page_title: Khurja
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caption_attribution_description: Khurja Pottery is traditional ceramic pottery art with relief work using earth colours like orange, brown and terracotta worked on to a white background, giving them a rich artistic appearance. The highly creative and artistic products include decorative items tableware, utensils, and the like, rich in both composition and quality. Khurja city is now famous for its Khurja Pottery and ceramics. Khurja supplies a large portion of the ceramics used in the country, hence it is sometimes called The Ceramics City. The history of Khurja Pottery goes back to around 14th century, when some retreating (wounded) soldiers from Timur's army decided to stay back. Most of these soldiers were potters and they brought their art of pottery with them. Starting with red clay pottery they moved on to blue glaze and on red clay articles with engobe of white clay, painting floral designs with cupric oxide and applying a soft glaze containing glass and borax etc. During World War II, ban was imposed on various metals for making household utensils and import of ceramic goods was drastically curtailed. To meet the demand of ceramic wares mainly for war hospitals, the Government of Uttar Pradesh established a ceramic unit. After the war, the factory was closed down in 1946 due to lack of demand of its products. The factory was equipped with three small kilns, two chimneys and three ball mills. The Government of Uttar Pradesh made a thoughtful consideration for the utilization of the available machinery, other capital items and instead of closing it down, converted into a Pottery Development Centre. It was the first pottery related to common facilities Center in the country where entrepreneurs were provided the facilities for firing their green wares in the Government kilns.
context_page_description: Khurja is a city in the Bulandshahr district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated around 85 km from Delhi. Khurja supplies a large portion of the ceramics used in the country, hence it is sometimes called The Ceramics City. The town is also famous for its special sweet, known as "khurchan".
  The principal inhabitants of Khurja are the Pashtuns, maninly members from the Kheshgi Dynasty of Timur's army.
  The name Khurja is derived from the Urdu word kharija meaning, cancelled or condemned, as the revenue for this town was waived because this land included many swamps and the agricultural possibilities were rare.
  Khurja is now famous for its ceramics. With over 500 factories producing ceramic works, its skyline is dotted with chimneys.
context_section_description: Khurja is a city (and a municipal board) in the Bulandshahr district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated around 85 km from Delhi. Khurja supplies a large portion of the ceramics used in the country, hence it is sometimes called The Ceramics City. The town is also famous for its special sweet, known as "khurchan".
  The principal inhabitants of Khurja are the Pashtuns, maninly members from the Kheshgi Dynasty of Timur's army.
  The name Khurja is derived from the Urdu word kharija meaning, cancelled or condemned, as the revenue for this town was waived because this land included many swamps and the agricultural possibilities were rare.
  Khurja is now famous for its ceramics. With over 500 factories producing ceramic works, its skyline is dotted with chimneys.
caption: Khurja pottery
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