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Gurgaon is a geographically a semi-arid area. Thus it was historically supporting only a mix of 3 kinds of occupations in the peripheral villages of the Gurgaon town. Its proximity to the Aravalli’s, meant that stone crushing was a natural occupations of the residents. Cattle rearing and agriculture were the other two works that the people were involved with. Thus the typology of the residential unit was heavily influenced by this fact. The climate along with the nature of land that is not very rich due to its proximity to desert since the historical past has always ensured the growth of only limited crops such as Sorghum, Pearl millet and Chickpea and cattle rearing. The rainfall in the district increases from the west towards the east, and …show more content…
The region was finally subdued after the defeat of Prithviraj Chauhan (Chahamana) by Muzz-ud-din Mohammad Ghori in A.D. 1192. The next instance of historical significance of Gurgaon comes in the writings of the 13th century Turkish traveller, Ibn Batuta. He mentioned the existence of some structures of Islamic importance at a place near Delhi, on the way to Ajmer. Gurgaon has been a part of the caravan route that linked Delhi to Ajmer through Jaipur and was an important trading junction for commodities in the arid belt south of Delhi. Thus, during the medieval phase Gurgaon has been under the control of a succession of rulers appointed by the ruling power in Delhi including Yaduvansi-Rajput and Muslims and later Mughals in this order. During the end of medieval phase, for a few years Farrukhnagar (a part of Gurgaon district) was taken from the Muslim Nawab, and Ghasera (also a part of Gurgaon district) from the BadGoojar Rajput Rao Bahadur Singh by Raja Surajmal, a Jat ruler of Bharatpur Kingdom in 1753 and held till 1763. Rewari was under Khoro clan heir rulers. During the Medieval period, Gurgaon was ruled by Muslim rulers and towards the end by Jat rulers and the Maratha rulers. Due to this continuous change of power, this has led to the presence of Jats and Muslims in Gurgaon’s population by the end of the Medieval …show more content…
It took control of Gurgaon through a treaty signed by Surji Arjungaon in the end of the year 1803. The Gurgaon district, with other possessions of Sindhia, west of the Yamuna, passed on to the British East India Company by the Treaty of Surji Arjungaon signed on December 30, 1803. The town of Gurgaon became the headquarters of the administration in1816. By the mid-19th century, Gurgaon was part of the princely protectorate of Pataudi which is part of Gurgaon district today. By 1857, the life in the district seemed to have settled down to a peaceful and quiet routine. The feudatory races had betaken themselves to agriculture, the higher castes to trade and British service. The old feuds, if not extinct, were at least dormant. When in May 1857 the freedom fighters from Meerut entered Delhi, W.Ford of the Bengal Civil Service, was the Collector and the District Magistrate of Gurgaon. The proximity of the district to the imperial capital was to play a major role in shaping its destiny. Its chiefs and people, especially the former, threw in their lot with the representative of the House of Timur. Its destiny was thus linked with that of

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