Yogananda at age sixYogananda was born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India to a devout family.

He returned to India in 1829, and was appointed revenue surveyor by Lord William Bentinck at Gorakhpur.

Leopold Amery was born in Gorakhpur, India to an English father and a Hungarian Jewish mother.

Karim Khan surrendered to the British and was given lands in Gorakhpur.

The second division, at Benares, under command of Major-General Wood, having subsequently removed to Gorakhpur, was meant to enter the hills by the Bhootnuill pass, and, turning to the eastward, to penetrate the hilly districts, towards Kathmandu, and cooperate with the first division, while its success would have divided the enemy's country and force into two parts, cutting off all the troops in Kumaon and Garhwal from communication with the capital.

His father, who was now posted at Gorakhpur, re-married, but Premchand received little affection from his step-mother.

He composed his first literary work at Gorakhpur, which was never published and is now lost.

In August 1916, Premchand was transferred to Gorakhpur on a promotion.

Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a Bengali family of the Kshatriya caste.

Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism, who was born at Kapilvastu in Nepal, renounced his princely clothing at the confluence of the rivers Rapti and Rohini, near Gorakhpur, before setting out on his quest of truth in 600 BCE.

Lord Mahavira was born at a place not very far from Gorakhpur.

Malla dynasty was following democratic way of governance from their Santhagara and thus Gorakhpur is also the part of ancient Gana sangha.

After the Iksvaku dynasty was conquered by Magadha's Nanda Dynasty in the 4th century BC, Gorakhpur became in turn part of the Maurya, Shunga, Kushana, Gupta and Harsha empires.

Gorakhpur was also birthplace of King Vikas Sankrityayan.

In the 12th century, the Gorakhpur region, as much of northern India, was conquered by the Muslim ruler Muhammad Ghori.

Gorakhpur district was the scene of the Chauri Chaura incident of February 4, 1922, which was a turning point in the history of India's freedom struggle.

After the verdict of Kakori conspiracy trial, prime accused of this case Ram Prasad Bismil was kept in the solitary cell of District jail ( Gorakhpur ) as a condemned prisoner.

He was executed in the jail on 19 December 1927 and was cremated at Rajghat on the bank of Rapti river in Gorakhpur.

Bhagat was born on 14 October 1918 in Gorakhpur, British India.

The new party was founded at a congress ( labelled the ' fifth congress ') in Gorakhpur, India.

Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, was born in Gorakhpur district of United Provinces ( present-day Uttar Pradesh ), on 3 September in 1940.

In Gorakhpur, where human fatalities were highest in summer, the reward for an adult wolf was 4 rupees, with 3 for a cub.

Shergill was born in a Sikh jat family in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

On 8 February 1921, he attended a meeting in Gorakhpur, where Mahatma Gandhi asked people to resign from government jobs as part of the non-cooperation movement.

Gorakhpur is a city in the eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, near the border with Nepal.

During the reign of Akbar and his successor the district formed a part of the Gorakhpur sarkar of the Awadh Subah.

The part played by the Basti in the Freedom Struggle of 1857 ( Indian Rebellion of 1857 ) is generally not ascribable exclusively ; as the district was still forming but an outlying portion of Gorakhpur, possessing no civil station of its own.

After capture of Gorakhpur by the English on January 5, 1858, the freedom fighter had moved west ward a form double entrenchment at Amorha in the south western part of the district, to obstruct the march of Rowcroft from Gorakhpur.

Deoria district is a part of Gorakhpur division.

This district is part of Gorakhpur Division.

In the early 16th century, the mystic poet and famous saint Kabir lived and worked in Maghar, a village 20 km from Gorakhpur, where his burial place still attracts many pilgrims.

On Akbar's reorganisation of the empire in the 16th century, Gorakhpur gave its name to one of the five Sarkars ( administrative units ) in the province of Awadh.

Today's Gorakhnath Math, centered at in eastern Uttar Pradesh ( also eponymous from the saint ), is a religious institution that runs two Gorakhnath temples, one in Nepal in the district of Gorkha ( another word believed to be derived from Baba Gorakhnath ), and the other a little south of Gorakhpur.

During the Mughal period in 1680 Aurangzeb sent one Qazi Khalil-ur-Rahman as the chakledar ( holder of the tract ) of Gorakhpur probably to get the regular payment of revenue from the local chiefs.

An article in the Gulf Times revealed a major sex trade in mostly Nepalese boys who were lured to India and sold to brothels in Mumbai, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Lucknow and Gorakhpur.

* Gorakhpur Junction station is going to have a platform that would be 1. 3 km long and that would then be the longest platform in the world.

It is well connected with metro and major cities of India like Bilaspur, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bhubaneswar, Bangalore, Vishakhapatnam, Vijaywada, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Patna, Amritsar, Nagpur, Gorakhpur, Pune, Raipur, Cuttack, Puri, Rourkela, Durg, Ajmer, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Jammu, etc.

Looking north from the plains of India, most 8, 000-metre peaks are obscured by nearer mountains, but in clear weather Dhaulagiri is conspicuous from northern Bihar and as far south as Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.

The acquisition of the Nawab of Awadh's lands by the British East India Company brought the region of Gorakhpur into the close proximity of the raja of Palpa – the last remaining independent town within the Gorkhali heartlands.

Here too, Gorkhali spoiling attacks forced the General to fall back to Gorakhpur.

A plaque commemorating Premchand at the hut where he resided in Gorakhpur from 1916 to 1921.

He became the Assistant Master at the Normal High School, Gorakhpur.

At Gorakhpur, he developed a friendship with the bookseller Buddhi Lal, who allowed him to borrow novels for reading, in exchange for selling exam cram books at the school.

After quitting his job, Premchand left Gorakhpur for Benares on 18 March 1921, and decided to focus on his literary career.

In 1801 he obtained from the Nawab of Oudh the cession of Rohilkhand, the lower Doab, and the Gorakhpur Division, thus enclosing Awadh on all sides except the north.

John George arranged for the Pindari leaders and their families to settle in northern India at Gorakhpur with pensions and land.

Smaller numbers of Tharu reside in the adjacent Indian districts Champaran of Bihar state ; Gorakhpur, Basti and Gonda of Uttar Pradesh state ; and Nainital, Uttarakhand state.

Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College, ( MMMEC ), is a state funded autonomous engineering institute located in the city of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Malaviya's wooded acreages, a mere seven kilometers away from the holy city of Gorakhpur, provide the perfect element for the perfect engineer.