Shahjahanpur, Meerut

Shahjahanpur is a town situated in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, and about 30 kilometres from the district headquarters at Meerut. there population of 14,944, of which the majority are Muslim. There are also about 600 households of Hindus in the village, mainly belonging to the Jatav caste.

The village is named after the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan, and was said to have been founded by Mohammed Abbas Khan, a Dilazak Pashtun. Abbas Khan was granted an estate by the Mughal Emperor, who named the village is in his honour. A significant portion of the villages’s population still belongs to the Dilazak tribe. Other Muslim groups include the .^[1]

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v t Populated places in Meerut district
Cities and towns	Aminagar Urf Bhurbaral Bahsuma Daurala Hastinapur Karnawal Kharkhoda Kithaur Lala Mohammadpur Lawar Mawana Meerut Mohiuddinpur Parikshitgarh Partapur Phalauda Sardhana Sewalkhas Tikri
Villages	Abdullapur Aghera Ajrara Bahadarpur Bhoopgarhi Bhopgarh Dabthla Fatehapur Narayan Hajipur Harra Incholi Jai Jani Khurd Kaland Kashyap Colony Khatik Mohalla Khiwai Machhra Niloha Pabarsa Palra Rali Chauhan Shahjahanpur