Sambhal

Sambhal lies east of the upper Ganges in northern India. It was a centre of power under the Delhi sultans and later the Mughals. Sikandar Lodi made it one of his seats of government in the late fifteenth century. After Babur established Mughal rule, his son Humayun held authority at Sambhal. The town's congregational mosque was built in 1526 by Mir Hindu Beg, a noble associated with Babur and Humayun. Under Akbar, Sambhal was the seat of a sarkar, an administrative district within the province of Delhi. Its position connected the institutions of successive courts with the agricultural country and settlements around it. The administrative centre later shifted to Moradabad, while Sambhal remained a town in a region whose political allegiances changed with the decline of Mughal power.