Chandpur

Chandpur lies in the Bijnor country of Rohilkhand, on the plain between the upper Ganges and the foot of the Himalayan hills. Timur ravaged this district in 1399, and in Akbar's time it was part of the Mughal Empire. In the early eighteenth century Rohilla Pashtuns made themselves independent here. Around 1748 their chief Ali Muhammad Khan began annexing the Bijnor country, and the northern districts came under Najib Khan, later titled Najib-ud-daula, who fought beside Ahmad Shah Abdali at Panipat. The Rohilla War of 1774 ended with Bijnor in the hands of the nawab of Awadh, who ceded the whole of Rohilkhand to the East India Company in 1801. Pindari raiders occupied Chandpur in 1805.