Sultanpur

Sultanpur lies on the Gomti River in the Awadh country of northern India. The older town stood on the river's left bank and was mentioned by Muslim historians as a site of battles. Local accounts associate its name with the Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khalji, though details of its early history are intertwined with legend.

The agricultural plains of Awadh supported settlements and the collection of land revenue. In the eighteenth century the nawabs of Awadh built a regional state as Mughal central power weakened. A British military station later developed on the opposite bank of the Gomti, while old Sultanpur declined.