Shree Mahavir Courier Branches in Aligarh

About Aligarh — A Brief History

Aligarh sits in western UP, on the road between Delhi and Kanpur, and is one of those cities whose history is much older than people guess. The town was called Kol or Koil for centuries, and was an important Rajput, Tomar and Mughal stronghold. The fort that gives the city its modern name Aligarh Fort, built by Mahar Singh Jat and later strengthened under the French general Perron fell to the British in 1803 in one of the key battles of the second Anglo-Maratha war. After the battle, the British made Aligarh the centre of a new district, and the name stuck.

Aligarh's biggest claim to fame is education. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan founded the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College here in 1875, which grew into the Aligarh Muslim University in 1920 and is today one of India's largest residential universities. The leafy AMU campus, with its red sandstone Sir Syed Hall, the Maulana Azad Library and the Strachey Hall, is the heart of the city. The Khwaja Garib Nawaz dargah and the Jama Masjid round out the older quarter.

The other thing Aligarh is famous for, all over India and abroad, is locks. The Aligarh lock cluster, going back to the late nineteenth century, makes more than three-quarters of the country's locks, padlocks and brass hardware, and exports them to over a hundred countries. The town is also a steady milk and zinc-die-cast belt. Shree Mahavir Courier's Aligarh branches handle the daily run of lock-trade dispatch, university mail and family parcels for the city and the smaller towns like Khair, Atrauli, Iglas and Gabhana every working day.