Sardhana is a city and a municipal board in Meerut district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

[2] In the 19th century, Sardhana was the capital of the Begum Samru, born as Farzana Zebunisa in 1751, and considered to be the only Catholic ruler in India.

She married in her early teens, a mercenary soldier Walter Reinhardt Sombre of Luxembourg, who was operating in India.

[3] She also obtained from the Holy See, the promotion of Father Giulio Cesare, one of the members of the Agra Mission, to the episcopal dignity, and later Pope Gregory XVI wrote to her, and sent her tokens of his paternal approbation.

There is called a mahapanchayat (great council) of 40 villages on 29 September 2013 to protest against the Uttar Pradesh government charging the local BJP MLA Sangeet Singh Som under the stringent National Security Act at Khera.

The situation turned tense when a rumour spread that a youth injured in police action had died.