the end of the 18th century it was held by a Jat chieftain Indrajeet Singh Thainua, whose ruined fort still stands at the east end of the town (known as Quila, also broad gauge railway station: hathras Quila), and was annexed by the British in 1803, but insubordination on the part of the chief necessitated the siege of the fort in 1817. Indrajeet Singh Thainua's descendants currently resides at a village called Pilkhuniya. Sarpanch Gulab Singh, grand grand son of Indrajeet Singh is the leading man in this village.

Since it came under British rule, Hathras has rapidly risen to commercial importance. Hathras is connected by a light railway with Mathura, and by a branch with Hathras junction, on the East Indian main line. While the history of the city dates back to ancient times, it also appears that there was an ancient fort in Hathras at the site of the ruins of the modern day fort. There are traces of ancient Jain sculptures also in Hathras.