Shahjahanpur () is a

municipal corporation A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs. The term can also be used to describe municipally ...

, town and district headquarters of

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 British Government. Previously it was a part of district Bareilly. Geographically the main town is Shahjahanpur w ...

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. The city is between

Bareilly Bareilly () is a city in Bareilly district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is among the largest metropolises in Western Uttar Pradesh and is the centre of the Bareilly division as well as the historical region of Rohilkhand. The c ...

and

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

, 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

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Jahangir. Dariya Khan was originally from

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, in modern-day

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. Both Dilir Khan and Bahadar Khan were dignitaries in the regime of Shah Jahan. Pleased with the services of Dilir Khan, Shah Jahan gave him 17 villages with the permission to construct a

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in 1647, following the suppression of the rebellious Katheria

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s. 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 Ram Prasad Bismil ( Hindi: राम प्रसाद "बिस्मिल") (11 June 1897 — 19 December 1927) was an Indian poet, writer, revolutionary and an Indian freedom fighter who participated in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, a ...

, Ashfaqulla Khan,

Chandrashekhar Azad Chandra Shekhar Tiwari ( (23 July 1906 – 27 February 1931), popularly known as Chandra Shekhar Azad, was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican ...

and

Rajendra Lahiri Rajendra Nath Lahiri (29 June 1901 — 17 December 1927), known simply as Rajendra Lahiri, was an Indian revolutionary, who was a mastermind behind the Kakori conspiracy and Dakshineshwar bombing. He was active member of Hindustan Republican As ...

conducted a robbery of government funds near

Kakori Kakori is a town and a nagar panchayat in Lucknow district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, 14 km north of Lucknow. Kakori was a centre Urdu poetry, literature and the Qadiriya Qalandari Sufi order. On 9 August 1925 Indian revolution ...

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. National Highway 30 links Shahjahanpur with

and

. A spur route National Highway 731 too passes through Shahjahanpur, linking it to the eastern UP town of Jaunpur.

Shahjahanpur railway station Shahjahanpur Junction Railway Station (station code SPN) is a main railway station in Shahjahanpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 ...

lies on

Lucknow–Moradabad line The Lucknow–Moradabad line (also known as Lucknow–Moradabad main line) is a railway line connecting Lucknow and railway stations, both in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The line is under the administrative jurisdiction of Northern Rai ...

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. Several through trains from Lucknow to

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

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 Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (born 9 October 1945) is an Indian classical ''sarod'' player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans. Khan was born into a classical musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s. He was awar ...

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 (Urdu Ghazal Writer) * Madan Shahjahanpuri (Indian Muslim Theologian) *

(Freedom Fighter) * Ashfaqulla Khan (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) Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur (1899-1983), also known as Babuji, was a yogi from Uttar Pradesh in northern India. He spent most of his life developing a method of Raja Yoga meditation called Sahaj Marg. He founded an organization called Shri Ram Ch ...

(Indian Spiritual Leader) *

Rajpal Yadav Rajpal Yadav (born 16 March 1971) is an Indian actor which works in Hindi, Punjabi Marathi, Telugu and one Gujarati and one Bengali and one avadhi, comedian and film maker known for his work in Indian Film industry. His breakthrough came in ...

(Film Actor) *

Alok Pandey Alok Pandey (born 30 April 1988) is an Indian actor and model who is best known for playing MS Dhoni’s best friend in the former Indian Cricket Team captain’s biopic '' M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story''”, a negative role with John Abraham ...

(Film Actor) * Hira Thind (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) *

Vivek Agnihotri Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (born 10 November 1973) is an Indian film director, film producer, screenwriter and author who works in Hindi cinema. , he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification and a cultural repr ...

(Movie Director) *

Jitendra Prasada Jitendra Prasada (12 November 1938 – 16 January 2001) was an Indian politician and a former vice-president of the Indian National Congress. He was also the political advisor to two prime ministers of India, Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and P. V. Na ...

(Former M.P.) * Naik Jadu Nath Singh (Param Vir Chakra) * Mithlesh Kumar (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 (UP Government Cabinet Minister) * Rammurti Singh Verma (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 (MLA Jalalabad) * Salona Kushwaha (MLA Tilhar)

Education

* Gandhi Faiz-E-Aam College * Swami Shukdevanand Post Graduate College *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