Sheikhupur, Badaun

Sheikhupur still exists on the map and treasures the memories of its glorious past which helped to shape the history of Mughal India.

Access to Sheikhupur is easy as a railway line passes through it apart from katcha (unmetalled) and pucca (metalled) roads from Badaun.

His grandson Nawab Qutubuddin Koka was the foster brother and private secretary of Emperor Jahangir and later governor of Bengal in the Mughal Empire.

[3] Nawab Qutbuddin Koka's second son Shaikh Ibrahim Ali Farooqui titled Kishwar Khan - aka Nawab Mohtashim Khan was granted by emperor Jahangir a jagir of 4,000 bighas of land in Badaun District (United Provinces) where he built a small fort named Sheikhupur after Jahangir, who was caned Sheikhu-baba in his childhood.

Nawab Mohtashim Khan and Parwar Khanum's grand mausoleum still stands in Sheikhupur to this day housing their graves.

Taken in the late-1800s, this photo shows the visit of James Meston, 1st Baron Meston, to Nawab Abdul-Ghaffar Khan Bahadur and his family in Sheikhupur