Moradabad- The City of Brass
Moradabad was originally called Chaupala. It was a stronghold of the Katehria Rajputs, who had built a mud-brick fort overlooking the Ganges. Little remains of the settlement from this period, except for some monuments to widows of the Katehria chieftains. Under the Mughal Empire , Chaupala was the seat of a pargana ; it is mentioned in the Ain-i-Akbari as being part of the sarkar of Sambhal . It produced a revenue of 1,340,812 dams for the imperial treasury and it provided a force of 500 infantry and 100 cavalry to the Mughal army. The modern city of Moradabad was founded by Rustam Khan Dakhani , Mughal governor of Sambhal, during the reign of Shah Jahan . In 1624, Raja Ramsukh, leader of the Katehrias, had rebelled and invaded the Tarai region. The raja of Kumaon had complained to Shah Jahan, who then sent Rustam Khan to deal with the disturbance. Rustam Khan did so "with gr...