Upper Doab

Upper Doab is a geographical and cultural region in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located between the rivers Ganga and Yamuna it is the northernmost part of the Yamuna Ganga doab.

The Upper doab contains the districts of Haridwar, Saharanpur, Muzzafarnagar, Shamli,Meerut,Bagpat,Ghaziabad, Hapur, Gautam Budh Nagar, Bulandshahr and Aligarh.

The geography of this region is flat, marred by irrigational canals and with heavy rainfall The total area of the region is 9173 sq miles

The Upper Doab region The Upper Doab region, and Western Uttar Pradesh as a whole were among the only places in India to benefit a lot from the Green Revolution in the 1960s The main crop grown in the Upper Doab is sugarcane the sale mechanisms of crops are different from the rest of India as opposed to the mandi system, the produce is brought directly by mills

In recent Years among the problems faced by the industry is the shrinkage of farm sizes due to high population and division of farm land, allotment of land to non agricultural use

The majority of the population of the region is Hindu with Muslims being a sizeable minority especially in Saharanpur

The primary dominant castes in the region are the Jats and Gurjars These two had carved out the region amongst themselves, the Jat dominated part of the Doab was called "Herat" while the Gurjar dominated area was called "Goojerat" the Rajputs are present in Eastern parts of Hapur and Bulandshahr where the Bargurjar clan is prominent , regions adjacent to the Braj region , where some of them were Zamindars second to the Gurjars and rose in revolt in along with the Gurjars in 1857

The languages spoken here are Urdu, Hindi and Gujari. The Khadiboli dialect is prominent here.

The economy of the Upper Doab has largely been agrian in nature, but in recent years service sector jobs have boomed in Noida, Ghaziabad is the largest industrial city in Uttar Pradesh employing around Five hundred forty thousand workers, real estate has also been a lucrative business in the region.