Tilpat is a census towninFaridabad district in the IndianstateofHaryana that comes under the Capital Region. It is famous for the revolt against Mughals. It also has the Tilpat 1 & 2 ranges of Indian Air Force on the banks of Yamuna.[1] Tilpat is the largest village of Brahmins in Ballabgarh tehsil.[2] Brahmins are the majority and the largest zamindars (most lands belong to them), and other castes like Jats and Gurjars are sprinkled minority.[3][4]
As of 2001[update] India census,[5] Tilpat had a population of 6377. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Tilpat has an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 53%. In Tilpat, 18% of the population is under 6 years of age.
According to Hindu literature, Tilpat was one of the five villages demanded by the Pandavas for the sake of peace and to avert a disastrous war, Krishna proposed that if Hastinapura agreed to give the Pandavas only five villages named Indraprastha (Delhi), Svarnaprastha (Sonipat), Paniprastha (Panipat), Vyaghraprastha (Baghpat) and Tilaprastha (Tilpat), they would be satisfied and would make no more demands. Duryodhana vehemently refused, commenting that he would not part even with land as much as the point of a needle. This led to the Kurukshetra War, described in the Mahabharata.[6][7]
Tilpat is listed in the Ain-i-Akbari as a pargana under Delhi sarkar, producing a revenue of 3,077,913 dams for the imperial treasury and supplying a force of 400 infantry and 40 cavalry. It had a brick fort at the time which was also mentioned and was held by Brahmins, Rajputs and Gujars.[8]
^Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak; Jarrett, Henry Sullivan (translator) (1891). The Ain-i-Akbari. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 286. Retrieved 21 January 2021. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)
India
