{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}} {{multiple issues| {{more citations needed|date=January 2021}} {{cleanup|reason=poor English; general clean-up also needed|date=May 2015}} }} {{Infobox settlement | name = Ujariyaon | native_name = | native_name_lang = | other_name = Ujariaon | nickname = | settlement_type = Mohalla | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_map = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = India Uttar Pradesh#India3 | pushpin_label_position = right | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India | coordinates = {{coord|26|52|N|81|0|E|display=inline,title}}<ref name="Gazetteer"/> | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|India}} | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Uttar Pradesh | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Lucknow | established_title = <!-- Established --> | established_date = | founder = | named_for = | government_type = | governing_body = | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_rank = | area_total_km2 = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_total = | population_as_of = | population_rank = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = | population_footnotes = | demographics_type1 = Languages | demographics1_title1 = Official | demographics1_info1 = Hindi | timezone1 = IST | utc_offset1 = +5:30 | postal_code_type = PIN | postal_code = | registration_plate = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Ujariyaon''', also spelled '''Ujariaon''', is a neighbourhood (mohalla) in Lucknow, in the Rajiv Gandhi 1st ward.<ref name="Ward list">{{cite web |title=Ward_suchna_english |url=https://lmc.up.nic.in/pdf/WARD_suchna_english.pdf |website=Lucknow Municipal Corporation |access-date=17 July 2021}}</ref> Once a separate village located 2 miles east of the city of Lucknow, Ujariyaon is located on the east bank of the Gomti River, between the smaller tributary streams the Kukrail and the Sahiri.<ref name="Gazetteer">{{cite book |last1=Nevill |first1=H.R. |title=Lucknow - A Gazetteer |date=1904 |publisher=Government Press |location=Allahabad |pages=266–7 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.48095 |access-date=17 July 2021}}</ref>
Ujariyaon is surrounded by Lohiya Park, Ambedkar Park, St. Joseph Hospital, Manoj Pandey Chauraha, Mithai wala Chauraha, electricity office. Gomti Nagar was developed on the land of Ujariyaon Zamindars; the government initially started this housing project as "Ujariyaon Awasiya Yojna"; the name was later changed to "Gomti Nagar awasiye yogna". Ujariyaon has one of the largest graveyards in Lucknow, called the Ganj Shaheeda, which has around 52 bighas of land and is registered as a Waqf property with the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board. Ganj Shaheeda also has a mosque at its centre called Masjid Ganj Shaheeda. Ujariyaon also has around 12 personal graveyards belonging to different Zamindar families . <ref>{{cite web |title= हिंदी खबर, Latest News in Hindi, हिंदी समाचार, ताजा खबर |url=https://www.patrika.com/lucknow-news/major-fire-in-ujariyaon-village-gomti-nagar-1287015/ |website=Patrika News |date=29 June 2014 |language=hindi}}</ref>
== Name and history == Ujariyaon is said to have been the site of an earlier Bhar village, which was conquered by a Muslim army led by two brothers named Abdullah and "the Turkoman", who were subjects of the Delhi Sultanate.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> The Bhar raja and the brother known as the Turkoman were both killed in the battle.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> The victorious Abdullah married the slain raja's daughter and settled down in the village, which he named '''Shahpur''', but just a few days later he and his followers were massacred by the former king's brother while praying during the Id festival.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> The only survivor was a woman named Ujali, who was living at her father's house in Bado Sarai (now in Barabanki district).<ref name="Gazetteer"/> Her son Ghias-ud-Din was then an infant; when he grew up, he went into service in the imperial army and led a campaign against Shahpur (which conveniently happened to fall on the day of Holi).<ref name="Gazetteer"/> He was successful, the (current) raja was killed, and Ghias-ud-Din had the village razed to the ground.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> He then re-founded it as '''Ujaliaon''' in honour of his mother Ujali, who had survived the previous massacre.<ref name="Gazetteer"/>
At the turn of the 20th century, the village of Ujariyaon lay 2 miles to the east of Lucknow.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> It was on the high ground overlooking the khadir land regularly inundated by the Gomti during floods, and during heavy rains was only accessible from the north.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> The upland area on which it lay was "a stretch of sandy, unproductive soil", broken up by ravines, that supposedly marks a former bank of the Gomti.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> Irrigation was provided by earthen wells as well as a tank to the north.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> Both the broad- and narrow-gauge railways to Bara Banki crossed the village lands.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> Ujariyaon's zamindars were Sheikhs who claimed descent from the village's founder, although at the time they were not very prosperous and had mortgaged the village to Nawab Jafar Ali Khan of Bijnaur.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> The village had one school and, as of the 1901 census, had a population of 2,933, including a Muslim population of 694.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> Most of the Hindu residents belonged to the Ahir community.The family of Nawab Mehdi Hasan Sahib also lives in Ujariyaon, who had two sons Javvad Hussain and Nawab Hussain<ref name="Gazetteer"/>
==References== {{reflist}} {{Lucknow district}}
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