Surat city of India
Short brief history of Surat city of India
Surat is a city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is also administrative capital of the Surat district.
Surat is mentioned in the Sanskrit epic, the Mahābhārata, when Lord Krishna stopped there en route from Mathura to Dwarka. According to other later Sanskrit records, the area was ruled by the qutbuddin in 610 CE, and continued to be ruled by Hindu kings until it was captured by one of the generals of Quṭbuddīn Aibak about 1210 CE. The Parsis started to settle there from the 8th century onward, and added greatly to its prosperity, with there having been a thriving sea trade between Iran and Gujarat, owing to the famous Silk Route.
Local Hindu traditions state that the city as we know it today was founded in the last years of the fifteenth century by a Brahman named Gopi, who called it Suryapūr (City of the Sun). Great Kavi Narmad was also born in Surat.
Local Hindu traditions state that the city as we know it today was founded in the last years of the fifteenth century by a Brahman named Gopi, who called it Suryapūr (City of the Sun). Great Kavi Narmad was also born in Surat.
During the reigns of the Mughal emperors AkbarJahāngīr and Shāh Jahān, Surat rose to become a chief commercial city of India, and an imperial mint was established there. When harbor in Khambhat began to silt up toward the end of fifteenth century, Surat eclipsed that city as the major port of western India. At the end of the 16th century, the Portuguese were undisputed masters of the Surat sea trade. There still is a picturesque fortress on the banks of the river built in 1540.
Surat is also home to the royal descendants of the Amejee family which settled in Gujarat. The family were known to have direct lineage to the Mughal emperors, who governed the Manikpur district.
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