Tuesday 5 June 2012

Kaimganj, also rendered as Qaimganj (Hindi: क़ायमगंज, Urdu: قائم گنج IPA: [qɛːmgəndʒ]), is a city in Farrukhabad district in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh. Qaimganj is connected to all the cites of north India by roads


Qaimganj is just 10 km away from the ancient city of Kampil on the left bank of great river Ganga in Farrukhabad district. Qaimganj was founded by Nawab Mohammad Khan Bangash in 1713 and named after his son Qaim Khan, who was its first administrator of this town. The meaning of the word Ganj is market place.

This town is the birth place of Zakir Hussain who was the third President of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969, and the founder of Jamia Milia Islamia. It is also the birth place of the Pakistan Army's General Rahimuddin Khan, who was also Balochistan's longest-serving governor. Ghulam Rabbani Khan TAANBA a well known poet. 

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