Sargadwari

Sargadwari lies on the plain of Rohilkhand near Budaun, a frontier post of the Delhi sultans on the Sot river, about 27 kilometres north of the Ganges. Budaun had been a seat of Rathore chiefs long before the sultans came. In 1346-47 Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq led an expedition through this Ganges country and reached Sargadwari itself.

Under the Mughals the district remained a northern frontier station. In the eighteenth century Rohilla Afghan settlers, drawn into the Katehar country to suppress Rajput risings, gave the plain the name Rohilkhand. In 1773 Marathas crossed the Ganges at Ramghat near Budaun and threatened the Rohillas, who were crushed the next year in the Rohilla War by the Nawab of Awadh with British help.