Shahjahanpur () is a municipal corporation, town and district headquarters of Shahjahanpur District in Uttar Pradesh, India. The city is between Bareilly and Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh.

History

Shahjahanpur was established by

Dilir Khan Jalal Khan Daudzai, known by his title Diler Khan, was a Mughal general who served under Aurangzeb and was the governor of Awadh. He was the son of Nawab Darya Khan Daudzai, a mansabdar of Pashtun Afghan ethnicity, who had migrated to India in 16 ...

and Bahadar Khan, sons of Dariya Khan, a soldier in army of the Mughal emperor

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. Dariya Khan was originally from Kandahar, in modern-day Afghanistan. Both Dilir Khan and Bahadar Khan were dignitaries in the regime of

Shah Jahan Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), better known by his regnal name Shah Jahan I (; ), was the fifth emperor of the Mughal Empire, reigning from January 1628 until July 1658. Under his emperorship, the Mugha ...

. Pleased with the services of Dilir Khan, Shah Jahan gave him 17 villages with the permission to construct a fort in 1647, following the suppression of the rebellious Katheria Rajputs. The area was then settled by Afghans, brought by Bahadar Khan following one of his campaigns. On 9 August 1925, the Indian freedom fighters Ram Prasad Bismil,

Ashfaqulla Khan Ashfaqulla Khan (22 October 1900 – 19 December 1927) was an Indian independence activist in the Indian independence movement and co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association. Early life Khan was born in the Shahjahanpur district of th ...

, Chandrashekhar Azad and Rajendra Lahiri conducted a

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of government funds near Kakori railway station. Both Bismil and Khan were born in Shahjahanpur.

Geography

Shahjahanpur is located at . It has an average elevation of 194 metres (600 feet). It is situated at the junction of two river.

Climate

Demographics

As per provisional data of 2011 census, Shahjahanpur urban agglomeration had a population of 346,103, out of which males were 183,087 and females were 163,016. The literacy rate was 69.81 per cent.

Transport

Shahjahanpur is well-connected with major towns and cities in Uttar Pradesh through road and rail network.

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links Shahjahanpur with Bareilly and Lucknow. A spur route National Highway 731 too passes through Shahjahanpur, linking it to the eastern UP town of Jaunpur. Shahjahanpur railway station lies on Lucknow–Moradabad line of Indian Railways. Several through trains from Lucknow to Delhi pass through Shahjahanpur station.

Cultural heritage

Over the years, the Shahjahanpur gharana contributed eminent sarod players such as Enayat Ali (1883 - 1915), Ustad Murad Ali Khan, Ustad Mohammed Ameer Khan, Pandit Radhika Mohan Moitra and Pandit

Buddhadev Das Gupta Buddhadev Das Gupta (1 February 1933 – 15 January 2018) was an Indian classical musician who played the sarod. He used to reside in Kolkata, India. He was one of the artists featured in Nimbus Records' ''The Raga Guide''. Early life and tr ...

. Present Sarod legend, Amjad Ali Khan also belongs to Shahjahanpur gharana.

Notable people

Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri Abu Salmān Shahjahānpūri (30 January 1940 – 2 February 2021; ur, ) was a Pakistani scholar, researcher and historian. He was regarded as an authority in the historical and political movements of the Indian subcontinent. He was an alumnus ...

(Pakistani Islamic Scholar) *

Dil Shahjahanpuri Dil Shahjahanpuri (1875-1959),The Encyclopaedic dictionary of Urdu literature (2007) by Abida Samiuddin p.374 was the takhallus of Zameer Hasan Khan, the renowned Urdu ghazal writer, who was born in Shahjahanpur, North Western Provinces, British ...

(Urdu Ghazal Writer) * Madan Shahjahanpuri (Indian Muslim Theologian) * Ram Prasad Bismil (Freedom Fighter) *

(Freedom Fighter) *

Roshan Singh Thakur Roshan Singh (22 January 1892 — 19 December 1927) was an Indian revolutionary, born in the village of Nabada in Shahjahanpur district, Uttar Pradesh in A kshatriya Rajput family, who was sentenced in the Bareilly shooting case during ...

(Freedom Fighter) *

Prem Krishna Khanna Prem Kishan Khanna (2 January 1894 – 3 August 1993) was an active member of the Hindustan Republican Association from Shahjahanpur U.P. Khanna was a contractorKakori Shaheed Smriti page 89 for Indian Railways. He was a close associate of ...

(Freedom Fighter) * Ram Chandra (Babuji) (Indian Spiritual Leader) * Rajpal Yadav (Film Actor) *

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(Film Actor) *

Hira Thind Hira Thind is a Punjabi singer and theatre actor. He is best known for his songs like Speciality and Mere Jinna Pyaar. He is also known for his works in theatre. Early life Thind was born and brought up in Powayan, Shahjahanpur district in Utt ...

(Punjabi singer) *

Jitin Prasada Jitin Prasada (born 29 November 1973) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. He was appointed Cabinet Minister by the Government of Uttar Pradesh on 26 September 2021. Earlier, he has been the former Minister of State for Human Resource De ...

(Former Central Government Cabinet Minister) *

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(Movie Director) * Jitendra Prasada (Former M.P.) *

Naik Jadu Nath Singh Jadunath Singh (1916 –1948) was an Indian Army soldier who was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration for his actions in an engagement during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Singh was enlisted i ...

(Param Vir Chakra) *

Mithlesh Kumar Mithlesh Kumar is an Indian politician and a former member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Shahjahanpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party (SP) political party. Shahjahanpur constituency wa ...

(Former member of parliament) *

Krishna Raj Krishna Raj (born 22 February 1967) is an Indian politician and having affiliations with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who is the former Union Minister of State of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, India. She was elected to Uttar Pradesh assembly ...

(Former MP) *

Suresh Kumar Khanna Suresh Kumar Khanna (born 6 May 1953) is an Indian politician and a member of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh & 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly in India. Currently he is serving as Cabinet Min ...

(UP Government Cabinet Minister) *

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(Former Minister of UP) *

Roshan Lal Verma Roshan Lal Verma is an Indian politician and a member of the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh in India. He represents the Tilhar (Assembly constituency), Tilhar constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Samajwadi Party ...

(MLA Tilhar) *

Sharad Vir Singh Sharad Vir Singh is an Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Jalalabad constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party. Political career Singh was ele ...

(MLA Jalalabad) *

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(MLA Tilhar)

Education

Gandhi Faiz-E-Aam College Gandhi Faiz-E-Aam (Post Graduate) College, Shahjahanpur is a Multi-streamed college in India. This College was established in 1947 by Maulana Fazl-Ur-Rahman Khan. Normally it is famous by its abbreviation G. F. College. It is post graduate coll ...

Swami Shukdevanand Post Graduate College S.S.P.G. College (Full name: Swami Shukdevanand Post Graduate College) is a college in Shahjahanpur district Shahjahanpur district is a districts of Uttar Pradesh India. It is a part of Bareilly division. It was established in 1813 by the ...

*State medical college shahjahanpur(http://www.smcshah.in) *varun arjun medical college shahjahanpur(https://www.vamcrh.com/)

References

{{Bareilly division topics Cities and towns in Shahjahanpur district Cities in Uttar Pradesh