Civil Lines, Bareilly

Civil Lines is a Civil Lines commercial street located near the town centre in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located centrally in the city of Bareilly.

Civil Lines
Neighbourhood
Skyline of Civil Lines, Bareilly
Civil Lines Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 28.339817°N 79.422483°E / 28.339817; 79.422483
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh
Metro	Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
Government
• Body	Bareilly Municipal Corporation
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Lok Sabha constituency	Bareilly (Lok Sabha constituency), Uttar Pradesh
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Bareilly City, Bareilly division, Uttar Pradesh
Civic agency	Bareilly Municipal Corporation

The name Civil Lines comes from the time of the British Raj, when the city of Delhi was organized into separate areas where the British Military and Civilian buildings were located. Areas where civilians lived were demarcated as Civil Lines. Later most of the prominent North Indian cities, including Bareilly, adopted this name for their commercial areas.

The civil lines of Bareilly was settled between the old city and the cantonment in the late nineteenth century; only British officers used to live in the area then.[1] Apart from the cantonment, the police lines and the railway station were also located to the south of the civil lines, While the district prison was to its west and the circuit house was situated to its north-east, where several upper class bungalows were built.[1] A few years later, the Company Garden (now Gandhi Udyan) was constructed towards its east.[2]

After independence, the civil lines started expanding in the northeast direction, and it was at this time, that a residential colony named Rampur Garden started to settle on this side.[3] Most of the government offices in Bareilly are located in the Civil Lines or Rampur Garden.[3]