Charthaval

Charthawal चरथावल
Town
Charthawal Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 29°33′N 77°35′E / 29.550°N 77.583°E / 29.550; 77.583Coordinates: 29°33′N 77°35′E / 29.550°N 77.583°E / 29.550; 77.583
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Muzaffarnagar
Population (2001)
• Total	31,493
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)

Charthawal or चरथावल is a town and a nagar panchayat in Muzaffarnagar district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census,^[1] Charthawal had a population of 31,493. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Charthawal has an average literacy rate of 51%, lower than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 59% and female literacy of 42%. 19% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Education

There are many schools and colleges in Charthawal, few names are given below

1. Chandra Shekhar Azad Degree College
2. Maharaja Agrasen Girls Degree College
3. Gandhi Inter College
4. Jaihind Inter College
5. Abul Kalam Azad Inter College
6. Gandhi Balika High School
7. Arya Kanya Inter College
8. Kids Heaven Public School
9. Kids Heaven High School
10. Nalanda Public School
11. Saraswati Vidhya Mandir
12. Gandhi Shishu Niketan
13. Bal Vidhya Mandir
14. Adarsh Public High School
15. Primary School

Religion

Both Muslim and Hindu religions are found in Charthawal. There are 65% percent Muslims out of the 40,000 population of the town.The majority of the population belongs to Muslim Tyagi,which comprises roughly 55-60% of total Muslim population.

There are many mosques in the town but two are very old. One is situated at Sheikhzadgan Gharki(west) (غركى), known as Jama Masjid Tagayan, was supposed to be built by The Mughal emperor Nader Shah in the 17th century and other is situated in Sheikhzadgan Sharki(east) (شركى), was built in 360 years back, also known as Jama Masjid alias 'Amina Masjid' Sheikhzadgan (near Hakim Nazar Ahsan).

The world famous University of Islamic Studies Darul Uloom Deoband is just twenty km. away from Charthawal via Rohana village.

There are many Hindu temples:

Thakurdwara was built in the 13th century and later on in 1910 it was repaired by one of the wazir's family member of Mughal Emperor Shahjahan.There exist Sidhpeeth Devi Mandir on the top of Charthawal. At this, temple huge number of people worship in Navratri.There exist an old Bharo mandir in Murdapati Charthawal where people visits every Saturday and it is considered that every wish gets fulfilled if you visit there, Huge people visit there in the month of Asadh. There is a shiv mandir where exists a natural Shivling where a large number of peoples visit in Sawan.

Business

There are two sugar cane crusher and Sugar Cane Small-scale plant (Kolhu) which produce Jagerry (Gurh in urdu/hindi) after processing sugar cane juice in Charthawal. They start their production from Oct. to May and get a hundred million business in the season. Bajaj Hindusthan Limited[[.<ref>bajajhindustan.com</ref>]], Titawi sugar mill ^[2] and Rohana Sugar Refinery are around the town.

Charthawal is also famous for wholesale market of wood. There is more than 10 wholesale shop aadhat for wood sale. They purchase the wood of Eucalyptus, Poplar, Teak Sheesham and different types of wood from farmers and sell it to the plywood industries. The turnover of the wood market of Charthawal is between one and two million Indian Rupees per day.

Villages

There are 67 villages in block Charthawal. Some villages are having a big population as the villagers demand to the government to turn their village into town so that they can facilitate the infrastructure according to their need. Especially Kutesra village which has a population of 22000 people is being considered to be turned into a town.

Literature

Maulana Mushtaq Ahmad, a great scholar in early 19th century also belong to Charthawal. He had contributed a lot in Islamic literature by writing many books in urdu and Arabic. Some of them are the permanent part of the syllabus in the Islamic Madarsas of the Indian continental Countries .

Persian language in Mughal period was in use as spoken and government relation. Hakim Mohammad Umar, another great sufi and scholar and the Khalifa of Mian Ji Noor Jhinhanvi in early 18th century, was also from Charthawal. He wrote some books in Persian poetry. One of them is available named as Noor uz Zaman ir (نورالزمائر), which got published by his son Hakim Sadaruddin in 1902. In which he praised to all the 99 Names of Allah^[3] (Asma-e-Husnat)(اسم ال حسنات) with the description of his personal reciting experience (hikayatain) with each name of Allah.

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