Shree Mahavir Courier Branches in Saharanpur

About Saharanpur — A Brief History

Saharanpur sits in the far north-western corner of UP, just south of the Shivalik foothills where the state runs into Haryana, Himachal and Uttarakhand. The town gets its name from a Sufi saint called Shah Haroon Chishti, who is said to have settled here in the fourteenth century, and the town centre still has his dargah and several Mughal-era mosques. The Saharanpur Botanical Garden, set up in 1750 by the Mughals, is one of the oldest in India.

Saharanpur is famous across India and abroad for its wood-carving cluster. The town has been making intricately carved sheesham (rosewood) furniture, decorative panels and architectural details for over four hundred years, and the Saharanpur wood handicrafts industry today employs more than a hundred thousand people and exports to over a hundred countries. The carved wooden doors, jali-screens and writing boxes you see in heritage hotels across India most likely came from the Saharanpur cluster, and the town's GI tag protects the craft.

Beyond wood-carving, the local economy includes sugarcane (Saharanpur is one of the largest sugarcane belts in north India, with multiple cooperative sugar mills), mango orchards in the Sarsawa-Behat belt, and a paper-mill cluster. The town is well linked by the Delhi-Saharanpur-Dehradun railway and NH-344. Shree Mahavir Courier's Saharanpur branches handle a heavy daily flow of wood-craft export dispatch, mango-trade papers, sugar-mill mail and family parcels for the city and the smaller settlements like Deoband (famous for the Darul Uloom seminary), Gangoh, Behat and Nakur every working day, with strong seasonal spikes during the wood-export rush from August to December.