Uttar Pradesh "Northern Province"), UP, is a state located in northern India. It was created on 1 April 1937 as the United Provinces, and was renamed Uttar Pradesh in 1950. Lucknow is the capital and Kanpur is the commercial capital and the largest city of Uttar Pradesh. On 9 November 2000, a new state, Uttarakhand, was carved from the mountainous Himalayan region of Uttar Pradesh.
The state is bordered by Rajasthan to the west, Haryana and Delhi to the northwest, Uttarakhand and the country of Nepal to the north, Bihar to the east, Jharkhand to the southeast, Chhattisgarh to the south and Madhya Pradesh to the southwest.
General Facts
Kurukshetra in ancient times was situated between the two sacred rivers, Saraswati on the North and Drishadvati on the
South.
Bara Imambara built by Asaf-ud-Daula, Nawab of Lucknow, in 1784. It is also called the Asafi Imambara.Bara means big, and an imambara is a shrine built by Shia Muslims for the purpose of Azadari. The Bara Imambara is among the grandest buildings of Lucknow.
80 Seats to the lok sabha 404 seats to the vidhan sabha 8 out of 14 prime ministers have been
voted to power form this state Narendra modi, arvind kejriwal, Rahul
Gandhi are fighting lok sabha elections 2014 from uttar pradesh
POLITICAL ANALYSIS
2013 Muzaffarnagar riots Hashimpura massacre took place on 22 May
1987, during the Hindu-Muslim riots in Meerut city
On December 6, 1992, a large crowd of Hindu Karsevaks (volunteers) entirely destroyed the 16th-century Babri mosque in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh,India, in an attempt to reclaim the land known as Ram Janmabhoomi.
RIOTS AND TERROR ATTACKS
The 2006 Varanasi bombings were a series of bombings that occurred across the Hindu holy city of Varanasi on 7 March 2006. At least 28 people were killed and as many as 101 others were injured
In the afternoon of 23 November 2007, within a span of 25 minutes, six consecutive serial blasts occurred in the Lucknow, Varanasi, and Faizabad courts, in which 28 people were killed and several others injured
IIT BHU IIT Kanpur IIM Lucknow HBTI Kanpur Aligarh Muslim University(founded by sir
syed ahmed khan in 1875)
Educational Institutions