Charthaval

Charthaval
city
Charthaval 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)

Charthaval or 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] Charthaval had a population of 31,493. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Charthaval 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 Charthaval, few names are given below

1. Chendra 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. Nalanda Public School
10. Saraswati Vidhya Mandir
11. Gandhi Shishu Niketan
12. Bal Vidhya Mandir
13. Adarsh Public School
14. Primary School

Religion

Both Muslim and Hindu religions are found in Charthaval. There are 65% percent Muslims out of the 40,000 population of the town.Majority of population belongs to Muslim Tyagi,which comprises roughly 55-60% of total 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 350 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 Charthaval via Rohana village.

There are two 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.

On the Muzaffarnagar road there is a temple of Bhairo wherein many Hindus go for worship every day. During the expansion of the temple some place besides was donated by Hakim Sadaruddin the famous Raees and Zamindar of Charthaval in the late 18th century.

Business

There are four sugar cane crusher and Sugar Cane Small scale plant (Kolhu) which produce Jagerry (Gurh in urdu/hindi) producer after processing sugar cane juice in Charhtaval. They start their production from Oct. to May and get a hundred million business in the season. Bajaj Hindusthan Limited[[.^[2]]], Titawi sugar mill ^[3] and Rohana Sugar Refinery are around the Charthaval.

Charthaval is also famous for wholesale market of wood. There are more than 10 whole sale shop aadhat for wood sale. They purchase the wood of Eucalyptus, Poplar and different type of wood from farmers and sale it to the plywood industries. The turnover of the wood market of Charthaval is around two million Indian Rupees per day.

Villages

There are 67 villages in block Charthaval. Some villages are having 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 30000 people is being considered to be turned into town.

Literature

Maulana Mushtaq Ahmad, a great scholar in early 19th century also belonged to Charthaval. He had contributed a lot in Islamic literature by writing many books in urdu, Persian 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 spocken and government relation. Hakim Mohammad Umar, another great sufi and scholar in early 18th century, was also from Charthaval. He wrote some books in Persian poetry. One of them is available named as Noor uz Zaman ir (نورازمأر), which got published by his son Hakim Sadaruddin in 1902. In which he praised to all the 99 Names of Allah^[4](Asma-e-Husnat) with the description of his personal reciting experience (hikayatain) with each name of Allah.

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