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==History== Jajmau is one of the oldest city near Ganges River.It is home to most of the biggest leather industries in India generating 1500cr of revenues every year. While coming from Lucknow from the new Ganges bridge you can see the old "Jinnaton ki Masjid" on top of the hill. It resembles the Taj Mahal due to its architecture and white colour. Going down the side of the hill opposite to the river is a settlement for nearly half a million people mostly involved in leather industry. Going further down from the uphill there is the famous shrine of Hazrat Makhdoom Shah Ala based on which the areas is named as Makhdoom Nagar. Feroze Shah Tughlaq built the tomb of this famous Sufi saint in 1358. A mosque built by Kulich Khan in 1679 also stands here. Also in the shrine there are two ancient carved inscribed stone tablets grafted in wall which are in Arabic and inform that Sultan Feroze Shah Tughlaq had got built the building of the shrine i.e Mazar of Hazrat Qazi Alaulhaq Waddeen Yusuf in the year 761 Hijri,and the Masjid(mosque)inside the Dargah campus was completed in 762 Hijri. Every Thursday lots of people belonging to every religion assemble in the dargah sharif to seek blessings for redressal of their grievances.The issueless persons and those having no male issue get benefited most.The ASI had copied the stone inscriptions of dargah MAKHDOOM Shah Ala of years 761 & 762 Hijri and also from Dargah DADAMIYAN(HazratQazi SirajulHaq Waddeen the father of Makhdoom Aala)a contemporary of Sultan Qutbuddeen Aibak(1192 AD to 1210 AD) of year 696 Hijri in the campus Eidgaah and published the same with their findings in their book EPIGRAPHIA INDICA-- Arabic & Persian Supplement 1964 with special reference to the Farman of Firoz Tuglaq with the Saint's direct descendant Mr.Qazi Haseen Ahmed Farooqi a leading advocate of High Court Allahabad & Kanpur on page no.10.Their descriptions are also found in many older books of History including Tareekhe Zila Kanpur (1876 AD),Kanpur Gazetteer 1909 and Kanpur ka Itihas Page 306 to 310.Mr.Qazi Haseen Ahmed is succeeded by his sons Qazi Sabeeh Ahmed Advocate & Wajih Ahmed S.P. in U.P.Police. The archaeological site of Jajmau is a huge mound sitated on the banks of [[Ganges]] river, known as the ''Jajmau ka tila''.<ref name="toi1">{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kanpur/Enter-the-Kushan-period-via-Jajmau/articleshow/5023618.cms|title=Enter the Kushan period via Jajmau|date=17 September 2009|publisher=[[The Times of India]]|accessdate=5 May 2010}}</ref> Copper hoard artefacts and [[Painted Grey Ware]] (PGW) sherds were found from the surface deposits of this mound. In 1956, at the time of the construction of the national highway and Jajamu bridge, remains of an ancient settlement were discovered here. Excavations were carried out by the [[Archaeological Survey of India]] and the Uttar Pradesh State Archaeology Department in 1956-58 and 1973-78. During the excavations carried out in 1977-78, an ivory sealwith ''Vasalas'' inscribed in [[Brahmi]] was found. A historian, Girish Chandra Singh, claimed that ''Vasalas'' is an epithet of [[Chandragupta Maurya]].<ref name="dna">{{cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_artefacts-of-pre-muaryan-times-discovered-at-jajmau_1361609|title=Artefacts of pre-Muaryan times discovered at Jajmau|date=21 March 2010|publisher=[[DNA (newspaper)|DNA]]|accessdate=5 May 2010}}</ref> In 2006, during widening of the national national highway, a salvage operation was started to document and study the archaeological remains embedded within a portion of the mound by a team of archaeologists led by Ram Vinay under the direction of Uttar Pradesh State Archaeological Directorate. During the excavation, the Black and Red Wares were discovered here below the PGW layer. Significant archaeological findings from this site during this excavation include a hoard of silver punch-marked coins in a [[Northern Black Polished Ware|NBPW]] vase with a lustrous polish, a baked terracotta dabber bearing Brahmi inscription of c. 3rd&ndash;2nd century BCE and structures made of mud and baked bricks of Mauryan and pre-Mauryan period. The symbols of sun, crescent, tree with in a vedika and hill are found in these coins. The inscription on the terracotta dabber in Brahmi is in two lines. The first line has been deciphered as ''bha di ke'' (''Bhadrike'') and a single letter, ''ma'' in dots is inscribed below it. Radiocarbon dates found by the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany for the charcoal samples collected from this deposit during this excavation, cultural material and stratigraphy suggest that this part of the mound was settled from c. 1300-1200 BCE.