Sherkot is a city and Municipal board in the Bijnor of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

[2] Under the reign of Akbar, it was the main town of the pargana region and was attacked in 1805 by Muhammad Amir Khan, a Pathan invader.

Sherkot Town in the Dhampur Assembly constituency of western Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor districtis, is called the ‘Brush Nagari’ of India.

The brush works is major earning livelihood of people of town except some individual small agriculture.

Sherkot town has around 600 small-scale and cottage industry units that produce an estimated 70 per cent of the painting and drawing brushes in India.

Most of the Indian brushes are produced in Sherkot, Uttar Pradesh (also known as the ‘brush capital of India’), the supply chain extends to Rajasthan, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal etc.

The Indian census of 2011[7] showed that Sherkot had a population of 62,226 with males constituting 52% and females 48%.