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About Shergarh
Shergarh is a town and a nagar panchayat in Bareilly district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is a small town known for rice and sugarcane.
From the Wikipedia article Shergarh, Uttar Pradesh (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
History
Shergarh was originally called Kabar, and it was alternately a stronghold of the Katehria Rajputs and the Delhi Sultanate. Very little remains of the earliest periods of settlement. When Alexander Cunningham visited the site in 1863, all he found was a few coins from the 9th and 10th centuries and two small figurines. One was badly damaged and could not be identified, but the other was identified as Durga slaying the demon Mahishasura. According to tradition, Kabar first came under Muslim rule in 1313, under Alauddin Khalji; however, Amir Khusrau wrote that Kabar was first conquered by Jalal ud-Din Khalji in 1290. According to Amir Khusrau, the town was reconquered by the Hindus shortly after, but were then driven out by Jalal ud-Din's nephew. The Katehrias captured Kabar during the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq in the late 1300s, and it remained a stronghold of theirs until the 1500s.
In the 16th century, Sher Shah Suri decisively conquered Kabar and drove out the Katehrias. He built the Shergarh Fort to the east of Kabar, and the modern town grew up around this fort. The Khawas Tal tank, on the south side of Shergarh, is named after Khawas Khan, one of Sher Shah's generals.
From the History section of Shergarh, Uttar Pradesh on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Bareilly Air Force Station (BEK) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 27 km away.
- Shīshgarh 10 km northwest, about 10 min by car
- Deoraniān 11 km east, about 11 min by car
- Shāhi 12 km southwest, about 12 min by car
- Richha 16 km east, about 16 min by car
- Baheri 19 km northeast, about 19 min by car
- Milak 20 km west, about 20 min by car
- Bareilly 32 km south, about 32 min by car
- Rudrapur 37 km north, about 37 min by car
- Morādābād 61 km west, about 1 h by car
- Haldwani 65 km north, about 1 h by car
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