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Aligarh division

division of India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ41276 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aligarh division is one of the 18 administrative geographical units (i.e. division) of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Aligarh city is the divisional headquarters.

This division consisted of all the districts of the lower Doab:-

Aligarh

Etah

Hathras

Kasganj

Education

Aligarh Muslim University is the premier educational institution in this area.

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“Aligarh division” enters the record as division of India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aligarh, division and India can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 53-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Aligarh, division and India.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q41276. Authority coordinates are 27.891, 78.076. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aligarh division” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.