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Rampur Raza LibraryविरासतRampur

Founded in 1774 by Nawab Faizullah Khan and now an institution of national importance, holding tens of thousands of manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and Sanskrit, Mughal miniatures, and a seventh-century Quran fragment. Housed in the Hamid Manzil inside the fort.

Kothi Khas Bagh and the Rampur FortविरासतRampur

The Nawabs' palace complex — a large, half-forgotten early twentieth-century pile whose scale explains how much revenue a small state could concentrate.

Dargah-e-Ala Hazratतीर्थBareilly

The shrine of Ahmed Raza Khan, from whom the Barelvi school of Sunni Islam takes its name. The annual urs draws lakhs of pilgrims from across South Asia and the diaspora, and the surrounding institutions are the school's organisational centre.

The Nath temples of Bareillyतीर्थBareilly

Seven Shiva temples — Alakhnath, Dhopeshwar Nath, Madhi Nath, Tapeshwar Nath, Trivati Nath, Banke Bihari and Pashupati Nath — which give the city its other name, Nath Nagri, and are circuited together by pilgrims.

AhichhatraविरासतBareilly

The capital of northern Panchala, an enormous fortified mound with terracottas and Painted Grey Ware layers, and a Jain pilgrimage site connected with Parshvanatha. One of the largest unexcavated ancient city sites in India.

Jama Masjid, BadaunविरासतBudaun

Built in 1223 under Iltutmish, among the oldest and largest surviving congregational mosques in India, and the marker of Badaun's period as a provincial capital of the Delhi Sultanate.

Dargah of Shah Wilayatतीर्थAmroha

A thirteenth-century shrine known for the scorpions in its precinct, which by long local account do not sting — visitors are handed one to hold. The urs draws pilgrims from across western Uttar Pradesh.

Pilibhit Tiger Reserveवन्यजीवPilibhit

A narrow strip of terai sal forest and grassland along the Sharda, with one of the highest tiger densities in the country for its size and a documented record of doubling its population. Part of the transboundary landscape shared with Nepal.

सबसे अच्छा समय: November–June.

Tharu villages of the Khatima and Chandan Chowki beltविरासतUdham Singh Nagar, Lakhimpur border

Mud-and-thatch villages with painted walls and raised granaries, where the Tharu Barka Nach is performed in winter. Visited respectfully and by arrangement rather than as a stop on a circuit.

Govind Ballabh Pant University, PantnagarविरासतUdham Singh Nagar

India's first agricultural university, founded in 1960 on reclaimed terai land, and the institution where the Green Revolution's wheat and rice varieties were tested and multiplied for the northern plain.

Moradabad brass marketशहरीMoradabad

The Peeli Kothi and Bartan Bazaar area, where the whole chain from casting yard to export packer sits within a few streets. Worth walking through in the morning when the workshops are open.

Sambhal and Chandausi old townsविरासतSambhal

Two very old market towns with Sultanate-period fabric, horn and bone workshops, and a grain and sugar trade that predates the railway.

Kakori and Shahjahanpur revolutionary sitesविरासतShahjahanpur

The town that produced both Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla Khan, hanged in 1927 for the Kakori train action; memorials to both stand in the city.