Gorasara
human settlement in India
Gorasara is a village located in Dildarnagar Kamsar, Uttar Pradesh, India. Gorasara village was established by Zamindar Bhikham Khan Urf Feqan khan in 1650 AD, who was the grandson of Sarkar Diwan Kutlu Khan Zamindar Jagirdar Taluka Sewarai. Kutlu Khan was a great-grandson of Narhar Khan, founder of Dildarnagar Kamsar.
According to some old records and sources in the village, Mughal minister came to this place during the rule of the Mughal emperor Shahjahan rule and witnessed that all the people living in the village had white skin, which led to its name Goresara, A village of white people, later during the British rule due to wrong pronunciation the name was changed to Gorasara.
As of the 2011 Census of India, the main population of the village lived in an area of 87.5 acres of land with 637 households.
History
Gorasara is a village located in Dildarnagar Kamsar, Uttar Pradesh, India. Gorasara village was established by Bhikham Khan, son of Fateh Bahadur Khan, and great-great-grandson of Narhar Khan.
The place was of Kamsaar estate, actually Kamsar jagir already existed during the time of Narhar Khan founder of Kamsar and revenue was paid to Sur empire. But later during Mughals it was reestablished by Raja Quttul Khan a jagirdar of the pargana and Sarkar, and the divan of the subah, he build a fort here in early 1600s and dug a canal around it for security, during the time of later years of Akbar's rule. Still some parts of the canal can be seen around the village
During his time, Kamsaar jagir's main administrative centre was Seorai and Kuttul Khan was its governor.
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