Sardhana

Sardhana is a town and a municipal board in Meerut district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Sardhana is famous for its cloth industry and Church. Being close to Hastinapur, which is also in Meerut district, the capital of Kauravas of Mahabharata, Sardhana is also known for the ancient Mahadev Temple that is believed to be dating from the Mahabharata period. It was here that the Pandavas prayed before leaving for the Lakshagrah, the notorious palace made of lac by Duryodhana, at the confluence of the Hindon and Krishna rivers (Kali River, Kali Nadi). This palace was located at Varnavrat, the present Barnava, where the prince resided with their mother Kunti.

Baba Augharh Nath Temple It is devoted to Lord Shiva. It is said that the spark of the first war of independence in 1857 started from here as soldiers of the Kali Paltan, a part of the then Imperial British Army often came to quench their thirst from a well in the temple premises. Shaheed Smarak is devoted to martyrs associated with the first war for freedom in 1857. Victoria Park of this park was situated the jail where those 85 soldiers were kept under imprisonment who had refused to use th