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The term "Gurgaon" is a distorted form of the original "Guru-gram", by which the area covered by the modern district of Gurgaon was referred to during the Mahabharata times. The villages of the district were presented to Guru Dronacharya by his students, the Pandavas as gurudakshina, after the latter finished their study at the ashram of the former. This legendary tale gives us an indication that a civilization has been in existence here since the ancient time. There exists a tank of Guru Dronacharya even today, on the west side of the Railway Road, which provides an inkling about the ancient past of the region. Moreover, there is a temple of Sheetla Mata in the actual village of Gurgaon, about one and a half km away from the modern city, which is an attraction for a large number of devotees from adjoining areas.
We do not find a consistent history of Gurgaon on its own, and its boundaries were always subject to change.
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During the time of Mughal India, its areas were merged with subas of Delhi and Agra, whereas after the decline of the Mughal empire, the British rule took control over a greater part of it through the treaty of Surji Arjungaon with Sindhia. The British divided the district into several parganas, which were used for granting jagirs to various chieftains for their loyalty and military support to the colonial rule.
After the first independence movement in 1857, Gurgaon ceased to be a part of the North Western Provinces and it was transferred to Punjab. The district witnessed several changes in its composition and borderlines during the British India and even in independent India until 1979 when it was divided to form two separate districts of Haryana, namely Gurgaon and Faridabad.
The existence of Delhi, the capital of India, has changed the destiny of Gurgaon during the early 1990s. The large influx of people from all across the country to the national capital has put extreme pressure on the housing authorities, as there was acute shortage of land and other resources for further development. As a result, they started to look out for land areas adjoining the city borderlines. Gurgaon forms a natural choice as it was very close to the capital region and has a vast stretch of farming land waiting for extensive development projects.
The Haryana government took special measures to pursue an ambitious plan of developing these fallow lands for residential and commercial constructions. Soon Gurgaon emerged as the hottest destination for manufacturing and service based companies, which thronged the city from across the globe and the foreign investment started coming in large volumes. Today Gurgaon properties are the most sought after properties all across Delhi NCRs despite the incredible buoyancy in their capital and rental values in recent years.
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