Shahjahanpur

Shahjahanpur was founded in the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan by the brothers Diler Khan and Bahadur Khan. Their father Darya Khan had come from Kandahar and served in Jahangir's army. In 1647 Shah Jahan rewarded Diler Khan with seventeen villages and permission to build a fort after the suppression of the Katehriya Rajputs. Bahadur Khan brought Afghan settlers to the new town, which grew into a centre of the surrounding country.