Kantit

Kantit lies near Vindhyachal and the Ganges, where the northern plain meets the Vindhya hills. Its shrine honours the Sufi Ismail Chishti, remembered as a nephew of Mu'in al-Din Chishti of Ajmer. The rulers of the neighbouring Bijaipur-Kantit estate traced their ancestry to the Gahadavalas, the dynasty that had ruled Kannauj and Varanasi. The shrine and the old landed estate recall different strands of the region's history.