History of Bareilly Essay

The region has, excessively, acted as a mint for a major p artistic production of its history. From archaeological pane of view the district of Bareilly is very rich. The extensive remains of Ahichhatra, the Capital town of Northern Panchala stool been notice near Ramnagar village of Aonla Tehsil in the district. It was during the first excavations at Ahichhatra (194044) that the painted grey ware, associated with the advent of the Aryans in Ganga Yamuna Valley, was recognized for the first time in the earliest levels of the site.Nearly five thousand coins belonging to periods earlier than that of Guptas have been yielded from Ahichhatra. It has also been one of the richest sites in India from the point of view of the total yield of terracotta. Some of the masterpieces of Indian terracotta art are from Ahichhatra. In fact the classification made of the terracotta human figurines from Ahichhatra on grounds of style and to several(prenominal) extent stratigraphy became a model fo r determining the stratigraphy of subsequent excavations at other sites in the Ganga Valley.On the understructure of the existing material, the archaeology of the region helps us to get an idea of the cultural sequence from the beginning of the second millennium BC up to the 11th c. AD. Some ancient mounds in the district have also been discovered by the Deptt. of Ancient History and culture, Rohilkhand University, at Tihar-Khera (Fatehganj West), Pachaumi, Rahtuia, Kadarganj and Sainthal. 2