"Brij Bhoomi" redirects here. For the 1982 film, see Brij Bhoomi (film).
Region in India
Braj
Region
top to bottom: Radha Krishna at Kirti Temple, Barsana,
Krishna Janmasthan in Mathura, Radha Rani Temple in Barsana, Prem Mandir in Vrindavan and Kusum Sarovar in Govardhan Hill.
Country
India
Region
Northern India
Proposed capitals
Noida, Agra
Proposed Districts
List
Mathura district
Agra district
Hathras district
Firozabad district
Aligarh district
Kasganj district
Bharatpur district
Karauli district
Morena district
Dholpur district
Faridabad district
Palwal district
Badaun district
Farrukhabad district
Etah district
Language
Braj Bhasha dialect of Hindi
Braj, also known as Vraj, Vraja, Brij or Brijbhumi, is a region in India on both sides of the Yamuna river with its centre at Mathura-Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh state encompassing the area which also includes Palwal, Ballabhgarh and Nuh in Haryana state, Deeg, Bharatpur, Karauli, and Dholpur in Rajasthan state and Morena District in Madhya Pradesh.[1] Within Uttar Pradesh, it is very well demarcated culturally, the area stretches from the Mathura, Aligarh, Agra, Hathras and districts up to the Farrukhabad, Mainpuri and Etah districts.[2] Braj region is associated with Radha and Krishna who according to scriptures were born in Barsana and Mathura respectively.[3][4] It is the main centre of Krishna circuit of Hindu pilgrimage.[1]
It is located 150 km south of Delhi and 50 km northwest of Agra.[1]
Ecologically, the character of Braj has drastically changed in the last 200 years, with a heavy decline in the amount of wild animals along with deforestation. Writing in the late 1980s, Entwistle noted there were only a few groves left in the region, and that many sacred sites were being encroached upon by human agricultural settlements.[5]
^ abcJanet Cochrane, 2008, Asian Tourism: Growth and Change, page 249.
^Lucia Michelutti (2002). "Sons of Krishna: the politics of Yadav community formation in a North Indian town" (PDF). PhD Thesis Social Anthropology. London School of Economics and Political Science University of London. p. 49. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
^Lynch, Owen M. (31 December 1990), "ONE. The Social Construction of Emotion in India", Divine Passions, University of California Press, pp. 3–34, doi:10.1525/9780520309753-002, ISBN 978-0-520-30975-3
^Cite error: The named reference Lucia Michelutti00 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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