Shahabad

Shahabad lies in the Rohilkhand plain near Rampur, a region long associated with the Rohilla Afghans. An old palace of the Rampur nawabs stands in the town. After the Rohillas were defeated by Awadh and the East India Company in 1774, Faizullah Khan established the state of Rampur under British protection. He founded its new fort and capital the following year, making the surrounding country part of a smaller surviving Rohilla state.